Dorian's

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

Dorian's
IndustryRetail
SuccessorSears (Mexico)
Founded1959 (1959) in Tijuana
Defunct2009 (2009)
Headquarters
Tijuana, Baja California
,
Mexico
Number of locations
14 (2009)
Areas served
mainly Baja California, later across Northern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula

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.

References
  1. Company Overview of Dorian's Tijuana, S.A. de C.V., Business Week, retrieved 2013-10-08
  2. "Tijuana Firm Back after Fire". Escondido Times-Advocate. December 1, 1977.
  3. 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

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