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Grupo AJE

Grupo AJE, known as AJE Group, is a Peruvian family-owned beverage multinational founded in 1988 in Ayacucho, known for the low-priced Kola Real and Big Cola brands.

Grupo Albanesi

Grupo Albanesi is an Argentine business group founded in 1929 that generates electric power and trades natural gas, operating ten thermal plants in Argentina and Peru.

Grupo Aval

Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. is a Colombian financial holding company controlling four commercial banks, the largest private pension fund, and the largest merchant bank in Colombia.

Grupo Bafar

Grupo Bafar is a family-controlled Mexican food group based in Chihuahua, founded by Eugenio Baeza in 1983 and listed on the Mexican stock exchange since 1996.

Grupo Bimbo

Grupo Bimbo (Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V.) is the world's largest baking company, founded in Mexico City on 2 December 1945. It operates directly in 39 countries with sales over US$23 billion, brands including Bimbo, Marinela, Barcel, and Takis, and trades on the BMV as BIMBO.

Grupo Bio Ritmo

Grupo Bio Ritmo is a São Paulo-based fitness group founded by Edgard Corona, which opened its first gym in 1996 and now runs Smart Fit, Latin America's largest gym network.

Grupo Bolívar

Grupo Bolívar S.A. is a Colombian financial holding company, created by spin-off in 1996, owning insurer Seguros Bolívar, founded in 1939, and Banco Davivienda, and designated a financial holding in 2019.

Grupo Bom Futuro

Grupo Bom Futuro is a family-held Brazilian agribusiness group based in Mato Grosso, led by Eraí Maggi Scheffer, farming soybeans, corn, and cotton on 880 thousand hectares.

Grupo Carso

Grupo Carso is a Mexican conglomerate controlled by the family of Carlos Slim, operating retail, industrial, construction, materials, energy, and hydrocarbons businesses, including Texas pipelines.

Grupo Catalana Occidente

Grupo Catalana Occidente is a Spanish insurance group operating through the Occident, Atradius, and Mémora brands; the Serra family delisted it from the stock market in December 2025.

Grupo Cifra

Grupo Cifra was a Mexican retail group founded by the Arango brothers, which grew from a 1958 discount store into Mexico's largest retailer before Walmart took control in 1997 and renamed it in 2000.

Grupo Clima

Grupo Clima, or grupo de Clima, was a circle of São Paulo intellectuals who founded the magazine Clima in 1941 and became the leading critics of their generation in Brazil.

Grupo de Barranquilla

The Grupo de Barranquilla was a circle of writers and artists in Barranquilla, Colombia, from the late 1940s, decisive in the young Gabriel García Márquez's formation.

Grupo de Guayaquil

Grupo de Guayaquil was a circle of five Ecuadorian writers, founded in 1930, who practiced social realism about the coast's montubio people, Indigenous people, and workers.

Grupo De Inversiones Suramericana

Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana, known as Grupo SURA, is a Colombian investment holding company based in Medellín that holds stakes in SURA Asset Management, Suramericana, and Bancolombia.

Grupo Elektra

Grupo Elektra, S.A.B. de C.V., is a Mexican retail-and-banking conglomerate controlled by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, selling household goods on weekly installment credit through its own bank, Banco Azteca.

Grupo Especial de Operaciones

Grupo Especial de Operaciones (GEO), Spain's Policía Nacional counter-terrorism and hostage-rescue unit, founded 1977-1978 on the GSG-9 model, based in Guadalajara, with five-man commands and a seven-month selection course.

Grupo Falabella

Grupo Falabella is a Chilean retail and financial-services group that began as a Santiago tailoring shop in 1889 and now runs Falabella, Sodimac, Tottus, Mallplaza, and Banco Falabella.

Grupo Familia

Grupo Familia, originally URIGO and Scott de Colombia S.A., is a Colombian consumer goods group founded in Medellín in 1958, known for the Familia tissue brand.

Grupo Fernández

Grupo Fernández is a norteño group from Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, known for the corrido "La Fuga Del Dorian" and named for founding accordionist Fernando León.

Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival

Grupo Financiero Banamex-Accival, known as Banacci, was a Mexican financial group formed in 1991 when investors led by Accival bought Banamex, sold to Citigroup in 2001 for $12.5 billion.

Grupo Frontera political controversy

Grupo Frontera political controversy: 2025 backlash against the Texas norteño band over alleged Trump support, sparked by a deleted "Y.M.C.A." TikTok video, a Change.org petition, the band's denials, and documented disinformation.

Grupo Galicia

Grupo Galicia, also known as Grupo Financiero Galicia, is an Argentine financial services holding company whose main asset is Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires, founded in 1905.

Grupo Hapvida

Grupo Hapvida is a Brazilian health-plan operator headquartered in Fortaleza, Ceará, founded as a clinic by oncologist Cândido Pinheiro Koren de Lima in 1979 and combined with Notre Dame Intermédica in 2022.

Grupo Hermes; Grupo Financiero Interacciones

Grupo Hermes is a Mexican industrial and infrastructure conglomerate owned by Carlos Hank Rhon; its financial arm, Grupo Financiero Interacciones, merged into Banorte in 2018.

Grupo Hurtado Vicuña

Grupo Hurtado Vicuña, also known as the Hurtado Vicuña Group, is a Chilean family business group built by six siblings, co-controlling Consorcio Financiero and holding stakes in Entel, Pucobre, and Cementos Polpaico.

Grupo Inbursa

Grupo Financiero Inbursa is a Mexican financial group controlled by Carlos Slim's family, operating banking, insurance, pensions, and asset management through Banco Inbursa and other subsidiaries.

Grupo Lecaros Menéndez

Grupo Lecaros Menéndez is a Chilean family business group based in Santiago, once among Chile's top fishing groups through Pesquera Coloso, now investing through Duncan Fox in hotels and food.

Grupo Mexico

Grupo Mexico, formally Grupo México, S.A.B. de C.V., is a Mexican mining and transportation conglomerate controlled by the Larrea family and one of the world's largest copper producers.

Grupo Modelo

Grupo Modelo, also known as Cervecería Modelo, is a Mexican brewery founded in 1925. Part of AB InBev since 2013, it brews Corona Extra and Modelo Especial.