Lorenzo Servitje His son, Daniel Servitje Montull, is currently the Chairman and CEO of Grupo Bimbo. Dignitaries in attendance at Servitje's funeral included Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, chairman of Grupo Carso Carlos Slim, and billionaire businessman Alberto Baillères. Lorenzo Servitje Lorenzo Servitje Sendra, commonly known as Lorenzo Servitje, (November 20, 1918 – February 3, 2017) was a Mexican accountant, businessman magnate, and philanthropist who co-founded Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest bakery company, in 1945 with a group of four business partners, including Jaime Jorba, Jaime Sendra, Alfonso Velasco and José T. Mata. Servitje is credited with expanding Bimbo from a small,
Grupo Bimbo Bimbo has been listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange since 1980 and is a constituent of the IPC, the main benchmark index of Mexican stocks. In 2016, Forbes magazine ranked Grupo Bimbo at #986 on the Forbes Global 2000, an annual ranking of the top 2,000 public companies in the world. The company Grupo Bimbo was started in Mexico in 1945 by Lorenzo Servitje, José T. Mata, Jaime Sendra, Jaime Jorba and Alfonso Velasco. Over fifteen years, under the leadership of Daniel Servitje, current Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Group, it has established itself as a global