Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma
| Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma | |
|---|---|
| legal form | SA de CV (Sociedad Anónima de Capital Variable) |
| founding | 1890 |
| Seat | Monterrey , Nuevo León , Mexico |
| management | Owner: Heineken NV |
| Number of employees | 26,025 in Mexico and Brazil, 2008 |
| sales | 42.4 billion pesos , December 2008 |
| Branch | beverages |
| Website | www.cuamoc.com |
The Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma is a brewery based in Monterrey , Mexico . It was created in 1988 through the merger of the Cuauhtémoc breweries from Monterrey and Moctezuma from Orizaba . Other forms of the name are: Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, CuaMoc, CCM and CM.
As FEMSA Cerveza, the company is the third division of the retail and beverage group Fomento Económico Mexicano (FEMSA) and has been owned by Heineken since 2010 , making FEMSA its second largest shareholder.
The company operates breweries in Monterrey , Tecate , Navojoa , Guadalajara , Toluca , Orizaba and Meoqui . It produces around 3.09 million hectoliters . The company employs over 20,000 people in Mexico.
history
The Cuauhtémoc Brewery was founded on November 8, 1890 by Isaac Garza Garza and José Calderón with the support of Joseph A. Muguerza, Joseph M. Schnaider and Francisco Gómez Sada with an initial capital of 15 million pesos in Monterrey, Nuevo León . It initially operated under the name of the factory Hielo y Cerveza Cuauhtémoc , which then changed to Cervecería Cuauhtémoc . The first brand of beer was Carta Blanca , which is still produced today. The Cuauhtémoc brewery was also the nucleus of the Fomento Económico Mexicano (FEMSA).
Beer brands
The company produces some well-known Mexican beers such as:
- Carta Blanca
- Indio
- Sol
- Bohemia
- Tecate
- Dos Equis XX
- Moctezuma
- Noche Buena
- Sito de Kaiser
- Casta
- Superior
Indio
Sol
Tecate
Bohemia
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notification of the owner ( memento of the original from May 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FEMSA Cerveza went 100% to Heineken NV in 2010 in exchange for shares from the new owner: FEMSA holds 9.245% shares in Heineken NV and 14.94% in Heineken Holding NV Status: January 2011, accessed on March 27 2011
- ^ Heineken buys brewer of Sol and Dos Equis beer. In: BBC News of January 11, 2010, accessed March 27, 2011
- ↑ Brand description of FEMSA Cerveza ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , English, accessed March 26, 2011
- ↑ Brand description of FEMSA Cerveza ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Spanish, accessed March 26, 2011
Web links
- Official Website (Spanish)