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Criminal Cartel Threatens Mexican Baked Goods Company Bimbo,Owned By Billionaire Servitje Family

By Dolia Estevez, Contributor

The billionaire Servitje family of Mexico, led by Roberto Servitje, owns Grupo Bimbo, Mexico’s largest bakery company, with household brands including Nutella and Sara Lee sold throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Grupo Bimbo is being threatened by the criminal group Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar). The organization, a savage cartel that operates in the drug-plagued Mexican state of Michoacán,  has threatened to burn trucks owned by Bimbo, Marinela (the pastries division of Grupo Bimbo),  Barcel (a Bimbo unit that makes tortillas, potato chips and snacks) and Sabritas (a Pepsi-Cola subsidiary that makes snacks),  if they distribute their products during the next three weeks in the state’s Apatzingán region,  Mexico City’s leading daily, Reforma, reported on April 17.

From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/doliaestevez/2013/04/18/criminal-cartel-threatens-bimbo-mexican-baked-goods-company-owned-by-billlionaire-servitje-family/