Sears expanded into Latin America and Spain starting with a small store in Downtown Havana, Cuba in 1942. Sears opened its first store in Mexico City in 1947; the Mexican stores would later spin off into Sears Mexico, now owned by billionaire Carlos Slim's Grupo Sanborns, which by the end of 2022 operated 97 stores across Mexico.[1]
Sears had sales of US$78 million in Latin America in 1953. Over time, Sears expanded into:[2][3]
Country
First store
No. stores 1954
Presence
Employees 1954
Sold/ Closed
Remarks
Brazil
1949
3
1954: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santos
1,638
1990s
11 stores in 1993 when sold to Malzoni and Vendex, became Mappin stores or malls[4]
Costa Rica
n/a
n/a
n/a
1982-3[5]
Colombia
1953
3
1954: Baranquilla, Bogotá, Cartagena
403
Cuba
1942
6
1954: Havana, Cienfuegos, Holguín, Marianao, Santiago
511
1960
Nationalized 24 October 1960[6]
Ecuador
1999
1
Guayaquil, Albán Borja shopping center
2003[7]
In the 1980s, a Saga Sears operated in Ecuador
El Salvador
2010/1[8]
n/a
n/a
n/a
operating
Still in operation by Mexico's Grupo Sanborns
Guatemala
1976, 2000
n/a
n/a
n/a
1982-3[5]
Operated 1976–1982, and again since 2000, with 2 stores: Guatemala City, Quetzaltenango.[9]
Honduras
?, 2000
n/a
n/a
n/a
1982–3,[5] 2016
Operated ?-1982/3, and again in 2000-2016
Mexico (article)
1947
7
1954: Guadalajara, Mérida, Puebla, Mexico City–Colonia Roma, Monterrey, San Luis Potosí, Tampico End 2022: 97 across Mexico.[10]
2,146
n/a
Operating with 97 stores as of end 2022.[10]
Nicaragua
1965
n/a
n/a
n/a
1979
1965–1979[11][12]
Panama
?
n/a
n/a
n/a
2002
Operated ?-2002
Peru
1954
1
1954: Lima
1991
Became Saga hen renamed Falabella
Puerto Rico (article)
1961
n/a
Operated 14 full-line department stores and various other formats over its lifespan. One full-line store remains open as of end 2023.
Spain
1967
(1970: 2)
1970–1983: Barcelona, Madrid
1983
Opened in Barcelona 30 March 1967, opened in Madrid 8 April 1970.[13] Closed in January 1983, became Rumasa's Galerías Preciados.
Venezuela
1950
6
1954: Barquisimeto, Caracas (opened 1950), Maracaibo (opened 1952, 12,000 m2, architect Tomás José Sanabria), Maracay, Puerto La Cruz. (Later also Ciudad Ojeda).
1,025
Eventually 3 stores in Caracas: Bello Monte (11,600 m2, Pro-Patria, El Marqués. Acquired by Grupo Cisneros[es]), renamed Maxys, which closed in 1997.[14]
^"Acerca de Nosotros" [About Us]. Sears (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 29, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2022. Sears is currently a 100% Mexican company and has more than seventy-five stores throughout the country. It offers basic auto repair services and service contracts for the home appliances it sells.
^"Sears to open in Peru", New York Times 22 December 1953
^"Sears Expanding in Latin America; Bogota Store, to Open in Summer, Will Be 25th in Chain", New York Times, 8 March 1954
^Liz Batista (21 August 2015). "Era uma vez em SP … lojas Sears" [Once upon a time in São Paulo there were … Sears stores]. Estadão (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
^ abc"The Chicago-based Sears Roebuck & Co. announced Monday it will close its operations in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua for 'strictly economic causes.", UPI, November 1, 1982
^Rioseco, Pedro (24 October 2021). "Aniversario 61 de la Nacionalización de Empresas de Estados Unidos". Contraloría General de la República de Cuba (Controller of the Republic of Cuba). Retrieved 23 January 2022.
^"Almacenes Sears se despiden del Ecuador". El Universo. 13 February 2003. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
^"Tienda Sears llega a El Salvador - Market Data México". ElSalvador.com (in Spanish). www.centralamericadata.com. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^"Sears Guatemala es una cadena de tiendas por departamentos especializada en ofrecer productos de alta" (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 14 January 2024.
^ abEcheverría, Mara (29 June 2023). "Sears, la tienda de la familia Slim que en México tomó un camino diferente al de su quiebra en EU". Expansión (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 January 2024.
^"International Commerce". 13 September 1965. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
^Closure of Sears in Nicaragua, 1979
^"Gran Inauguración de Sears". ABC. 8 April 1970. Archived from the original on 3 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
^"The Venezuela of Sears Roebuck", Steemit
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