Loma Negra enhanced its market leadership position in subsequent years by the opening of important new facilities and the acquisition of a chief competitor, Cementos San Martín S.A.[4] The business was enhanced further by her purchase of 65% in Ferrosur Roca, a state-owned freight and passenger railway that became Loma Negra's in-house transport service when Economic Minister Domingo Cavallo had it privatized in 1992.

[5] That year, Fortabat broke ground on the group's new headquarters in the Catalinas Norte office park, in downtown Buenos Aires.

[4] Complications from debts of US$270 million stemming from a national economic crisis around 2001 were reportedly compounded by Mrs. Fortabat's choice of her eldest grandson, Alejandro Bengolea, as Director in 2000.

[6] The owner of various, valuable Buenos Aires properties, as well as 40 estancias totaling 160,000 hectares (395,000 acres), she sold her Manhattan penthouse atop the Pierre Hotel in 2011 for nearly US$20 million.

[9] After giving her support to the Peronist political movement of President-elect Carlos Saul Menem, Fortabat complained in 1989 that a major failing of Raúl Alfonsín had been his lapse into "cronyism.

"[10] She cultivated a strong relationship with Menem, who later appointed her as a plenipotentiary ambassador, a privilege later revoked by Néstor Kirchner upon her sale of her 80% stake in Loma Negra to Brazilian conglomerate Camargo Corrêa in 2005.