MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican industrial conglomerate Grupo Alfa says the company's former president has died.

Alfa spokesman Enrique Flores said Bernardo Garza Sada died Saturday. He did not give a cause of death in an e-mail message.

Garza Sada is credited for helping build Grupo Alfa into a diversified petrochemicals, food, auto parts and telecom conglomerate with revenues of $10.6 billion in 2008.

The newspaper Reforma said Garza Sada was 79, and that he is survived by his wife and three children.