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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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olegario Vázquez Raña
Olegario Vázquez Raña (10 December 1935 – 28 March 2025) was a Mexican businessman who was the owner of several companies and the chairman and principal shareholder of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles. 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 was 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 (1992–2025) *Vice-President of the Mexican Sports Confederation (1983–1992) *Permanent member of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) (1969–2025) *President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) (1980–2018) *President of the Shooting Confederation of the Americas (1979–2025) *Member of Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) Council (1987–2025) Perso ... [...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 executive director of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles. With an estimated net worth of US$9.3 billion as of 2024, he is considered one of the richest, powerful and most influential Mexicans. Vázquez Aldir studied a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration at the Universidad Iberoamericana; later, he pursued postgraduate studies in Administration at Boston University, another postgraduate degree in Strategic Planning at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and a postgraduate degree in Health Administration and Strategic Planning at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Biography He was born in Mexico City on April 28, 1972, and started working at a very young age, combining professional experience with his studies. In 1996, he took office as the general director of Hospital Ángeles del Pedregal. In the year 2000, he was appointed corporate general director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHTRES-TV
XHTRES-TDT (channel 10) was a television station in Mexico City. From 2006 to 2015, it was the flagship station of the now defunct network cadenatres and from 2013 to 2020, it was the flagship of the Excélsior TV news network. It was 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. XHTRES programming, from February 1, 2020, to May 6, 2022, was 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, Roberto Nájera Martínez, for a television stat ... [...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. ... [...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 (Mexico City), El Universal'', printing its first issue on March 18, 1917. The newspaper's headquarters are located at Avenida Bucareli 1 in Colonia Juárez, Mexico City, at the intersection between that avenue and Paseo de la Reforma, which is known as (the "Information Corner" or "News Corner" in Spanish), since the headquarters of ''El Universal'' are also within this area. The historic building of its headquarters is located between Paseo de la Reforma 18 and Avenida Bucareli 17, next to the modern building. History Originating from the weekly journal Revista de revistas, ''Excélsior'' was founded by :es:Rafael Alducin, Rafael Alducin and first published in Mexico City on March 18, 1917. Before choosing its current location, the headquarters were initially set at the corner between the streets of Colón and Rosales (this corner no longer exists, it was located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHTRES-TDT
XHTRES-TDT (channel 10) was a television station in Mexico City. From 2006 to 2015, it was the flagship station of the now defunct network cadenatres and from 2013 to 2020, it was the flagship of the Excélsior TV news network. It was 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. XHTRES programming, from February 1, 2020, to May 6, 2022, was 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, Roberto Nájera Martínez, for a television station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Querétaro FC
Querétaro, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro, is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 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 to the east, 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 the extreme south, but neither really dominating it. The area, especially the Sierra Gorda, had a number of small city-states, but by the time the Spanish arrived, the area was independent from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liga MX
Liga MX, also known as Liga BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Mexico and the highest level of the Mexican football league system. Formerly known as Liga Mayor (1943–1949) and also as Primera División de México (1949–2012), it has 18 participating clubs, with each season divided into two short tournaments, ''Apertura'' from July to December and ''Clausura'' from January to May. The champions are decided by a final phase called ''"liguilla"''. Since 2020, promotion and relegation has been suspended, which is to last until 2026. The league currently ranks first in CONCACAF's league ranking index. According to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, IFFHS, Liga MX was ranked as the 10th strongest league in the first decade of the 21st century. According to CONCACAF, the league – with an average attendance of 25,557 during the 2014–15 Liga MX season, 2014–15 season – draws the largest crowds on averag ... [...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 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolsa Mexicana De Valores
The Mexican Stock Exchange (), 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 Brazil. 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 part of MILA which, togethe ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
