El Nuevo Mundo

During the mid-1800s in Mexico City, small shops, known as cajones (Spanish: boxes, trunks, drawers), began to appear, selling quality and fashionable clothes and fabrics to the growing Mexican high-end market, which for customers had prior to then meant either traveling to Europe or waiting months for ships from the Old World to arrive with advertised goods.

In 1877 the Spaniard Don Bernardo García Robes y Ordoñez founded El Cajón de El Nuevo Mundo Spanish: The Trunk/Box/Drawer of The New World on the corner of Capuchinas and 1st Monterilla, today Venustiano Carranza and 5 de Febrero streets, in the Historic center of Mexico City.

The store sold high-quality fabrics, hats and millinery, women's clothing and perfumes imported from Europe, since the Mexican manufacturing industry was just beginning.

In 1956 it opened a branch in Monterrey on Padre Mier Street which was expanded over time to the current area of 10,000 square meters.

[1] Product lines include apparel and footwear for men, women and children, fabrics, curtains, decoration, household items, home appliances, and haberdashery.