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Grupo Sanborns

Logo: Grupo Sanborns, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Mexican retailing company

Grupo Sanborns S.A. de C.V. 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. As of 2021, the group sales were 53 billion Mexican pesos, equivalent to around US$2.6 billion. It operated in 62 metropolitan areas and towns across the country, with formats including:2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1903Founded1

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Photo: Pvt.Billinghurst, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Grupo Sanborns S.A. de C.V. 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.2

Corporate structure

Grupo Sanborns is part of a group headed by Grupo Carso. 4 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Grupo Sanborns reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Products and brands

  • cafeteria

Listed on Wikidata.1

Divisions

As of end of 2020, there are the following divisions:

Sears

Sanborns, see below

iShopMixup

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Other formats, see below

Sanborns division

The Sanborns division as of December 2020 included:

Sanborns junior department stores-and-restaurants

Sanborns Home&Fashion stores

Sanborns Café restaurants

DAX cosmetics and variety stores

Two Saks Fifth Avenue stores in Mexico City (both since closed, see Timeline of Saks Fifth Avenue branches

"Other formats" division

Two shopping malls, Plaza Loreto and Plaza Inbursa

One Sears store in El Salvador

ClaroShop e-commerce portal

Formerly included

Three Boutiques

Three Sanborns stores in Central America (now closed)

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. Deciding not to renew its Saks franchise, the group will convert it to a Sears.

From Wikipedia’s article on Grupo Sanborns, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1999Acquired Acquired by Grupo Carso1
  2. 1903Founded Founded1

Sources

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