BILLIONAIRE FEMALE
Kerry A. Dolan Forbes Staff Leadership
Eva Gonda de Rivera
Net worth: $7.6 billion
Source Of Wealth: Beverages
Residence: Monterrey, Mexico
Citizenship: Mexico
Marital Status: Widowed
Children: 5
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Eva Gonda Rivera is the widow of Eugenio Garza Laguera, the former chair of FEMSA, Latin America’s biggest independent Coca-Cola bottler and distributor. It has operations in 9 Latin American countries. Eugenio, who died in 2008, left his large stake to his wife Eva and four daughters. The company is making greater inroads in the drugstore retail market after it acquired Farmacias Farmacon, a leading pharmacy chain in northern Mexico, in December 2014, for an undisclosed price. Gonda Rivera and her daughters tend to eschew the spotlight in Mexico.
