Dorian's

Dorian's store at Plaza Rio Tijuana before it became a Sears branch in 2009
Industry	Retail
Founded	1959; 65 years ago (1959) in Tijuana
Defunct	2009 (2009)
Successor	Sears (Mexico)
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 a department store chain based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

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]

• Tijuana:
  • Downtown Tijuana (Corner of 2nd and Niños Héroes)
  • Plaza Río Tijuana
  • Plaza Carrousel
  • Centro Comercial Mesa de Otay, Otay Centenario
• Cancun - Plaza Las Américas (formerly JCPenney)
• Chihuahua, Chihuahua - Plaza de Sol (formerly JCPenney)
• Ensenada - downtown
• La Paz, Baja California Sur -
  • Downtown
  • Forjadores
• León, Guanajuato - Plaza Mayor (formerly JCPenney)
• Mérida - Plaza las Américas (formerly JCPenney)
• Mexicali - Centro Comercial Cachanilla
• Monterrey area - San Pedro Garza García (formerly JCPenney)
• San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora

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.

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