Salinas y Rocha

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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, become well-known most of all for their easy payment terms, thus allowing the working and lower-middle classes of Mexico to acquire home appliances. [1] [2]

In 1943, already in the hands of Hugo Salinas Rocha, son of Benjamín Salinas and grandfather of Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the firm entered the department store business, opening a store in Monterrey; The success was such that within two years there was a second store, this one in Mexico City. For someone with the aggressiveness that Salinas Rocha demonstrated when it came to business, there was no need for further indications to know that the moment was favorable to start other businesses, so in 1950 he started a new company, which he named Elektra. [2] [1]

The brand new company, which over the years would become the emblem of the Salinas businesses, showed that within the company things were not going as well. The creation of Elektra dented the alliance between the Salinas and the Rochas; In 1961, Hugo Salinas left the joint venture to dedicate himself full-time to Elektra – which was said to overshadow Salinas y Rocha – although he remained a shareholder. [2] [1]

Although on separate paths, both chains remained firm in their decision to continue with the same store format, so that for decades, Salinas y Rocha and Elektra went from being quite literally family, to being competitors. [2] [1]

En 1996 the El Puerto de Liverpool group bought Grupo Salinas y Rocha, [3] then sold it in March 1999 to Grupo Elektra, [4] part of Grupo Salinas and the 86 Salinas y Rochas format stores were largely folded into Elektra chain,. However, the Salinas group had owned 11 department stores, and Elektra sold these and some other assets back to El Puerto de Liverpool the next month (April 1999). [4] Salinas y Rocha still exists as a product brand sold by Elektra stores and online. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Historia" [History]. www.gruposalinas.com. Grupo Salinas. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Salinas y Rocha: Historias de familia" [Salinas and Rocha: Stories of Families]. Expansión (in Spanish). 20 September 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Historia" [History]. El Puerto de Liverpool (grupo) (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  4. 1 2 "Elektra Vende 11 Tiendas Departamentales a Liverpool por US$27 Millones y Hace su Pago Final por la Adquisición del Grupo Salinas". Grupo Elektra. Retrieved 8 January 2024. Elektra Vende 11 Tiendas Departamentales a Liverpool por US$27 Millones y Hace su Pago Final por la Adquisición del Grupo Salinas y Rocha México, D.F., 22 de Abril de 1999-- Grupo Elektra, S.A. de C.V. (BMV: ELEKTRA, NYSE: EKT), la principal cadena de tiendas especializadas de América Latina, anunció hoy que acordó vender las 11 tiendas departamentales de Salinas y Rocha a El Puerto de Liverpool, S.A. de C.V. (BMV: LIVEPOL) por aproximadamente US$27 millones. Ambas compañías todavía esperan la aprobación de la Comisión Federal de Competencia (CFC). Elektra adquirió las tiendas departamentales como parte de la compra total del Grupo Salinas y Rocha en marzo de 1999. En ese entonces Elektra anunció sus intenciones de mantener solamente las 86 tiendas tradicionales de Salinas y Rocha y la posible venta de las tiendas departamentales, bienes raíces, fábricas y activos no estratégicos
  5. ↑ "Home". Salinas y Rocha. Elektra. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
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