Eugenio Garza Lagüera

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name = Eugenio Garza Lagüera


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birth_date = 18 December 1923
birth_place = Monterrey, Mexico
death_date = 24 May 2008
death_place = Monterrey, Mexico
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resting_place = Del Carmen Cemetery [citeweb |author = Luciano Campos Garza | publisher = Proceso | title = Homenaje luctuoso en Monterrey a Eugenio Garza Lagüera | url = http://www.proceso.com.mx/noticia.html?sec=2&nta=59517 | language = Spanish | accessdate = 2008-06-01 ]
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residence = Monterrey, Mexico
nationality = Mexican
alma_mater = University of Texas, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
employer = Femsa
occupation = CEO
home_town = Monterrey, Mexico
title = Honorary Life Chairman of the Board (Femsa and ITESM)
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successor = José Antonio Fernández
boards = Femsa, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Bank of Mexico, National Bank of Commerce, Wells Fargo Bank, Southwest Research Institute and El Paso Corporation citeweb |author=Femsa |title=Business Social Responsibility Award to Don Eugenio Garza Lagüera (Biographical Sketch) | url=http://www.femsa.com/en/about/philosophy/don-eugenio-garza-lagera.htm |accessdate=2008-05-25|]
religion = Roman Catholic
spouse = Eva Gonda Rivera
children = Five daughters
parents = Eugenio Garza Sada and Consuelo Lagüera Zambrano
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Eugenio Garza Lagüera (18 December 1923 – 24 May 2008) was a prominent Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and Femsa, Latin America's largest beverage corporation. In February 2008 he was laureated with the "Business Social Responsibility Award" from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a nonpartisan institution created by the U.S. Congress within the Smithsonian Institution. [citeweb|author=Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars|title=Don Eugenio Garza Lagüera honored with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship in Monterrey|url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.item&news_id=369007|date=2008-02-19|]

Biography

Garza Lagüera was born in Monterrey as the first son of industrialist Eugenio Garza Sada and Consuelo Lagüera Zambrano. After finishing high school at the Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis, Missouri, he received a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas and an MBA from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, a prominent private university sponsored by his father. [citeweb|author=Femsa|title=Management bios| url=http://www.femsa.com/en/press/management-bios.htm|accessdate=2008-05-25|]

He began his professional life at a laboratory of "Técnica Industrial" in 1947. In 1969 he was appointed to the Grupo Visa's board of directors, which he chaired starting 1981. He also presided over the Serfín Bank during the peso devaluation of 1982 and the subsequent nationalization of all private banks. Grupo Serfín lost half its size at that time and had to be reorganized accordingly. In 1991 when the government decided to re-privatize the banking system, Eugenio Garza Lagüera bought the Bancomer Banking Group.

Garza Lagüera, 84, died on 24 May 2008 in Monterrey, Nuevo León. [citeweb |author = Thomas Black | publisher = Bloomberg | title = Mexican Businessman Garza Laguera Dies at 84 | url = http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aCpfKAvPqBFI&refer=latin_america | accessdate = 2008-06-01 |]

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