Bimbo founders’family backgrounds included a longstanding tradition ofbread-making, going back to 1918, whenJuan Servitje,Lorenzo and Roberto’s father,patented hisHigiénica Múltiple Póo, the first Mexico machine for manufacturing the much-beloved white-bread bunknown in Mexico as abolillo.José Jorba and Jaime Palomas Sendra—founders of the El Molino storefront bakeries—worked beside them inServitje’sfacility.