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Expansion
Editor
| Eladio Gonzalez
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Categories
| Business
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Founder
| John Christman, Harvey Popell and Gustavo Romero Kolbeck
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First issue
| January 29, 1969
; 55 years ago
(
1969-01-29
)
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Company
| Grupo Expansion, S.A. de C.V.
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Country
| Mexico
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Based in
| Mexico City
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Language
| Spanish
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Website
| expansion
.mx
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Expansion
is a
Spanish-language
news
magazine
targeted to business markets in
Mexico
and
Latin America
created in 1969
[1]
and redesigned in 1999. While most business media in Mexico focus on
macroeconomic
and
political
aspects,
Expansion
is set apart by its coverage of the people and ideas that drive the private sector in Mexico.
Expansion
is the flagship publication of
Grupo Expansion (GEx)
, founded in 1966. In 2005, GEx was bought by
Time Inc.
[2]
In 2007,
Expansion
and
CNN
jointly launched a website specializing in
business
,
economic
, and
financial
aspects in
Mexico
and
Latin America
. The site was originally launched as
CNNExpansion.com
as an adaptation modeled on
CNNmoney.com
for the Latin American market.
[
citation needed
]
Private equity firm Southern Cross Group acquired GEx in 2014.
[3]
In 2015, the parent of
El Economista
acquired GEx from Southern Cross.
[4]
Expansion
includes more advertising pages than any other magazine in Mexico for more than 10 years only in the last 3 years has it been surpassed by its sister publication: Who magazine.
[5]
With 51,000 copies aimed at an executive segment (93% senior management),
Expansion
has been the authority on business in Mexico for more than 50 years and has almost twice the circulation of its closest competitor.
[6]
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