While 70% of the Fábricas de Francia stores in the country became Liverpool stores, the Fábricas de Francia that moved to Suburbia became known as Lo Mejor de Suburbia y Fábricas de Francia juntos en una sola tienda ( The Best of Suburbia and Fábricas de Francia together in one store), whose This format focused on those former Fábricas de Francia whose sales floor size, number of sales, type of shopping center and / or population size of less than 130,000 inhabitants, was counterproductive to continue as Liverpool (such as the cases of Apizaco, Tuxtepec, Uriangato, Plaza Central in Mexico City and Plaza Sendero shopping centers in the cities of Los Mochis, Tijuana and Saltillo Sur, among others).Likewise, under said administration, the disappearance of Fábricas de Francia at the national level, caused to Suburbia also enter cities with 70,000 inhabitants or areas where it was impossible to locate a Liverpool store in two ways: Suburbia is usually located in the historic centers of large and medium-sized cities, as well as in shopping malls for daily use, such as the community center and power center, where Suburbia acts as the main anchor for this type of shopping center for daily use, as well as acting as a sub-anchor for lifestyle centers and fashion malls (such as Plaza Mayor León in Guanajuato, Galerías Coapa in Mexico City, El Paseo Tehuacán in Puebla, Forum Tepic in Nayarit, La Gran Plaza Mazatlán in Sinaloa, Paseo Durango, Citadel in Monterrey, Altabrisa Mérida, Forum Tlaquepaque and Plaza del Sol, both in Guadalajara, among other fashion malls in Mexico).Īfter the administration of the Grupo Liverpool in 2019, Suburbia began to enter into recently created Mexican fashion malls (such as Paseo Querétaro, Parque Puebla, Galerías Santa Anita from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Parque Las Antenas from Mexico City, Ámbar Fashion Mall of Túxtla Gutiérrez, Sentura Zamora of Michoacan, Alaïa Guanajuato of the Guanajuato capital, Paseo Monclova of Coahuila (known as El Coloso de Coahuila), Galerías La Paz of Baja California Sur, Power Center Tecámac in México City and Galerías San Juan del Río, among others), which Suburbia acts as a sub-anchor of fashion malls.Ĭoacalco Power Center, another shopping mall with a Suburbia store in Coacalco, México It handles a wide assortment of merchandise from the clothing, footwear, accessories, perfumery, cell phone, technology, toys, and recently electronics, technology, video games and furniture divisions.Ī Suburbia store in Plaza del Sol shopping mall, in Guadalajara, Jalisco Suburbia is a department store focused on consumers located in cities from 70,000 inhabitants onwards, with 166 stores in Mexico, which have a sales floor area from 1,500 m2 to 6,000 m2. In 2019, while 70% of Fábricas de Francia stores moved to Liverpool, the remaining 21 branches became Suburbia stores and since then, Liverpool began to expand Suburbia stores in the country, either reaching fashion malls where Liverpool is present as the main anchor, or in cities or towns with more than 70,000 inhabitants. On September 12, 2018, Grupo Liverpool announced that the format Fábricas de Francia will disappear to convert the 41 stores into the Liverpool or Suburbia formats. On April 4, having concluded the formalities of the transaction, the incorporation of the same to Liverpool began. The final closure of the operation (purchase) was carried out on Mawhen the Federal Economic Competition Commission authorized the sale. On January 18, 2016, Walmart de México announced the start of the sales process for this format, which ended when the El Puerto de Liverpool chain acquired 100% of the chain on August 10, 2016. In 1997, Suburbia had more than 9,000 employees. In 1994, together with Vips, Suburbia joined the Cifra Walmart group (which in turn changed to Walmart de México in 2001). In 1986, together with Aurrerá, Bodega Aurrerá, Superama, Vips and El Portón, Grupo Cifra was created. The first branch was opened on Octoin Taxqueña, south of Mexico City, in which its concept was born as a department store for clothing, footwear and accessories for the whole family.

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