Grupo Santos: Plan de Ayala, Alianza Popular, Bellavista, San Gabriel, and San Cristobal Empresas Santos was born in 1991; founded by Alberto Santos de Hoyos in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. He had inherited from a long tradition in the food industry the sugar agribusiness acquiring four sugar mills that had been owned by the federal government of Mexico. After several years of investing in the present day factories, acquiring other units of production, and applying modern administration, the group Ingenios Santos became an important player in the Mexican sugar industry contributing about ten percent of the national sugar production and placing its factories among the most efficient in the country. above: Ingenio San Cristobal right: Western States TITAN Batch Machines before starting the campaign at Plan de Ayala 215