President Sheinbaum, Marcelo Ebrard, and Kia México's Andy Kim used the daily mañanera to make the Pesquería EV line official. It's the first fully electric vehicle assembled in Mexico, retooling the existing plant rather than building a mirror complex. Batteries next.
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Chipotle’s first Mexico restaurant opened in San Pedro Garza García, adding another U.S. brand launch to the Monterrey metro’s playbook — and putting Alsea’s “next 20 years” expansion narrative in the spotlight.
Bachoco is upgrading its Monterrey-area feed plant with dust controls, filtration and a switch toward natural gas — a small but concrete signal of where compliance capex is flowing in Nuevo León.
The Ministry of Economy's semester tally is in: US$46.96B announced nationwide, and Nuevo León took 12% of it. The projects are pointed at advanced manufacturing, electromobility, logistics, and energy — with 6,120 direct jobs attached. What's less obvious in the headline: the state's ability to keep converting announcements into ground-broken sites is what will decide whether this ranking holds through H2.
New EV assembly lines, energy infrastructure upgrades, and a water-efficiency retrofit for the Korean automaker's Pesquería complex. Three hundred direct jobs in the announcement — but the read-through is the Tier-1 Korean supplier network that Kia's expansion pulls in behind it.
The company's second Nuevo León data center is live in Nexxus Aeropuerto with 30,000+ sq ft of colocation space. Phased expansion continues through 2030.
A director mis-hire in Mexico costs 1.5x to 3x compensation. Jose J. Ruiz walks through the six 2026 mistakes that trigger turnover and stalled operations.
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