El Corte Ingles will open soon four shopping centers

   El Corte Ingles wants to eats to all the cities and soon and before it ends 2007 will have four you reside big shopping centers open and will reach this way the number of 71. Of this important quantity 69 plows please in Spanish cities and two abroad, specifically in Gaia (Oporto) and in Lisbon. Also it is provided with 36 large supermarkets called Hipercor and an important number of shops specialized like travel obtain, do-it-yourself, computer science, the famous Opencor, etc. The cities that join the list of having an English Cut and that will be able to enjoy this Europaean department stores leader plows Guadalajara, Jaen, Leganés (Madrid) and Elche (Alicante).

To little of history

   Ramón Areces Rodriguez in 1935 buys to small tailoring that there was born in 1890 called "El Corte Ingles" that was in the street Boasted in Madrid. It move to his business the you design and skills of United States and salt that were practised in the Canada. In 1940 it moves his business to the corner of the streets Boasted and Tetuán and in 1952, turns into Corporation. In 1962 the second establishment is opened in the Square of Catalonia of Barcelona. In 1989 Isidro Álvarez, nephew of Ramón Areces, takes the presidency of the English Cut In 1995 it acquires Galleries Boasted that had suffered serious economic crises finishing of payments suspension. With the Galleries acquisition Boasted the number of centers of the English Cut you were uncreating spectacularly, since it adds 24 you reside.

   El Corte Ingles wants to keep on growing and to spread to other foreign cities. I have wants to open soon to center in You chat (small city of Portugal to 25 km from Lisbon and to 2 km of Estoril and that it limits on the West and on the South with the Atlantic Ocean). This way, already there will be 3 centers in Portugal. But his extension does not end here, because it is ready to make way for him in Italy, specifically in the cities of Milan and later in Rome.

   At present El Corte Ingles is to corporative group. In addition to the department stores El Corte Ingles, there is the large supermarkets Hipercor, the obtain Trips El Corte Ingles, the shops Computer science El Corte Ingles, the services of telecommunications Telecor, the wholesale company of products and computer services You Unsee, the publishing University student Ramon Areces, the brokerage of insurances Cess El Corte Inglés, the insurances The English cut, the financier El Corte Ingles, the shops Opencor with the motto of open shop 365 days of the year for 18 hours, the Service stations Supercor, the chain of supermarkets Supercor, the chain Sfera that plows shops specializing in fashion and complements, and Bricor that is to chain of shops specializing  in decoration, baths, kitchens, do-it-yourself, carpentry and garden.