FEMSA Press Release

September 27th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - Below please find the provisional financial publication dates for ARCADIS NV (Euronext: ARCAD) in 2010. Please include these dates in your financial calendar.

July 27th, 2009 MONTERREY, Mexico - Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. ("FEMSA") announced today its operational and financial results for the second quarter of 2009.

July 8th, 2009 MONTERREY, Mexico - Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. ("FEMSA") (NYSE: FMX; BMV: FEMSAUBD) is pleased to invite you to participate in its Second Quarter 2009 Conference Call that will be held on: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:00 AM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Mexico City Time) Javier Astaburuaga, Chief Financial Officer of FEMSA, will host the call and discuss FEMSA's 2nd quarter 2009 financial results, followed by a question and answer session.

June 29th, 2009 MONTERREY, Mexico - Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. ("FEMSA") (NYSE: FMX) filed its annual report on Form 20-F with the U.S.

June 23rd, 2009 OTTAWA - - Highlights Include Mac Cocoa Support, Domain-Specific Language Modeling and Updates to Equinox; Multi-Language Support Immediately Available For the sixth year in a row, the Eclipse community has delivered its annual release train on its scheduled date. Galileo, the 2009 release train, is the largest ever release from the Eclipse community, comprising 33 projects and over 24 million lines of code.

May 21st, 2009 HALIFAX - More than half of Home-owners (55%) have undertaken home improvements during the past 12 months, according to new research from Halifax. The average amount spent on home improvements (not including adding space) over the last 12 months was GBP5,300.

April 29th, 2009 MONTERREY, Mexico - Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. ("FEMSA") (NYSE: FMX; BMV: FEMSAUBD) announced today its operational and financial results for the first quarter of 2009.

April 26th, 2009 DITTON PARK, England - New and Enhanced Solutions Help CIOs Deliver Optimal Customer Experience, Drive Revenue and Increase IT Efficiency CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA), the world's leading independent IT management software company, today announced 13 new and enhanced Enterprise IT Management (EITM) products that help CIOs achieve Lean IT by reducing waste, increasing productivity and improving the customer experience.

April 12th, 2009 MONTERREY, Mexico - Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. ("FEMSA") (NYSE: FMX; BMV: FEMSAUBD) is pleased to invite you to participate in its First Quarter 2009 Conference Call that will be held on: Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:00 AM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Mexico City Time) Javier Astaburuaga, Chief Financial Officer of FEMSA, will host the call and discuss FEMSA's 1st quarter 2009 financial results, followed by a question and answer session.

March 24th, 2009 MONTERREY, Mexico - Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: FMX; BMV: FEMSAUBD) ("FEMSA" or the "Company") held its Annual Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting today, during which shareholders approved, as required under Mexican securities law, the Company's annual report for 2008 presented by the Board of Directors, the Company's consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2008, the declaration of dividends corresponding to fiscal year 2008 and the composition of the Board of Directors and Committees for 2009.

June 11th, 2009 Venezuela calls Coca-Cola Zero harmful, bans saleCARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's health ministry has banned the sale of Coca-Cola Zero, claiming the no-calorie soft drink contains harmful ingredients. Health Minister Jesus Mantilla says the ban is aimed at "preserving the health of Venezuelans," but he hasn't specified what ingredients are purportedly harmful.

March 22nd, 2009 KABUL - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai described terrorists as the enemies of peace in his country and strongly condemned the terrorist attack in eastern Nangarhar province that claimed the lives of six persons on the first day of Afghan New Year Saturday. 'The president said the enemies of Afghanistan by carrying out such coward attacks have shown that they want nothing except killing Afghans and destruction of Afghanistan,' said a press release issued by Presidential Palace.

July 1st, 2009 Sanford backs out of vow to release records to APCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov.

July 1st, 2009 Sanford backs out of promise to release recordsCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov.

January 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Pop superstar Prince has lined up three albums to be released in 2009. According to thesun.co.uk, his first release 'Mplsound' will feature more of a 1980s sound in which he collaborated with rapper Q-Tip and claims it was made using 'new ways of recording'.

March 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Paramount and DreamWorks have decided on July 1, 2011 to be the release date for 'Transformers 3'. Paramount insiders have revealed that studio bosses made this move because they wanted to claim the date before any competitor did, considering that the 2011 summer release calendar is filling up.

December 23rd, 2008 CHENNAI - The eagerly awaited Aamir Khan-starrer 'Ghajini' will be released Thursday, as scheduled, as the Madras High Court Wednesday lifted a stay on its release. A division bench of Justices V.

September 1st, 2009 Budget cuts accelerate prison reform in ColoradoDENVER — Colorado officials plan to release roughly 15 percent of the state's 23,000 prisoners early to help slash millions of dollars from the state budget. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti says budget cuts that took effect Tuesday call for the release of 3,500 inmates in Colorado prisons during the next two years.

January 15th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A Maoist press release announcing the expulsion of one of Orissa's most wanted left-wing rebels appeared in some newspapers here Friday, creating a flutter in the state. The release on the letterhead of the Communist Party of India-Maoist, faxed Thursday to some media organisations in the state capital, announced that the party has expelled its Orissa unit secretary Sabyasachi Panda for anti-party activities.

May 31st, 2009 SINGAPORE - Britain challenged Sunday Myanmar's military rulers to release imprisoned opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and implement democratic reforms in the isolated state. "Now is the time for transition to democracy starting with the release of Aung San Suu Kyi," Britain's Minister for International Defence and Security Ann Taylor told a summit on Asian security in Singapore.