FEMSA

Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V.
Company typeSociedad Anónima Bursátil de Capital Variable
BMVFEMSA
NYSEFMX (ADR)
IndustryBeverage, Retail
Founded1974; 50 years ago (1974)
Headquarters,
Area served
Latin America and the United States
Key people
José Antonio Fernández
(Chairman)
Eduardo Padilla Silva
(CEO)
John Anthony Santa María Otazúa
(CEO of Coca-Cola FEMSA)[1]
Carlos Arenas
(CEO of OXXO)
RevenueIncrease MXN$506.7 billion (2019)
Increase MXN$28.0 billion (2019)
Total assetsIncrease MXN$637.5 billion (2019)
Number of employees
+230,000
DivisionsCoca-Cola FEMSA
FEMSA Comercio
FEMSA Negocios Estrategicos
Heineken (8%)[2]

Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as FEMSA, is a Mexican multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico. It operates the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group in the world and the largest convenience store chain in Mexico. It is also a shareholder of Heineken N.V.

FEMSA reported revenues of US$26.9 billion for 2019, making it the fifth largest company of Mexico.[3] It has operations in Latin America mainly through bottling plants, convenience stores, drugstores, fuel stations, and third-party logistic services, and in the United States, where it participates in the jan-san distribution industry. It is well known in Mexico for its convenience store chain Oxxo, it previously owned Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery (exchanged in 2010 for a 20% stake in Heineken N.V.), and for being the owner of C.F. Monterrey, a Liga MX football team.

FEMSA has been listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange since 1978 and on the NYSE through ADRs since 1998. It is a constituent of the IPC, the main benchmark index of the Mexican Stock Exchange, and of the S&P Latin America 40, which includes leading, blue chip companies from Latin America.

  1. ^ "John Anthony Santa María Otazua Chief Executive Officer". Bloomberg.
  2. ^ Mexico's FEMSA focuses back on retail, bottling with Heineken stake sale (Reuters, February 17, 2023)
  3. ^ "Top 10 del Ranking 2014". CNN Expansión. Archived from the original on 2014-06-27. Retrieved 2014-06-26.