Webcast Alert: Grupo Elektra Announces Second Quarter 2005 Results Conference Call

MEXICO CITY, July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Grupo Elektra, S.A. de C.V. announces the following Webcast:

What: Grupo Elektra Second Quarter 2005 Results When: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 @ 11:00 a.m. EDT

Where: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/playerlink.zhtml?c=82928&s=wm&e=1104149

How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above.

Contact: Rolando Villarreal, +011-52-55-1720-0041, rvillarreal@elektra.com.mx

If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived at http://www.grupoelektra.com.mx . To access the replay, click on Investor Relations Section.

Grupo Elektra is Latin America's leading specialty retailer, consumer finance and banking services company. Grupo Elektra sells retail goods and services through its Elektra, Salinas y Rocha, Bodega de Remates and Elektricity stores and over the Internet. The Group operates more than 1,000 stores in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Peru. Grupo Elektra also sells and markets its consumer finance, banking and financial products and services through its more than 1,440 Banco Azteca branches located within its stores, as a stand-alone, and in other channels in Mexico and Panama. Banking and financial services include consumer credit, personal loans, money transfers, extended warranties, savings accounts, term deposits, pension-fund management and insurance.