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Liverpool (store)
El Puerto de Liverpool (officially ''S.A.B. de Liverpool, S.A.B. de C.V.'') is a Mexican company that consists of commercial, financial, and real estate operations. The commercial area operates the department store chains Liverpool and Suburbia, freestanding retail stores of multiple fashion brands, and the Arco Norte logistics center, under construction. The financial group offers insurance as well as credit to customers of the two department store chains. The real estate group operates shopping malls, all but one ( Perisur) branded '' Galerías''. El Puerto de Liverpool held (as of December 2023) a US$246 million, 9.745% stake in U.S. retailer Nordstrom, and a 50% stake in El Salvador-based Unicomer Group, which operates retail chains in 26 Latin American countries. On December 23, 2024, it was announced that the company plans to increase its stake in Nordstrom to 49.9% as part of the American department store's plans to be taken private. The Group's headquarters are in Sant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centro (Mexico City)
The historic center of Mexico City (), also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on the Zócalo (or main plaza) and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being west to the Mexico City Alameda Central, Alameda Central. The Zocalo is the largest plaza in Latin America. It can hold up to nearly 100,000 people. This section of the capital lies in the municipal borough of Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Cuauhtémoc, has just over nine km2 and occupies 668 blocks. It contains 9,000 buildings, 1,550 of which have been declared of historical importance. Most of these historic buildings were constructed between the 16th and 20th centuries. It is divided into two zones for preservation purposes. Zone A encompasses the pre-Hispanic city and its expansion from the Viceroy period until Independence. Zone B covers the areas all other constructions to the end of the 19th century that are considered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williams Sonoma
Williams Sonoma is an American retailer of cookware, appliances, and home furnishings. It is owned by Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and was founded by Chuck Williams (author), Charles E. (Chuck) Williams in 1956. History In 1947, Chuck Williams settled in Sonoma, California, and opened his first shop as a hardware store. In 1953, Williams took his first trip to France, where he quickly fell in love with French kitchenware such as copper cookware, and is quoted as saying, "I knew this was something that wasn't found in America, but thought people would want." Shortly after returning home, he formulated a plan to import French cooking and serving equipment into America and eventually converted his store into a cookware shop in 1956. Thus, Williams Sonoma was founded, selling professional and restaurant-quality kitchenware for home use, leading to founder Chuck Williams being recognized as one of the titans of the American food revolution. After customer requests, Williams relocated the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VISA
Visa most commonly refers to: * Travel visa, a document that allows entry to a foreign country * Visa Inc., a US multinational financial and payment cards company ** Visa Debit card issued by the above company ** Visa Electron, a debit card ** Visa Plus, an interbank network Visa or VISA may also refer to: Places * Vișa, a river in Romania * Sirsa Air Force Station (ICAO code), India * Visa village, Jucu Commune, Cluj County, Romania Science and technology * Vancomycin intermediate-resistant ''Staphylococcus aureus'' or vancomycin-intermediate ''Staphylococcus aureus'', a bacterium * Virtual instrument software architecture, an input/output API used in the test and measurement industry * VISA (gene) (virus induced signaling adaptor) * Visa, a fabric marketed by Milliken & Company Film and television * ''Visa'' (film), a 1983 Malayalam film * " The Visa", a 1993 episode of the television sitcom ''Seinfeld'' Music * ''Visa'' (album), a 2014 album by Vladislav Delay * V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Corte Inglés
El Corte Inglés S.A. is a Spanish department store chain founded in 1940 by Ramón Areces and César Rodríguez. It is the last such remaining in Spain and Portugal, and has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores since 1998. It is the largest department store group in Europe, and the third-largest in the world. History In 1934, the founders Ramón Areces Rodriguez and Cesar Rodriguez Gonzalez bought a tailor's shop (which began in 1890) located on one of Madrid's central streets, '' calle Preciados'', at the corner of ''calle Carmen'' and ''calle Rompelanzas.'' They made it into a limited company. The property where the shop was located had been owned by Julián Gordo Centenera since 1930. The prime location of the property soon attracted the attention of an Asturian businessman, Pepin Fernandez, who was looking to expand a business called ''Sederias Carretas'' which he had started in 1934 with a capital contribution from his cousin Cesar Rodriguez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salinas Y Rocha
Salinas y Rocha (acronym: SYR) was a chain of Mexican department stores primarily selling appliances. The history of the Salinas y Rocha chain dates back to 1906, when 22-year-old Benjamín Ricardo Salinas Westrup, a young entrepreneur from Monterrey, and his brother-in-law Joel Rocha decided to create "Benjamín Salinas y Compañía", manufacturing brass and iron beds and wooden furniture. Due to the Mexican Revolution the factory had to closed but in the 1920s, the company resurfaced. In downtown Monterrey, on Padre Mier Street near the corner of Zaragoza, they open the first Salinas y Rocha store. The strategy was to sell a lot, in small installments, with small profits. A few years later, the firm began its first expansion plan with the manufacturing of mattresses, and some time later, it implemented a new formula in the country: sales on credit: allowing customers to pay for the merchandise in installments. Salinas y Rocha and later the Elektra chain that emerged from it, beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fábricas De Francia
Fábricas de Francia () was a Mexican department store founded in 1878 in Guadalajara as a lingerie store by 3 French immigrants. In 1988, the El Puerto de Liverpool group bought the chain. By 2018, there were 41 Fábricas stores across Mexico. In 2018 and 2019, El Puerto de Liverpool phased out the ''Fábricas de Francia'' brand and all stores were converted to either the ''Liverpool'' or ''Suburbia'' brand, except for three that were closed permanently. History Fábricas de Francia was founded as a lingerie store in Guadalajara in 1878 by Disiderio Bonnafoux, José Chapuy and Léon Fortoul, immigrants from the Ubaye Valley and Barcelonnette in southeastern France. The original store was at the northeast corner of San Francisco street (today, Avenida Juárez) and Del Carmen (today, Avenida 16 de Septiembre), a mansion () of typical Spanish Colonial architecture. With its growing success, the building was expanded and remodeled in 1898-9 in Parisian style (Second Empire style. It b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Stock Exchange
The Mexican Stock Exchange (), commonly known as Mexican Bolsa, Mexbol, or BMV, is one of two stock exchanges in Mexico, the other being BIVA - Bolsa Institucional de Valores. It is the second largest stock exchange in Latin America, only after São Paulo based BM&F Bovespa, B3 in Brazil. It is also the fifth largest stock exchange in the Americas. The exchange platform is owned by BMV Group, which also owns the derivative exchange ''Mexican Derivatives Exchange, MexDer'' and the custody agency ''Indeval''. The BMV was created out of the merger of the three stock exchanges which formerly operated in Mexico: The ''Bolsa de Valores de México'', which operated in Mexico City, the Bolsa de Occidente (''Occidental Stock Exchange'') in Guadalajara, and the Bolsa de Monterrey (''Monterrey Stock Exchange''). The exchange kept modernising until its introduction of a fully electronic system for trading which was consolidated in 1999. In 2014, the Mexican Stock Exchange completed its first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unicomer Group
Unicomer Caribbean Holding Co. Ltd (), is a multinational retailing and consumer finance group headquartered in San Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador with regional offices in Miami, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Costa Rica. It operates several chains of retail brands in the consumer durables sector, specializing in furniture, audio & video, appliances, and electronics in Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and United States. History The Unicomer Group was founded in 2000. In 2014, Unicomer Group obtained international credit ratings from Fitch Ratings and from Standard and Poors for its consolidated holding company, which at that time was named Regal Forest Holding Co. Ltd. 15 April 2015, Unicomer Group acquired the exclusive rights to the RadioShack brands, intellectual property and contracts of existing RadioShack franchisees throughout Central America, South America and the Caribbean. In February 2017, the Group's holding company changed its name to Grupo Unicomer Hold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a government census. Among the Mesoamerican nations that historically controlled the region are the Maya peoples, Maya, and then the Cuzcatlan, Cuzcatlecs. Archaeological monuments also suggest an early Olmec presence around the first millennium BC. In the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish conquest of El Salvador, Spanish Empire conquered the Central American territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. However, the Viceroyalty of New Spain had little to no influence in the daily affairs of the isthmus, which was colonized in 1524. In 1609, the area was declared the Captaincy General of Guatemala by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordstrom
Nordstrom, Inc. () is an American Luxury goods, luxury department store chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin in 1901. The original store operated exclusively as a shoe store, and a second location opened in 1923. The growing chain began selling clothing in 1963, and became the full-line retailer that presently exists by 1971. The company founded its off-price Nordstrom Rack division in 1973, and grew both full-line and off-price divisions throughout the United States in the following years. The full-line division competes with department stores including Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue, while the off-price division competes with retailers including the TJX Companies and Ross Stores. Previous expansions beyond the contiguous United States include Puerto Rico (2015–2020) and Canada (2014–2023). Early history John W. Nordstrom was born on February 15, 1871, in the village Alvik, Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
