Grupo Salinas region and by 1987, 59 stores. Elektra Group became a publicly traded company listed on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, the Mexican Stock Exchange. In 1993, Grupo Elektra bought the Imevisión government television network and renamed it TV Azteca. TV Azteca created an initial public offering in 1997 on the Mexican and New York stock exchanges. In 2012, Grupo Elektra, a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Salinas, acquired Advance America for an estimated $780 million USD. In 2003, Grupo Salinas purchased the telecommunicaions company Iusacell and the mobile phone company Unefón. Iusacell was sold to AT&T in 2014, and rebranded
Rancho Bolsa de Chamisal Rancho Bolsa de Chamisal Rancho Bolsa de Chamisal was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Luis Obispo County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Francisco Quijada. The grant extended along the Pacific coast, just south of present-day Oceano, and was bordered on the north by Rancho Pismo and the south by Rancho Guadalupe. Vicente Quijada (1755–) came to California with the 1781 Rivera expedition. Quijada was part of the Santa Barbara founding garrison in 1782. In 1779 Vicente Quijada first married Juana María Armenta (1755–1783). In 1785, he married his second wife, Antonia Josefa Pinuelas