Mexican retailing company
Inside Sanborns restaurant and department store, in the Casa de los Azulejos , Historic center of Mexico City
The freestanding Sears Mexico store on Avenida Juárez in the Historic center of Mexico City
Mixup music store
DAX Plaza Río Tijuana , 2023
SFA Polanco (opened 2010, closed 2020) at Plaza Carso Mexico City 2015
Grupo Sanborns is a retailing arm of the Carlos Slim -run Grupo Carso that includes the namesake Sanborns restaurant and junior department store chain, Mixup music stores, iShop Apple /electronics stores, Sears department stores in Mexico, and until October 2023, Mexico's sole Saks Fifth Avenue store.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
As of 2021 the group sales were 53 billion Mexican pesos , equivalent to around US$2.6 billion and it operated in 62 metropolitan areas and towns across the country with formats including:
197 Sanborns restaurant-and-retail stores and Sanborns Cafés (stand-alone restaurants)
141 Mixup (music/video) and iShop (official Apple reseller) stores (usually located next to each other)
97 Sears full-line, mid-range department stores
It is headed up by Patricio Slim Domit, son of Carlos Slim .[6]
Divisions
As of end of 2020 there are the following divisions:[7]
Sears
Sanborns, see below
iShopMixup
Other formats, see below
Sanborns division
The Sanborns division as of December 2020 included:[7]
Two shopping malls, Plaza Loreto and Plaza Inbursa
One Sears store in El Salvador
ClaroShop e-commerce portal
Formerly included
3 Boutiques
three Sanborns stores in Central America (now closed)
Sanborns
iShop
A chain of consumer electronics stores focusing on Apple computers, smartphones and accessories. Certified Apple Premium reseller.[8]
Mixup
A chain of music stores across Mexico, often as joint Mixup/iShop stores.
Sears Mexico
DAX
Defunct group businesses
Saks Fifth Avenue
From 2007 until 2023, the group operated the only Saks Fifth Avenue stores in Mexico, both in Mexico City , one at Plaza Carso mall in Nuevo Polanco from 2010 to 2020, the other at Centro Santa Fe from 2007 to 2023.[1] Deciding not to renew its Saks franchise, the group is to convert it to a Sears .[9]
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Restaurants
National chains Baja California Baja California Sur Jalisco Mexico City Nuevo León Oaxaca Quintana Roo
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