A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits, and the definition of service and luxury. Similar developments were under way in London, in Paris and in New York (Stewart's).
El Corte Inglés S.A., headquartered in Madrid, is the biggest department store group in Europe and ranks third worldwide. Its primary source of sales is from department stores, followed by internet sales. It is a family business, with most stock being held by relatives of the deceased businessmen Ramon Areces Rodriguez and César Rodríguez González (1882-1966), and the Ramon Areces foundation.
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an American publicly traded consumer retail company that sells kitchenware and home furnishings. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The company has 625 brick and mortar stores and distributes to more than 60 countries, with brands including Williams Sonoma, Williams Sonoma Home, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, West Elm, Mark and Graham, and Rejuvenation. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. also operates through eight corresponding websites and a gift registry.
A store-within-a-store, also referred to as store-in-store or shop-in-shop, refers to a space within a larger retail store, designated for use by a specific brand to feature its products, clearly branded with signs and other branding elements like color, materials, layout, etc. Such a space may be a section of the main area of the store, or it may have the form of an enclosed store with "walls" an entrance, much like a store in a shopping mall.
Plaza del Sol is one of the largest shopping malls in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Mexico, located in the municipality of Zapopan. Built at the end of the sixties by the architect Alejandro Zohn, it was the first mall in Latin America. It is the largest outdoor mall in the city, located next to the Plaza Milenium and future Torrena. Current anchors are Suburbia, Soriana supermarket and Mundara.
Sears Operadora México, S.A. de C.V. is a department store chain located in Mexico, operating 92 stores all over Mexico as of 2022. Sears México is operated by Grupo Sanborns, a division of Grupo Carso.
El Palacio de Hierro (operated by the corporation Grupo El Palacio de Hierro S.A.B. de C.V.; is an upscale chain of 16 full-line Palacio de Hierro department stores, 3 Boutique Palacio junior department stores, 2 Casa Palacio home stores, and 2 outlets located in Greater Mexico City and 8 other major cities across Mexico. It has two flagship stores - one the original historic flagship in the Historic center of Mexico City and the "Palacio de los Palacios" store in the Polanco district, reopened in 2016 after an extensive renovation costing US$300 million, and at 55,200 m2, the largest department store in Latin America. Palacio de Hierro has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores since 2000.
Perisur is a shopping mall located in the Coyoacán borough in southern Mexico City at the intersection of Insurgentes Avenue South and the Anillo Periférico, next to the UNAM main campus in Ciudad Universitaria and to the upscale Jardines del Pedregal neighbourhood. Designed by architect Juan Sordo Madaleno, the shopping center became the largest shopping mall in total area in Mexico when it opened in 1980.
Suburbia is a Mexican chain of department stores now part of the El Puerto de Liverpool group and founded in 1970 in Mexico City. Its main activity consists of the sale of clothing, appliances, electronics and cell phones aimed at the middle and lower economic classes. As of December 2023, there were 180 Suburbia department stores located across Mexico.
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 four that were closed permanently.
Department stores are an established retail format globally. The format has origins in France, the United Kingdom and United States, among many others.
París-Londres, also known as "La Gran Boutique", was a chain of department stores that were briefly rebranded CLASS, then purchased by Grupo Cifra, owner of Suburbia, and rebranded as Suburbia in the 1990s after Mexico started to permit imports from abroad on a large scale. The main store was located at 81, 16 de Septiembre Street in the Historic Center of Mexico City, and there were branches at Perisur, Plaza Satélite and in Polanco.
Liverpool is a Mexican chain of department stores that is part of the El Puerto de Liverpool group, a Mexican company that consists of commercial, financial, and real estate operations. The group has three divisions:
Galerías is a Mexican chain of shopping centers that is part of the El Puerto de Liverpool group, a Mexican company that consists of commercial, financial, and real estate operations. The group has three divisions:
Galerías Perinorte is a 90,000 m2 (970,000 sq ft) shopping center in Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico, in the northwest part of the Mexico City metropolitan area. The architect was Manuel Rocha Díaz and it was built between 1985 and 1990 and opened in 1992. The main anchors are a Cinépolis multicinema; a Soriana Híper hypermarket and Liverpool and Suburbia department stores. The Perinorte center, as well as Liverpool and Suburbia chains, are all owned by the El Puerto de Liverpool group. Perinorte is part of the Puerto group's shopping center division, Galerías.
Sfera is a chain over as of the end of 2022, 490 retail stores and other points of sale owned by El Corte Inglés S.A. the group which also operates the Spanish department stores of the same name, and other retail formats. Sales in fiscal 2020 were 461 million euro. There are stores in:
Salinas y Rocha was a chain of Mexican department stores primarily selling appliances.
Grupo Cifra or Grupo Aurrerá-Cifra was a Mexican company, owned by Jerónimo Arango and his brother Manuel Arango, founded in 1986, whose main component businesses were supermarket chains Aurrerá and Superama, restauurant chains VIPS and El Portón, department storesSuburbia and others such as El Gran Bazar, BONS, Fratti and Bon Savor. The Group ceased to exist in 2000 as it became part of Walmart.
176,033,720,000 MXN (Mexican pesos, ca. 9.14 billion USD) (2022)
