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Mexico City, April 17, 2024 – Grupo Herdez®, a leader in the food industry in Mexico, announces the appointment of Angela Gómez Aiza as a new member of its Board of Directors.

Angela Gómez Aiza is an outstanding leader in the technology industry, with a track record of 28 years of experience and a solid commitment to the digitalization of the country. She is Co-Founder of SOS-TechIA-bility, a services company focused on sustainability and new technologies.

From January 2021 to February 2024, Angela served as the first President of SAP Mexico, consolidating the firm’s leadership in the Mexican market and promoting clients’ digital transformation. With a team of more than a thousand employees and a broad portfolio of cloud solutions, Angela drove growth and innovation in a highly competitive environment.

This appointment, ratified during the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held on April 17, aims to maintain the diversity of the Board, as well as incorporate Angela’s experience into Grupo Herdez’s most ambitious digital transformation project so far. Angela Gómez will take the place of Anasofia Sánchez Juárez, who presented her resignation from the Council for personal reasons.

“We are excited to welcome Angela Gómez Ariza to our Board of Directors,” said Héctor Hernández-Pons Torres, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Grupo Herdez®. “His vast experience, as well as his commitment to innovation and excellence, will be very important elements for the Group at such an important moment in our digital transformation.”

Angela has a degree in Systems Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey and an MBA from the same institution. In 2023 she was named President of the Council of AMITI (Mexican Association of the Information Technology Industry), and has been recognized as one of the “100 Most Powerful Women in Business in Mexico” by Expansión magazine, and in the list of “The Most Powerful Women in the country” by Forbes Mexico in multiple occasions.

In 2023, the consulting firm HORSE included Angela among the top 20 places in the “CEOs Change Makers” ranking. More recently, the consulting firm Great Place to Work included her in its list of the “Best CEOs” thanks to her corporate and leadership practices.

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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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