Jumex

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Jumex

Type
Founded	April 27, 1961
Headquarters	Mexico City, Mexico
Key people	Eugenio Lopez Alonso
Industry	Foods
Products	Fruit juices, nectar, children's drinks, milk, energy drinks, and sports drinks
Website	www.jumex.com.mx

Jumex is a popular brand of juice and nectar in Mexico. The Jumex brand is also popular among Hispanic consumers in the United States. Currently, the Jumex Group (which manufactures Jumex) offers lines of fruit juices, nectar, children's drinks, milk, energy drinks, and sports drinks in Mexico.

[edit] History

The origins of Jumex lie with Fruit and Juice Packing, Inc. (Empacadora de Frutas y Jugos, S.A.) and its Frugo brand, which were founded on April 27, 1961. The first flavors were apricot, apple, guava, mango, pear, and plum. The actual Jumex brand and its "little blue can" was introduced in 1964. The current company associated with Jumex and other popular beverage brands is the Jumex Group, which consists of Frugosa, Botemex, Jugomex, Alijumex, Vilore Services Corp., Vilore Services, and Vilore Foods, Inc. (U.S.) [1]

The first Jumex production plant outside México is under contruction, in the Republic of El Salvador ( Central America ), to be inaugurated in 2oo7.

[edit] La Colección Jumex

The Colección Jumex, also known as the Jumex Collection, is a large private contemporary art collection owned by Eugenio López Alonso, the Grupo Jumex food-processing heir. It is said to be the largest private contemporary art collection in Latin America, with works by Jeff Koons, Andreas Gursky and Gabriel Orozco.

The museum is located on the sprawling grounds of the Jumex factory in the industrial outskirts of Mexico City. It is about 19.5 km from Mexico City on the Carretera Libre Mexico-Pachuca.