Dorian's

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Dorian's
Industry Retail
Founded1959;65 years ago (1959) in Tijuana
Defunct2009 (2009)
Successor Sears (Mexico)
Headquarters,
Number of locations
14 (2009)
Areas served
mainly Baja California, later across Northern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula

Dorian's was a department store chain based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

Dorian's was established in downtown Tijuana in 1959. [1]

On November 9, 1977, a fire ripped through the block where Dorian's was located, however after only 17 working days the store was back open, with half the square footage housed in tent-like structures built in a nearby parking lot. [2]

Carlos Slim's Grupo Carso bought Dorian's Tijuana, S.A. de C.V. in 2004 and operated it as a subsidiary of Inmuebles Borgru, S.A. de C.V. which in turn was a subsidiary of Inmuebles Carso, S.A.B. de C.V. [3] In that same year, Dorian's expanded to Cancun, Chihuahua, Leon, Merida, and Monterrey after purchasing five JCPenney stores, which operated in Mexico since 1995.

A store opened in the new Las Misiones mall in Ciudad Juárez in 2004 [4] and closed shortly thereafter (now Liverpool).

In 2009, Dorian's had 14 stores in [5]

Starting in April 2009, the 14 Dorian’s department stores were integrated into Sears México and operated under the name Sears. [3] However, the Downtown Tijuana store was closed in May 2009 [6] and is now the Plaza de la Tecnología, a market hall of retail technology vendors.

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References

  1. Company Overview of Dorian's Tijuana, S.A. de C.V., Business Week, archived from the original on October 8, 2013, retrieved 2013-10-08
  2. "Tijuana Firm Back after Fire". Escondido Times-Advocate. December 1, 1977.
  3. 1 2 Reporte Anual 2009 (PDF), Grupo Carso, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-19
  4. Gilot, Louie (October 15, 2004). "Upscale Juárez Mall Opens Today". El Paso Times.
  5. Dorian's website, archive.org record of edition of 2009-04-12
  6. "Dorian's Centro cierra por crisis", El Sol de Tijuana, 2009-05-13, archived from the original on 2015-06-10, retrieved 2013-10-08

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