Mexico City: Mexico's top brewer Grupo Modelo said on April 19 its shareholders agreed to a 0.8523 peso dividend payment, up 54 % in real terms from the dividend paid in 2003, under the Reuters’ report. Modelo, maker of the popular Corona beer and with seven plants across Mexico, said in a statement it would make a one-time payment for the dividend on April 26.

21 April, 2004