The Mexican transnational corporations have expanded into other countries, ceasing to be national companies and becoming multinational, global or international. Of these multinationals, only a few (just over 10 companies) have headquarters on five continents. The rest have plants only in America, Europe and Asia.
According to Forbes magazine, the most important transnational companies in Mexico are the Carso group, the Bimbo group, Arca Continental, the Televisa group, Coca-Cola Fomento Economico Mexicano SA and América Móvil.
Among the multinational companies in Mexico, three stand out. These are América Móvil, Grupo Bimbo and Mexchem, belonging to the telecommunications, agri-food and chemical industries respectively.
These three companies are the ones with the highest representation abroad and generate more income than the others.
Below is a list of the 20 most important companies in Mexico that have a presence abroad.
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Grupo Bimbo is one of the best known transnational companies in Mexico. It is the most important agri-food company in Mexico and the # 1 bakery in the world.
This company has more than 160 plants around the planet and its sales exceed 14 million dollars, the main consumers being the United States, Canada, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela and other Latin American countries.
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This is a company in the telecommunications sector. This company has successfully expanded to the United States and the Caribbean; added to this, it is one of the few companies in Latin America that has managed to enter the Asian market.
América Móvil is the Mexican multinational that presents the highest sales index abroad: more than 600,000 million pesos.
It is also the company that has the largest number of employees outside the country.
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Coca-Cola Femsa, also called just Femsa, is a beverage distribution company. This company is present in Latin America and Asia.
It produces approximately 20 million dollars a year, of which 70% comes from the Latin American market, while the remaining 30% is obtained from the Asian market.
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Arca continetal is in charge of bottling and distributing Coca-Cola products. This company is present in Mexico, Central America and the United States. It is the second distributor in Latin America, after Femsa.
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KidZania is an amusement park for children and teenagers. This park is a replica of a city but made to scale.
In this way, children feel like adults and adolescents are giants. This multinational has offices in Portugal, South Korea, Dubai, Japan and Indonesia.
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The KUO group is a multinational company that concentrates its activities in four sectors: automotive, chemical, real estate and food.
With regard to the food industry, the group has expanded in recent years, with the acquisition of Fresherized Foods.
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The Televisa group is a company in the media and telecommunications sector. It is the largest television station in Latin America.
The programming produced by said group is broadcast throughout Latin America and is also the United States.
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Cemex in a company that is responsible for the production of cement and other construction materials.
This Mexican multinational has headquarters in more than 40 countries, including China, Israel, Latvia, Egypt and Croatia.
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Mexichem is a multinational in the chemical industry. This company is the # 1 producer of plastic tubes in Latin America.
This is the Mexican company that has expanded the most around the world. It presents more than 120 plants distributed in 50 countries.
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It is a multinational in the food and beverage industry. It is a network of restaurants that operates in Mexico and Latin America.
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The Envases Universales company has distribution centers on three continents (America, Europe and Asia) and in the following countries Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala and the United States, Sweden, Denmark, South Korea and China.
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It is one of the Mexican multinationals that is important to the Indian economy.
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This Mexican company belongs to the agri-food sector and is in charge of making corn and wheat-based products, among which corn tortillas, corn starch, calcified corn flour, wheat flour and starch stand out.
The Gruma group has offices in America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. This is why it constitutes one of the groups with the greatest presence in the world. It ranks below Bimbo in the agri-food sector.
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The Carso group is a multinational that has operations in different sectors of the industry: textile, infrastructure, construction, among others.
The diversity of interests of this company has made it present in many countries in the form of department stores, construction companies, telecommunications companies, among others. In fact, América Móvil belongs to this group.
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This is a company in the petrochemical sector, mainly. The Alfa group also works in the automotive sector, in the energy sector and in the telecommunications sector.
The Alfa group has headquarters in more than 15 countries. This multinational is one of the group of Mexican companies that is attracting the attention of the Indian and Hungarian markets.
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Sigma Alimentos is an attached group of Alfa, which is in charge of the agri-food sector. It is present in more than 13 countries.
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This multinational is responsible for the production of cisterns, water tanks, among others.
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Elementia is a Mexican multinational that has relationships with América Móvil. This company is responsible for the production of articles based on copper, aluminum and cement. This multinational is based in more than 15 countries.
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This is a company that deals with the production of canned goods. This multinational sells products in more than 40 countries.
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Company in charge of building and distributing automotive parts.
References
- 10 Largest Companies in Mexico. Retrieved on August 2, 2017, from careeraddict.com
- Group Bimbo. Retrieved on August 2, 2017, from grupobimbo.com
- FEMSA. Mexico. Retrieved on August 2, 2017, from femsa.com
- KidZania. Retrieved on August 2, 2017, from en.wikipedia.org
- Cemex. Retrieved on August 2, 2017, from cemex.com
- Carso Group. Retrieved on August 2, 2017, from en.wikipedia.org
- Mexichem. Retrieved on August 2, 2017, from mexichem.com