FEMSA Files 2007 SEC Annual Report

Monterrey, Mexico, June 30, 2008 - Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. ("FEMSA") (NYSE: FMX) filed its annual report on Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.

The report is available on FEMSA's investor relations website at http://ir.femsa.com/sec.cfm. Shareholders may receive a hard copy of the report, which includes FEMSA's audited financial statements, free of charge through the contact below.

FEMSA is the leading beverage company in Latin America. It controls an integrated beverage platform that comprises Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the region; FEMSA Cerveza, one of the leading brewers in Mexico, with presence in Brazil, and an important beer exporter to the United States and other countries; and Oxxo, the largest and fastest growing convenience store chain in Mexico with over 5,600 stores.