Controladora Comercial Mexicana. (Panorama: Mexico).

CONTROLADORA COMERCIAL MEXICANA Comercial Mexicana is a Mexican hypermarket group, which features stores similar to those owned by Wal-Mart in the United States or Carrefour in France. It is part of the Controladora Comercial Mexicana Group which also owns the local Costco warehouse franchise and Restaurantes , the second-largest retail company in Mexico Mexico, city, Mexico
Mexico or Mexico City, Span. Ciudad de México (Méjico), city (1990 pop. 8,236,960; 1991 met. area est. 20,899,000), central Mexico, capital and largest city of Mexico. , plans to acquire five hypermarkets and malls in Mexico from France's Auchan Auchan SA is an international retail group and multinational corporation headquartered in Croix, France. It is one of the world's principal distribution groups . It is present in 12 countries and employs 175,000 employees. . The value of the deal has been estimated at US$91 million.

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Title Annotation:	to acquire properties from Auchan
Comment:	Controladora Comercial Mexicana. (Panorama: Mexico).(to acquire properties from Auchan)
Publication:	Latin Trade
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	1MEX
Date:	Mar 1, 2003
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