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Grupo Empresarial Ángeles
Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA) is a Mexican corporation owned by Olegario Vázquez Raña and founded in 1998. It owns assets in the communications, healthcare, tourism and financial services industries. Its director general is Olegario Vázquez Aldir. History GEA was formally founded in 1998 by Vázquez Raña, though its history dates to 1986 and the acquisition of Hospital Humana (now Hospital Ángeles de Pedregal). GEA has grown rapidly through acquisitions, particularly in the 2000s and 2010s. 1999 saw it acquire the Camino Real hotel chain, which formed the cornerstone of its tourism and hospitality business. In 2003, it bought Grupo Imagen. 2006 saw the acquisition of Multiva, its financial services unit, and of the ''Excélsior'' newspaper and channel 28 in Mexico City, the precursor to its Imagen Televisión national network. In 2014, GEA, through its Grupo Imagen unit, bought Querétaro FC out of government administration. This came after the previous owner of the te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olegario Vázquez Raña
Olegario Vázquez Raña (born 10 December 1935) is a Mexican entrepreneur, businessman, owner of several companies, and the chairman and principal shareholder of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles. He is married to María de los Angeles Aldir and he is the father of Olegario Vázquez Aldir, one of the richest businessman in Mexico. Sports career Vázquez Raña was a member of Mexico's shooting team at all Olympic Games from 1964 to 1976 and all world championships from 1966 to 1979. He is the national record-holder in many shooting disciplines and the world record-holder in air rifle (1973 and 1975). Sports administration *President of the Mexican Shooting Federation (1975 - 1992). *Lifelong Honorary President (1992 - ). *Vice-President of the Mexican Sports Confederation (1983 - 1992). *Permanent member of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) (1969 - ). *President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) (1980 - 2018). *President of the Shooting Confederation of the Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olegario Vázquez Aldir
Olegario Vázquez Aldir (born April 28, 1972, Mexico City) is a Mexican businessman and the director general of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles. With an estimated private net worth of 5.6 billion dollars as of 2022. Life Vázquez Aldir was born to Olegario Vázquez Raña, the founder of GEA, and María de los Ángeles Aldir. He received an undergraduate degree in business administration from the Universidad Iberoamericana and a master's degree in healthcare administration from Boston University in the United States. He was named director general of GEA in 2000. With an estimated net worth of 5.6 billion dollars. Under his management, GEA has grown in size by acquiring Grupo Imagen, ''Excélsior'' and cadenatres in the media sector, as well as the 2014 acquisition of Querétaro FC Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHTRES-TV
XHTRES-TDT was a full-power television station in Mexico City, Mexico, broadcasting in digital on UHF channel 27. From 2006 to 2015, it was the flagship station of the now defunct network cadenatres and from 2013 to 2020, it was the flagship station of the Excélsior TV news network. It is licensed to Compañía Internacional de Radio y Televisión, S.A. (CIRT), which is owned by Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA), a company headed by Olegario Vázquez Raña and directed by Olegario Vázquez Aldir, through its Grupo Imagen communications unit. The current programming of XHTRES, since February 1, 2020, is the Heraldo Televisión news network. History An unbuilt station On November 21, 1964, the office of the Secretary of Communications and Transportation (SCT) granted a 25-year concession to CIRT (unrelated to the '' Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Radio y Televisión'', the Mexican broadcasters' association, which is also abbreviated CIRT) and to its controlling sharehold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imagen Televisión
Imagen Televisión is a national broadcast television network in Mexico, owned by Grupo Imagen. It launched on October 17, 2016, at 8 p.m. History Imagen on television In 2006, Imagen's parent, Grupo Empresarial Ángeles, acquired XHRAE-TV channel 28 in Mexico City from its previous owner, beleaguered businessman Raúl Aréchiga Espinoza, for US$126 million. Imagen already owned radio stations in Mexico City and other major cities nationwide. The next year, GEA relaunched the station as "cadenatres", with the ambition of functioning as Mexico's third broadcast network. Despite this and national basic cable carriage, cadenatres only had a handful of local affiliates. On October 26, 2015, cadenatres was shuttered and replaced with news outlet Excélsior TV as Imagen began preparing to launch its national network. A new national network In 2014, the Federal Telecommunications Institute began a bidding process to make available packages of new national television networks. Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Excélsior
''Excélsior'' is a daily newspaper in Mexico City. It is the second oldest paper in the city after '' El Universal'', printing its first issue on March 18, 1917. History ''Excélsior'' was founded by Rafael Alducin and first published in Mexico City on March 18, 1917. In 1924, Alducin died at the age of 35, and his family led the newspaper into difficult times. Ultimately, it was reconstituted as a worker-owned cooperative in 1932, with one-time accountant Gilberto Figueroa named general manager. His ability to manage finances and broker compromise within the newspaper contributed to a successful 30-year reign, in which the newspaper would become politically and economically stable. Beginning in 1968, the newspaper's editorial stance was of a relatively liberal bent, under the editorship of Julio Scherer García. After Scherer left the newspaper in 1976, the editorial stance became more overtly supportive of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Mexican establishm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHTRES-TDT
XHTRES-TDT was a full-power television station in Mexico City, Mexico, broadcasting in digital on UHF channel 27. From 2006 to 2015, it was the flagship station of the now defunct network cadenatres and from 2013 to 2020, it was the flagship station of the Excélsior TV news network. It is licensed to Compañía Internacional de Radio y Televisión, S.A. (CIRT), which is owned by Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA), a company headed by Olegario Vázquez Raña and directed by Olegario Vázquez Aldir, through its Grupo Imagen communications unit. The current programming of XHTRES, since February 1, 2020, is the Heraldo Televisión news network. History An unbuilt station On November 21, 1964, the office of the Secretary of Communications and Transportation (SCT) granted a 25-year concession to CIRT (unrelated to the ''Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Radio y Televisión'', the Mexican broadcasters' association, which is also abbreviated CIRT) and to its controlling shareholder, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Querétaro FC
Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi language, Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Querétaro, 18 municipalities. Its capital city is Santiago de Querétaro. It is located in north-central Mexico, in a region known as Bajío. It is bordered by the states of San Luis Potosí to the north, Guanajuato to the west, Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo to the east, State of Mexico, México to the southeast and Michoacán to the southwest. The state is one of the smallest in Mexico, but also one of the most heterogeneous geographically, with ecosystems varying from deserts to tropical rainforest, especially in the Sierra Gorda, which is filled with microecosystems. The area of the state was located on the northern edge of Mesoamerica, with both the Purépecha Empire and Aztec Empire having influence in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liga MX
The Liga MX, officially known as the Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional football division in Mexico, holding 2 tournaments per year. The league is considered the strongest in North America, and among the strongest in all of the Americas. According to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, the league currently ranks 20th worldwide and was ranked as the 10th strongest league in the first decade of the 21st century (2001–2010). According to CONCACAF, the league – with an average attendance of 25,557 during the 2014–15 season – draws the largest crowds on average of any football league in the Americas and the third largest crowds of any professional sports league in North America, behind only the National Football League and Major League Baseball, and ahead of the Canadian Football League. It is also the fourth most attended football league in the world behind Germany's Bundesliga, England's Premier League and Spain's La Liga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camino Real Hotels
Camino Real Hotels is a Mexican-based hotel chain that operates 18 hotels in Mexico. History The first hotel to use the Camino Real name was the Camino Real Guadalajara, opened in 1958. The name of the hotel was taken from that given by 16th century Spaniards to the road that led to the capital of New Spain, today known as Mexico. In 1960, Banamex and a group of private investors created Hoteles Camino Real. Their efforts would be bolstered in 1962 with an affiliation agreement with Western International Hotels (renamed Westin in 1980). The relationship between Westin and Camino Real established the first internationally backed luxury hotel chain in Mexico and ended 31 years later, in 1993. In 2000, Camino Real was bought by business group Grupo Empresarial Ángeles for US$252 million. The deal included six hotels plus operating rights to 16 total hotels. Currently there are 18 Camino Real hotels in Mexico. Grupo Real Turismo, the unit of GEA that operates hotels, also operate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolsa Mexicana De Valores
The Mexican Stock Exchange ( es, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores), commonly known as Mexican Bolsa, Mexbol, or BMV, is one of two stock exchanges in Mexico, the other being BIVA - Bolsa Institucional de Valores. It is the second largest stock exchange in Latin America, only after São Paulo based B3 in Brasil. It is also the fifth largest stock exchange in the Americas. The exchange platform is owned by BMV Group, which also owns the derivative exchange ''MexDer'' and the custody agency ''Indeval''. The BMV was created out of the merger of the three stock exchanges which formerly operated in Mexico: The ''Bolsa de Valores de México'', which operated in Mexico City, the Bolsa de Occidente (''Occidental Stock Exchange'') in Guadalajara, and the Bolsa de Monterrey (''Monterrey Stock Exchange''). The exchange kept modernising until its introduction of a fully electronic system for trading which was consolidated in 1999. In 2014, the Mexican Stock Exchange completed its first trade as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grupo Empresarial Ángeles
Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA) is a Mexican corporation owned by Olegario Vázquez Raña and founded in 1998. It owns assets in the communications, healthcare, tourism and financial services industries. Its director general is Olegario Vázquez Aldir. History GEA was formally founded in 1998 by Vázquez Raña, though its history dates to 1986 and the acquisition of Hospital Humana (now Hospital Ángeles de Pedregal). GEA has grown rapidly through acquisitions, particularly in the 2000s and 2010s. 1999 saw it acquire the Camino Real hotel chain, which formed the cornerstone of its tourism and hospitality business. In 2003, it bought Grupo Imagen. 2006 saw the acquisition of Multiva, its financial services unit, and of the ''Excélsior'' newspaper and channel 28 in Mexico City, the precursor to its Imagen Televisión national network. In 2014, GEA, through its Grupo Imagen unit, bought Querétaro FC out of government administration. This came after the previous owner of the te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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