:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/KRY6C4FK25HELEAJCADJDQ4GZU.jpg "The CEO of FEMSA, the company that owns Oxxo stores, has been diagnosed with cancer 1")
The CEO of the Mexican bottler and retailer FEMSA, Daniel Rodriguez, was recently diagnosed with Colon Cancer and will continue in his position while he is being treated, the company said Monday.
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FEMSA (Fomento Económico Mexicano) controls the Coca-Cola bottling company FEMSA and operates the Oxxo convenience store chain.
“I have just started my treatment and I am happy to share that so far everything has progressed as planned,” Rodríguez said in a statement from FEMSA.
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Daniel Rodríguez Cofré was announced for the position from October 2021, although he took office on January 1, 2022. “Under his leadership, FEMSA’s Health Division became a regional hub, while the Fuel Division’s operations in Mexico were consolidated. In addition, he served as an alternate director on the boards of Coca Cola FEMSA and FEMSA,” the company detailed in a statement.
Rodríguez Cofré joined FEMSA in 2015 as Corporate and Financial Director; A year later, he was appointed General Manager of FEMSA Comercio and it was from this position that he contributed to maintaining the leadership of Oxxo stores nationwide as well as opening new commercial avenues with South America.
FEMSA finds its origins at the end of the 19th century. In 1890, five northern Mexican businessmen founded what is now known as the Cuahtémoc Brewery, then called the Cuauhtémoc Ice and Beer Factory.
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With some name changes and closures, the company managed to consolidate and in 1921 one of its departments became another company, dedicated to the production of bottle caps.
Expansion continued in other areas, which included the establishment of schools such as ITESM (Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) and in 1978 it opened the first Oxxo store.
Its headquarters are in the city of Monterrey, but it is present in 11 countries in the Americas as well as in the Philippines.
It is currently the largest bottler of Coca-Cola in the world.
The first Oxxo store opened in Monterrey in 1978. At that time, they only sold beers, snacks and cigarettes. Its name comes from the percentage symbol (%), because that is how it was announced.
Barely a year after the opening of this first store in the capital of Nuevo León, there were already branches in other northern Mexican states such as Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua, where these establishments were established thanks to to their good reputation.
In 1998, the 1,000th branch was opened and in 2011, with a presence throughout Mexico, the 9,000th store was inaugurated in Oaxaca.
*With information from Reuters