US EditionFemsa Announces Senior Leadership Succession Plan
Jose Antonio Fernández Garza-Lagüera, with extensive FEMSA leadership experience, will lead the $50 billion retail company from Nov 1, 2025, ensuring strategic continuity.
- Yesterday, FEMSA's Board appointed Jose Antonio Fernández Garza-Lagüera as CEO effective November 1st, 2025, following a well-executed succession process, FEMSA said.
- Following its senior leadership succession plan detailed earlier this year, FEMSA said oversight by the Corporate Practices and Nominations Committee and a Special Committee chaired by Ricardo Saldívar Escajadillo recommended the CEO appointment.
- Leading FEMSA Proximity & Health, Garza-Lagüera manages over 392,000 colleagues and led FEMSA's late-2023 Delek US Holdings acquisition.
- José Antonio Fernández Carbajal will remain Executive Chairman, preserving leadership stability during the handover, while FEMSA said the transition maintains strategic continuity and welcomes Garza-Lagüera's 'assertive and results-driven style'.
- The shift positions Garza-Lagüera to oversee FEMSA's first-ever U.S. expansion, which over the past year involved store conversions and impacts more than 180,000 employees across 11 countries.
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The Mexican company has announced that it will be directed from next November by Jose Antonio Fernández Garza-Lagüera. The entrepreneur will take the post of his father, José Antonio El Diablo Fernández Carbajal, who is interim director since July 2023 and who will continue as executive president of the firm. “With his strategic focus and his assertive and results-oriented leadership style, Jose Antonio will guide Femsa to a new stage of economi…
Who is José Antonio Fernández Garza-Lagüera? This is the newly appointed director general of FEMSA who will assume the position from next November 1st. This was announced by the Mexican Economic Development conglomerate, S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA), by means of a statement in which he offered a look of the new general director.
Fomento Económico Mexicano announced that Jose Antonio Fernández Garza-Lagüera, one of the three children of José Antonio Fernández Carbajal and Eva María Garza Lagüera Gonda, will assume the position of Director General of the company as of November 1, 2025, as part of the succession plan of leadership in the regional company that owns the Oxxo brands. Currently, Fernández Garza-Lagüera is acting as Director General of FEMSA Proximidad & Salud,…
FEMSA announced that, from November 1, Jos Antonio Fern ndez Garza-Lag was to be the new director general of the compa a.
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