12 Facts About Soriana

Organizacion Soriana is a Mexican public company and a major retailer in Mexico with more than 824 stores.

Soriana is a grocery and department store retail chain headquartered in Torreon, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico.

Soriana was founded in 1968 by Mexican entrepreneurs and brothers, Francisco and Armando Martin Borque, in Torreon, Coahuila.

Soriana competes primarily with H-E-B, La Comer, Chedraui, S-Mart and Walmex.

In 2008, Soriana replaced the existing Gigante stores including its seven stores in the United States.

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In that moment Soriana analyzed the proposal of the Mega Comercial Mexicana format, and once the license to operate the Comercial Mexicana formats was expired, Soriana would retain the name Mega, due to the acquisition of 70 properties assigned with the name.

In 2015, Soriana acquired and transformed the four Super Fruteria del Sol stores in the Sonoran border city of San Luis Rio Colorado to Soriana Super.

In 2018, Soriana converted two Comercial Mexicana stores in Acapulco and Cancun into Soriana Super, since both had a surface area of less than 3,000 m2.

In 2008, Soriana converted most of the Bodega Gigante and some Gigante stores into Soriana Mercado.

In 2008, Soriana converted two Gigante stores in Mexico City and Queretaro and a Bodega Gigante store in Puebla into City Club, this because they were Gigante stores where there were already Soriana in the vicinity of them or where, having at least two or more Gigante branches and one of the two buildings would have already been converted.

In 2016, Soriana entered into a collaboration agreement with the Chilean retail company Falabella for the opening of stores of the Sodimac chain in Mexican territory.

Soriana is currently the shirt sponsor for the Primera Division de la Federacion Mexicana de Futbol football club Santos Laguna.