Eugenio Garza Lagüera built a huge empire in creating Femsa, Latin America's number one beverage corporation which sells highly profitable beers and also owns the world's second-largest Coca-Cola bottler. The wave shape (known as the dynamic ribbon device) present on all Coca-Cola cans throughout the world derives from the contour of the original Coca-Cola bottles. ...
Although ITESM is a relatively new institution, it awards the largest number of engineering degrees after the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and is one of the most or the most important private school in Mexico and Latin America.
The ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) was founded in 1943 by a group of businessmen, headed by EugenioGarza Sada, in Monterrey, Mexico.
South of the Santa Catarina river, the Loma Larga separates Monterrey from the suburb of San Pedro Garza García.
It was highly controversial due to its cost, its design (which appears to have been cribbed from Santiago Calatrava), and the fact that the river it crosses is dry.
EugenioGarza Sada also founded, in 1943, the largest private university in Latin America, the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, ITESM, or Tec).