San Luis Potosi In addition to being a state with great natural, architectural and cultural wealth, it is also the birthplace of ventures thatThey have conquered not only the people of Potosí, but all of Mexico and in some cases they have even managed to cross the borders, here we present the brands most representative that were born in this state.
The brand has 55 years of history, its founder is Leticia Serment Cabrera, who proudly shared that the history of Provi snacks is simplified to “work, the work of an entire family, without technologies, brands or labels; I work without ever losing sight of the quality of the product, those are the roots of Provi.”
Leticia Serment prepared snacks for her family, meetings and also some patron events, that’s where the idea of start selling snacksmainly potatoes and peanuts, and today it has spread to a whole range of snacks.
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This Potosí brand has its roots from 1890in the municipality of Cedral, San Luis Potosiat the hands of a humble family that had a grocery business called “La Frontera”, and that upon having contact with the purchase of cocoa He began to produce chocolates by hand, later a businessman from Potosí bought the chocolate production business and settled in the capital.
In an old house, the old factory was improvised in eThe San Miguelito neighborhood.
Luis Eugenio Gómez Compeangeneral manager of Chocolates La Fronteranarrates that it was years later, when on February 28, 1991, a company was formally established to promote the project, becoming an absolutely family business.
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A brand that has named San Luis Potosi very high, it has positioned itself as a market leader, exporting its products to more than 40 countries. Canels It was founded in 1925specializing in manufacturing chewing gum and sweets.
The success of the brand has been based on the fact that from its beginnings until today it has been led and operated by the García Navarro family. Canel’s currently operates four confectionery production plants in San Luis Potosí.
At meetings and gatherings between friends and family, bottles of bottled water can never be missing. Lourdesthis is the brand of mineral water that is bottled from San Luis Potosí in the Magic Town of Santa María del Río.
The municipality that is the birthplace of the rebozo is also the birthplace of the favorite mineral water of the people of Potosí and many Mexicans. He Lourdes spa It still treasures the traces of what the bottling company was in its beginnings in 1937.
An old factory with stone foundations, visitors can still see the place where the bottles were filled, some machinery and, following the path, the water spring where the sculpture of the virgin is also located, which alludes to the one found in France.
The brand that this year reaches 60 years of operationsstarted under the name “Potosí Industrial” with just 16 employees working on a trailer tow, where they built the company’s first bicycle on a workbench. Given the growth and acceptance of bicycles in 1994 it was founded Alubikebeing the first manufacturers of aluminum frames in Latin America.
In 1997 they reached more than 5 million bicycles produced. The brand managed to diversify and extend its range to other cycling products, however that was not all, since in 2006 the brand designed for Olympic cycling, “Krbo”, was created.
In 2019 it opened its new plant in San Luis Potosí under the conviction of promoting a cycling cluster in the region. Its complex covers more than 130 thousand square meters distributed in two industrial warehouses with a capacity to produce up to 800 thousand units per year.
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