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Mexican industrial magnate Bernardo Garza Sada dies at age 79
Associated Press
11/07/09 10:30 PM EST
MEXICO CITY — 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.
