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Mexican magnate Bernardo Garza Sada dies at 79

Mexican industrial magnate Bernardo Garza Sada dies at age 79

  • On 9:35 pm EST, Saturday November 7, 2009

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican industrial conglomerate Grupo Alfa says the company's former president has died.

Alfa spokesman Enrique Flores said Bernardo Garza Sada died Saturday. He did not give a cause of death in an e-mail message.

Garza Sada is credited for helping build Grupo Alfa into a diversified petrochemicals, food, auto parts and telecom conglomerate with revenues of $10.6 billion in 2008.

The newspaper Reforma said Garza Sada was 79, and that he is survived by his wife and three children.

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