Sears (Mexico) to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands where he supervised the business expansion of the islands. From 1955 to 1993, Sears opened stores throughout Mexico. On April 2, 1997, Sears, now owned by Sears Holdings, formed a strategic alliance with Grupo Carso, owned by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helú, through which Sears agreed to sell 85% of its share of Sears Mexico to Grupo Carso, until 1997. As of 2007, Grupo Carso owned a 100% share of the company. Even though Sears unveiled a new lowercase logo in the United States in 2010, Sears Mexico still retains the pre-2004 logo (in
Grupo Lala Grupo Lala Grupo Lala is a Mexican dairy company, founded in 1950 in Gómez Palacio, Durango. It is the only dairy company that operates nationwide in Mexico. The company was founded in 1950 in Torreón, Coahuila. It expanded into the United States in 2008, acquiring a manufacturing plant in Omaha, Nebraska, and in 2009, LALA acquired National Dairy, Farmland Dairies and Promised Land. The company's Chairman is Eduardo Tricio and the CEO is Scot Rank. LALA is now the largest dairy company in Latin America. The company name makes reference to its origin "La Laguna", a region located in Northern