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Grupo Bimbo

Baked goods and snacks · Mexico

Grupo Bimbo is the world's largest baking company: it makes bread, buns, cakes, cookies, tortillas and snacks in 249 bakeries in 39 countries and delivers them fresh to stores through more than 54,000 of its own routes.

What makes it different

Mexico is a third of sales but over half of profit.

55.4%Mexico share of Adjusted EBITDAFY2025

Bimbo's home market earns far higher margins than its larger US business, funding expansion abroad.

How big it is

How big is Grupo Bimbo?

54,000+Delivery routesFY2025
153,966AssociatesFY2025
How it makes money FY2025

Most sales now come from outside Mexico.

  • North America45%MX$190.2B
  • Mexico32%MX$154.8B
  • EAA13%MX$54.2B
  • Latin America10%MX$44.1B
How the business works

Bake near shoppers. Deliver daily. Buy bakeries.

  1. 1249 local bakeries
  2. 254,000 own routes
  3. 3Bolt-on bakery acquisitions

Bread goes stale in days, so owning the route to the shelf is the moat, and every acquired bakery plugs into it.

Who owns it
  • Normaciel, S.A.P.I. de C.V.40.96%
  • Promociones Monser, S. de R.L. de C.V.12.78%
  • Philae, S.A. de C.V.5.41%

CEO: Alejandro Rodríguez Bas

Who it competes with
Key moments
  1. 1945Panificación Bimbo founded in Mexico City
  2. 1978Barcel snacks and Ricolino candy
  3. 1980Listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange
  4. 1990International expansion begins in Guatemala
  5. 2009Weston Foods deal creates Bimbo Bakeries USA
Sources

Every number on this page comes from Grupo Bimbo's own reports.

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What Grupo Bimbo tracks20 metrics
Direct delivery routes
Bakeries and plants
Packaged product volume
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
Revenue
Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from4 regions
North America
Mexico
Europe, Asia & Africa
The full timeline19 moments
2014
2017
2024
Grupo Bimbo vs Mondelēz Internationalside by side
Revenue
Profit
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