Grupo Brimbo Corporate Social Responsibility

Bimbo, was founded in 1945 by a Spanish immigrant to Mexico, few months after ending World War II. By 2016, the company produces more than 10,000 products and has 171 plants in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Central and South America, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom and China. From the year 1997, Grupo Bimbo began an aggressive expansion process thought two forms: direct investment and acquisition (purchase of companies). In 1980, the company was listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange as a part of this expansion strategy. Since then, Grupo Bimbo has made around 14 acquisitions. The largest were made from 2009, when It was bought George Weston Foods in the US for 2.505 million dollars; Since then, it has allocated around 5,575 million