El Nuevo Mundo store in 2008, Historic center of Mexico CityBack side of Mexico City store
El Nuevo Mundo is a Mexican chain of 11 department stores dating back to its first store opened in 1877 in Mexico City.
History
During the mid-1800s in Mexico City, small shops, known as cajones (Spanish: boxes, trunks, drawers), began to appear, selling quality and fashionable clothes and fabrics to the growing Mexican high-end market, which for customers had prior to then meant either traveling to Europe or waiting months for ships from the Old World to arrive with advertised goods. In 1877 the Spaniard Don Bernardo García Robes y Ordoñez founded El Cajón de El Nuevo MundoSpanish: The Trunk/Box/Drawer of The New World on the corner of Capuchinas and 1st Monterilla, today Venustiano Carranza and 5 de Febrero streets, in the Historic center of Mexico City. The store sold high-quality fabrics, hats and millinery, women's clothing and perfumes imported from Europe, since the Mexican manufacturing industry was just beginning.[1][2]
In 1910, the year that the Mexican revolution began, the company that became El Nuevo Mundo Mexico S.A. was incorporated. In 1949 the company opened a branch in Guadalajara, branded Almacenes Colón, but changed in 1963 to El Nuevo Mundo Guadalajara. In 1956 it opened a branch in Monterrey on Padre Mier Street which was expanded over time to the current area of 10,000 square meters. [1]
Products
Product lines include apparel and footwear for men, women and children, fabrics, curtains, decoration, household items, home appliances, and haberdashery.[1][3]
