'Miss Bimbo website promotes extreme diets and surgery to 9-year-olds'. ↑ 'Bimbo Game 'Fuels Pressure On Youth'.↑ 'J's 1UP Blog: Ma Bimbo/Miss Bimbo'.There is currently an alternative website called Like A Fashionista, owned by Beemoov, which is almost identical to the former Miss Bimbo website. Blighty Ltd., the company which owns Miss Bimbo, still has Miss Bimbo on its portfolio list of sites as of February 2015. Traffic to redirects to, which launched on March 1, 2015. Defenders of the game claim that the criticism is unfair and out of proportion. We have some ideas for new brands, we want to expand Miss Bimbo with social networks.'. Jacquart has said that he is working on ways to expand the site and reach out to the media to explain why 75,000 people per day log into the site 'without any marketing or ads on the site at all. During the first 100 days of his Administration, 2,882 people were killed in Mexico, 41 of them in Michoacán, according to Reforma’s “ejecutómetro” (a homicide barometer used to count drug-related deaths in Mexico.The site was criticized in much media coverage as promoting the use of cosmetic surgery and crash dieting, encouraging potentially pre-teen players to pursue an 'ideal' body image through such measures as the key to success The violence did not stop with the inauguration of President Enrique Peña Nieto in December 2012. Galvez called on law-enforcement authorities to investigate the threats and keep them informed.įor the past six years, the Washington-backed war on drugs waged by former President Felipe Calderon, a Michoacán native, caused an unprecedented surge in violence: 70,000 people have died in drug-related violence and 26,000 have gone missing from 2006 to 2012. They didn’t give a reason for their threats, but in May of 2012, the organization’s armed commandos set fire to Sabritas facilities in Michoacán and the neighboring state of Guanajuato, alleging that Sabritas lent trucks to the Mexican Army to carry out “undercover operations” against them.Ĭarlos Galvez, President of Michoacán’s Business Council, said that the Council was concerned with the threats and asked the state and federal governments to take them seriously and strengthen security in the state. If you are found distributing in these places your trucks will be burned down,” the group threatened in a flyer also posted on social media sites. “Beginning this week we are telling you that you are banned from supplying your products in the towns of Buenavista, La Ruana and Tepalcatepec, Michoacán. In March, authorities found bodies of seven men tied up in plastic chairs placed along the side of a street. Located in Western Mexico, the state of Michoacán has seen more than its share of violence in recent years as rival drug cartels fight for control of the state’s Pacific ports and clashes between gunmen and federal police have intensified. The organization, a savage cartel that operates in the drug-plagued Mexican state of Michoacán, has threatened to burn trucks owned by Bimbo, Marinela (the pastries division of Grupo Bimbo), Barcel (a Bimbo unit that makes tortillas, potato chips and snacks) and Sabritas (a Pepsi-Cola subsidiary that makes snacks), if they distribute their products during the next three weeks in the state’s Apatzingán region, Mexico City’s leading daily, Reforma, reported on April 17. Grupo Bimbo is being threatened by the criminal group Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar).

The billionaire Servitje family of Mexico, led by Roberto Servitje, owns Grupo Bimbo, Mexico’s largest bakery company, with household brands including Nutella and Sara Lee sold throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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