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Walmart Owns Most of the Supermarkets in Mexico

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Walmart Owns Most of the Supermarkets in Mexico

The U.S. and Mexico have influenced each other in many ways over the course of their history, through both the exchange of culture and the cross-border trade of goods and services. One lesser-known area of overlap between the two nations? Supermarket ownership.

This graphic from Latinometrics ranks supermarket popularity in Mexico by tallying the number of locations per chain, and showing who owns those brands.

Mexico’s Relationship with Walmart

When it comes to supermarkets in Mexico, no single company comes close to matching the reach of Walmart. Also the world’s largest company by revenue, Walmart has over 2,700 stores in the country, including chains it owns such as Sam’s Club and Bodega Aurrera. The latter is both the largest supermarket within the Walmart category, and also the most popular in Mexico.

Bodega Aurrera was first established in the 1970s, two decades before Walmart entered Mexico’s market directly in 1991. The discount store now has some 2,000 locations across the country.

In fact, it’s almost safe to say that Mexico is Walmart’s second home. After the U.S., which has just over 5,000 stores, the greatest number of Walmart stores reside in Mexico. But on a per capita basis, there are more Walmart-owned stores in Mexico. Specifically, there is about one Walmart-owned store per 47,000 Mexicans, compared to 62,000 for Americans.

CountryNumber of Walmart Stores
USA5,342
Mexico2,755
Central America864
UK*632
China397
Africa414
Canada408
Chile384
Japan*328
India29

Source: Walmart.com, Statista (International figures, January 2022), *Japan/UK figures from January 2021

The company’s presence in Mexico is so strong that Walmart’s Mexico division trades separately on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) under the name Walmex. In March of 2022, Walmex had a market cap above 1.3 trillion pesos, or $64 billion.

Supermarkets in Mexico by Revenue Market Share

Overall, with the thousands of stores that they operate, Walmart’s revenue in Mexico gives it a 68% market share within the country’s supermarket industry.

Other American grocery retailers to make the list include H-E-B, a San Antonio-based chain with stores in northeast Mexico, and Costco, which opened its first Mexican location in 1992 as Price Club (before the companies merged).

Sorianna, the next biggest supermarket operator, holds about 15% of the industry’s market share. It is joined by Chedraui, Casa Ley, La Comer, and Alsuper as Mexico’s biggest domestic grocery chains, with some of them also extending their reach into the Southwest United States.

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Ranked: The World’s Most Valuable Bank Brands (2019-2023)

This infographic ranks the 10 most valuable bank brands over the past five years (Spoiler: U.S. banks aren’t in the top four)

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The World’s Most Valuable Bank Brands (2019-2023)

Since 2019, Chinese banks have held the top four spots on Brand Finance’s Banking 500—an annual ranking of the most valuable bank brands.

Brand value in this context is a measure of the “value of the trade mark and associated marketing IP within the branded business”. In other words, it measures the value of intangible marketing assets, and not the overall worth of the business itself.

In this infographic, we’ve visualized the Banking 500’s top 10 brands since 2019 to show you how the ranking has evolved (or stayed the same).

Top Bank Brands of 2023

The 10 most valuable bank brands of 2023 are evenly split between China and the United States. In terms of combined brand value, China leads with $262 billion to America’s $165 billion.

RankBankBrand Value (USD billions)
1🇨🇳 ICBC$69.5
2🇨🇳 China Construction Bank$62.7
3🇨🇳 Agricultural Bank of China$57.7
4🇨🇳 Bank of China$47.3
5🇺🇸 Bank of America$38.6
6🇺🇸 Wells Fargo$33.0
7🇺🇸 JP Morgan$31.8
8🇺🇸 Chase$31.3
9🇺🇸 Citi$30.6
10🇨🇳 China Merchants Bank$24.5

Chinese banks have a massive market to serve, which helps to lift the perceived value of their brands. For example, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) serves over 500 million individuals as well as several million business clients.

It’s worth noting that ICBC is the world’s largest bank in terms of assets under management ($5.5 trillion as of Dec 2021), and in terms of annual revenues ($143 billion as of Dec 2022). The bank was founded just 39 years ago in 1984.

After ICBC, the next three spots are occupied by the rest of China’s “big four” banks, all of which are state-owned.

The fifth to ninth spots on this ranking are occupied by an assortment of America’s largest banks. Despite a string of controversies in recent years, Wells Fargo rose from eighth in 2022 to sixth in 2023. This goes to show that large corporations can often recover from a scandal in a relatively short period of time (e.g. Volkswagen’s Dieselgate).

Coming in tenth is China Merchants Bank, which is China’s first “joint-stock commercial bank wholly owned by corporate legal entities”.

Top Asset Management Brands

Brand Finance’s 2023 ranking also includes a separate category for asset managers.

RankAsset ManagerBrand Value (USD billions)
1🇨🇦 Brookfield$9.0
2🇺🇸 Fidelity$8.4
3🇺🇸 BlackRock$6.6
4🇺🇸 Blackstone$4.9
5🇨🇳 Cinda International Holdings Limited$3.2
6🇺🇸 Vanguard$2.9
7🇺🇸 Union Investment$2.3
8🇺🇸 Franklin Templeton Investments$2.1
9🇺🇸 Ameriprise Financial$2.0
10🇺🇸 Invesco$1.5

Given America’s leadership in financial markets, it’s no surprise to see eight out of the 10 firms listed here as being based in the United States. The number one spot, however, is held by Canada’s Brookfield. The Canadian alternative asset manager is building a strong brand through its investments in renewable energy and other high-value infrastructure.

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