OCTUBRE 2014 * AÑO XLV * ISSN 0185-2728
contents
IN DEPTH
40 TRUSTS BUSTED?
Peña nieto´s reform package includes laws to
promote competition. A power shift may not be imminent.
46 SINKING FEELING
Citygroup´s BANAMEX got into hot water lending
to a suspicious Pemex service provider.
53 SLIM REPORT
NOT STOPPING HIM.
Mexico´s
biggest tycoon is forging ahead and diversifying.
61 TAP TILL YOU DROP
Mobile shopping has great potential in
Mexico.
68 MASTER OF EFFICIENCY
Grupo Modelo´s new owners –of Heinz and
Burger King fame-make profits froth.
73 TORTILLA TURNAROUND
A generational change pufs up results at
Gruma.
76 SOARING SPIRIT
Smoky mezcal: another authentic Mexican elixir becomes a new glamour drink.
IN
BRIEF
10 BLOCK PARTY
Where
the oil fields are.
12
READY TO GO
Mexican
oil firms join the fray.
14
WALLMART STALLS
Fewer
Walmarts near you.
16
SODA MINUS THE POP
Consumption
slows.
Q&A
18
A CONFIDENT HOTELIER
Alex
Zozaya, Apple Leisure Group.
GLOBAL REACH
20
ALSEA EXPANDS
Starbucks
everywhere.
22
YOUNG INNOVATORS
Mexican
startups.
24
ONE BIG CLIENT
Many
pacts, but trade is not diversified.
26
2015 GROWTH
SECTORS
A slow-moving economy will get a kick from reforms and fiscal
spending.
COVER STORY
80 MEXICO´S BIG Q´S
Opening
the energy sector ends the state monopoly.
Will
investment come?
Can
it increase production and grow the economy?
VOICES
30 WHERE
MEXICO IS NOW
Angel
Gurría, organisation for economic co-operation and development.
32 MEXICAN STARTUPS
Antonio
Garza, Fmr.U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
34 PARTNERING FOR ENERGY
Marvin
Odum, Royal Dutch Shell.
36 UNLOCKING MEXICO´S POTENCIAL
Arif
M. Naqvi, Abraaj Group.
38 IMPROVING ANTI-CRIME POLICY
Vanda
Felbab-Brown, Brookings Institution.
BONUS
90 LONG LUNCHES
In
this flavorful social ritual, business is sandwiched in.
94 TOP OF THE LINE
Hotels
that cater to your work, leisure and family needs.
96 MEXICO CITY´S GEMS
There´s
a lot more here tan the usual tourist traps.
