Grupo Elektra is a Mexican financial and retail conglomerate founded in 1950 by Hugo Salinas Price and now controlled by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, headquartered in Mexico City. It operates through commercial and financial divisions, running Elektra stores, Italika motorcycles and Salinas y Rocha retail alongside Banco Azteca, Seguros Azteca, Punto Casa de Bolsa and Afore Azteca, with more than seven thousand points of contact across Mexico, the United States and Central America and about 74,643 employees as of 2025. In December 2024 shareholders voted with more than 95 percent approval to delist the company from the Mexican Stock Exchange and take it private. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The company currently operates over seven thousand points of contact across Mexico, United States, and Central America, through two business divisions: commercial and financial.
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