Soriana Soriana Organización 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 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. The company is 100% capitalized in Mexico and has been publicly traded on the Mexican stock exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores), since 1987 under the symbol: "Soriana". Soriana is powered by IT Retail software. Soriana was founded in 1968 by Mexican entrepreneurs and brothers, Francisco and Armando Martín Borque, in Torreón, Coahuila. The company currently, as of 2013, operates under the brands Soriana, Clubes City Club,
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