Grupo Herdez reports changes in their board of directors

Mexico City, Mexico, January 8, 2019 – Grupo Herdez, S.A.B. de C.V. (“Grupo Herdez” or the “Company”) (MSE: HERDEZ) announced that its Board of Directors, at the meeting held on October 25, 2018, accepted the resignation of Carlos Autrey Maza as a member of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors, with effect from that same date.

In the next Board of Directors, the appointment of Anasofía Sánchez Juárez Cardoze, as Provisional Counselor will be submitted for approval, for subsequent ratification at the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting to be held in April 2019. Anasofía is the current CEO of Waze México, a platform that connects the largest community of drivers around the world.

Before joining Waze, Anasofía was Director of Business in Mexico and Central America on Facebook, a position she held for over five years. Previously, she served as Brand Solutions Manager for Google and was Commercial Leader for YouTube Mexico.

She has a degree in Marketing from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, and a Master’s degree in Communication, Advertising and New Media from the National Institute of Economics and Commercial Economics (INSEEC) of France. She also has studies at HEC Paris and the University of Wharton, Philadelphia. She is a professor in the Internet Business Master at the Instituto Superior para el Desarrollo de Internet (ISDI).

2020

2020

  • 2020: In collaboration with La Costeña® and Sanfer®, we delivered 35,000 basic food baskets to benefit more than 175,000 Mexicans affected by the COVID-19 health contingency.

    We launched the first edition of Semillero Nutrisa®, a program to support Mexican women entrepreneurs to participate in a training and business development program.

  • 2021: We became the first consumer company in Latin America to partner with Google, a global technology giant, to accelerate our digital transformation. 

    We signed an agreement with the American company General Mills® to distribute their products in Mexico, with which we entered the categories of cereal bars and prepared dessert flours.


    We celebrated the 80th anniversary of Doña María® mole with the inauguration of Casa Doña María Pons, headquarters of Fundación Herdez® in San Luis Potosí.

    We were placed in the report “Mexican Companies for the 2030 Agenda in the Decade of Action” of the Global Compact, for the actions of the Saber Nutrir® program as a reference practice to achieve Zero Hunger, one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.

  • 2022: We acquired Interdeli and Deli, Dips & Snacks, expanding our capabilities to new categories such as hummus, cheeses, and dips, integrating brands such as Libanius, Flaveur, Liguria, and Señor Cactus into our portfolio.

    For the first time in our history, we brought the best of Mexican cuisine to the United Kingdom with the Herdez® brand, through a joint alliance with McCormick & Company, Inc.

    We issued the first sustainability-linked bond in the food industry in Mexico, committing to reduce our water consumption per ton produced by 2030.

    We signed the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPS), reaffirming our commitment to gender equality.

    We joined the UN’s CFO Coalition for the SDGs, which drives the transformation of corporate finance to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda.

    We joined the Pacto por la Comida of the BAMX Network, an initiative that promotes more sustainable food production and consumption systems, with the goal of reducing Food Loss and Waste in the industry.

  • 2023: We consolidated the integration of Chilim Balam® into the Impulse segment portfolio, with which we positioned ourselves in the candy and snack category in the retail model.

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