ALFA (Mexico)

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ALFA S.A.B. de C.V.

Company type	Sociedad Anónima Bursátil de Capital Variable
Traded as	BMV: ALFA A BMAD: XALFA
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	1974; 50 years ago (1974)
Headquarters	Monterrey , Mexico
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Armando Garza (Chairman) Álvaro Fernández (CEO)
Products	aluminum auto components, petrochemicals, refrigerated foods, oil and natural gas
Services	IT and telecommunication services
Revenue	US$ 17.2 billion (2014)
Net income	US$ -119 million (2014)
Total assets	US$ 15.8 billion (2014)
Number of employees	68,000
Subsidiaries	Alpek Nemak Sigma Alestra Newpek
Website	www.alfa.com.mx

Alfa S.A.B. de C.V., also known as Alfa or Alfa Group, is a Mexican multinational conglomerate headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico. It is a diversified group of businesses, mainly industrial, that produces petrochemicals, aluminum auto components, and refrigerated foods. It also participates in the extraction of oil and natural gas, and offers IT & telecom services. It is the global leader in the production of engine blocks and cylinder heads for American and European automakers; it is one of the largest PET and PTA producers in North America; and it is also a leader in the distribution of refrigerated foods in Mexico. In 2013, it was the seventh largest company of Mexico according to CNN Expansión.^[1]

Alfa has operations in Mexico, the United States and other 21 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. As of 2014, its portfolio comprised five businesses: Alpek, the petrochemical company; Nemak, the aluminum auto components company; Sigma Alimentos, the refrigerated foods company; Alestra, the IT & telecom company; and Newpek, the oil and natural gas extraction company.

Alfa is listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange and the Latibex, the Latin American market in the Madrid Stock Exchange. 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.