GRUPO SANBORNS.

GRUPO SANBORNS Grupo Sanborns is a large retail, pharmacy and department store chain located in Mexico. Few Mexican companies are as steeped in history as Sanborn Hermanos, owners of Sanborns pharmacy. , a Mexican Mexican

named after or originating in Mexico.

Mexican axolotl
see ambystomamexicanum.

Mexican beaded lizard
(Heloderma horridum retail chain, bought the remaining 85% of Texas-based CompUSA CompUSA, Inc. is a retailer and reseller of consumer electronics, technology products and computer services. CompUSA serves consumer retail, small-to-medium businesses, corporate, government and education customers. for US$800 million. Marco Antonio Slim Domit, Grupo Sanborn's chairman and the son of Mexico magnate Carlos Slim Helu, engineered the deal. It is the first time that a Mexican company will own a national U.S. retail chain.

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Title Annotation:	buys CompUSA
Publication:	Latin Trade
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	1MEX
Date:	Apr 1, 2000
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