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Grupo Bimbo, S.A.B. de C.V. (also known simply as Bimbo) is a Mexican multinational food company with a presence in over 33 countries located in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. [1] It has an annual sales volume of 15 billion dollars [ 2 ] and is listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange with the ticker BIMBO.
Bimbo Bakeries USA then entered the U.S. bread market in 1997 with the acquisition of Pacific Pride Bakeries of San Diego. The company grew again in 1998 with the purchase of Mrs Baird's Bakeries in Texas, which at the time was the largest family-owned bakery in the U.S. The combined operations were renamed Bimbo Bakeries USA (BBU).
Bimbo is a fat, black and white cartoon pup created by Fleischer Studios. He is most well known for his role in the Betty Boop cartoon series, where he featured as Betty's main love interest. [ 2 ] A precursor design of Bimbo, [ citation needed ] originally named Fitz , first appeared in the Out of the Inkwell series.
The word bimbo derives from the Italian bimbo, [4] a masculine-gender term that means "little or baby boy" or "young (male) child" (the feminine form of the Italian word is bimba). Use of this term began in the United States as early as 1919, and was a slang word used to describe an unintelligent [ 5 ] or brutish [ 6 ] man.
Bimbo was a British comic book magazine aimed at children in nursery school. [1] It ran from 1961 until 1972 [1] and was published by D.C. Thomson & Co. The magazine was named after its main feature Bimbo, which was a comic strip about a little boy. [1] The magazine was comparable to the magazine Little Star.
Later comics, such as Aventuras de un matrimonio aun sin bautizar (later known as Aventuras de Don Tallarín y Doña), followed, and by 1917, Las diabluras de Tijereta was one of the lone strips that still put text at the bottom of each picture. Billiken, a children's magazine started in 1919, already included some cartoons.
Bimbo's Initiation is a 1931 Fleischer Studios Talkartoon animated short film starring Bimbo and featuring an early version of Betty Boop with a dog's ears and nose. [2] It was the final Betty Boop cartoon to be animated by the character's co-creator, Grim Natwick , prior to his departure for Ub Iwerks ' studio.
Bimbo (musical group), an Indonesian religious vocal group; Bimbo Jet, a French Euro disco group, known for their hit "El Bimbo" Bimbo (Virgin album), 2004; Bimbo (Jim Reeves album), 1957 "Bimbo" (song), a 1954 song by Jim Reeves, covered by Gene Autry "Bimbo", a 2001 single by Lambretta "Bimbo", a song by Yello, from the album Solid Pleasure