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.
- FEMSA's Board named Jose Antonio Fernández Garza-Lagüera as CEO, effective November 1st, 2025, following a structured succession process.
- Since the middle of last year, the Corporate Practices and Nominations Committee and the Special Committee chaired by Ricardo Saldívar Escajadillo oversaw the CEO succession process per FEMSA's February 27, 2025 earnings release.
- Leading FEMSA Proximity & Health, Garza-Lagüera manages 28,000+ stores across 11 countries, and FEMSA acquired Delek US Holdings' 249 convenience stores in late 2023.
- José Antonio Fernández Carbajal will remain Executive Chairman, preserving leadership stability during the handover, and FEMSA said the transition maintains strategic continuity while adding Garza-Lagüera's `assertive and results-driven style`.
- As FEMSA expands into the U.S., Garza-Lagüera will take charge as the company continues its first-ever expansion with Oxxo store conversions begun earlier this year, impacting more than 392,000 employees across 18 countries.
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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,…
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