La family business it is one of the most important foundations of a prosperous society. Relationship of the Family businesses most important in Spain and a brief review of them.
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-Everyone- Food (11)ballve - carasso - carula - Costafreda; Rivera - Dam - Daurella - Fernandez Lopez - Ferro; Fortune - Hernandez Callejas - Osborne - Paschal -
ballveIn 1952 José Luis Ballvé founded the company Campofrío SA. In 1977 he sold half of the company's shares to Beatrice Good, a fact that allowed him to send his son Pedro Ballvé to study in the United States. After the death of his father and after 8 years of training at General Foods in Chicago, Pedro Ballvé returns to take over the management of the company, helped by his brother Fernando de él. In 2006, the Ballvé family takes control of Telepizza. View source Date: 09-09-2021 |
carassoIsaac Carasso was the creator of the Danone brand. The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, affiliated with the Fondation de France, is a family foundation chaired by Marina Nahmias, their daughter and founder. Its objective is to finance projects related to two major areas that contribute to the fullness of the human being in a habitable world: - Food, to sustain life. - Art, to enrich the spirit. View source Date: 22-08-2021 |
carulaThe Carulla family is the founder of the Agrolimen company. 3 generations of the family saga, controlling one of the largest conglomerates in the food sector. In 1964 it was Lluís Carulla i Canals who founded the company, which was later continued by his sons Lluís and Artur. Currently, some of the children of the 6 Cariño-Font brothers are already on the Board of Directors of the Agrolimen holding company, which operates with well-known brands such as Avecrem and Gallina Blanca (GB Foods). View source Date: 24-08-2021 |
Costafreda; RiveraAndreu Costafreda is the founder of the Panrico Donuts food group. In 1952, the Catalan businessman created Costafreda and Sugarline, a company that produces and markets products for bread-making flour. In 1962 he founded Donut Corporativo Española and in that same year, with the Rivera family, he founded Panificio Rivera Costafreda (Panrico). The first product they made were breadsticks, also called grissini. Alberto Costafreda, Andreu's son, is the current president of the company. View source Date: 24-08-2021 |
DamThe Damm company owes its name to 2 Alsatians who settled in Barcelona, after being exiled after the Francis-Prussian war. Augusto Kuentzmann Damm and his cousin and his teacher Joseph Damm opened a brewery in 1876 at number 27 Viladomat street in Barcelona. Other openings followed, such as the Gambrinus brewery on La Rambla and the La Bohemia brewery on Rosellón street in Barcelona. Finally in 1910 is when the SA Damm is constituted View source Date: 24-08-2021 |
DaurellaThe Daurella family is responsible for the expansion of Coca Cola in our country. Santiago Daurella Full was the one who made the Cobega company the first company to obtain permission to bottle Coca Cola. Sol Daurella (3rd generation of the Daurella family), Santiago's granddaughter, is the current president of Coca Cola Europe Partners and continues the family tradition. View source Date: 24-08-2021 |
Fernandez LopezThe Fernández López family is the founder of the company Pescanova. José Fernández López, a businessman from the meat and natural sector in Sarria (Lugo) was a visionary entrepreneur. We can say that he was the inventor of frozen fish. In addition to fishing in distant fishing grounds and its immediate processing at sea. José Fernández López began in the business world as a cattle dealer and in the 50s he dedicated himself exclusively to meat production in his slaughterhouses. It was in 1960 when he dedicated himself to the fishing business and founded the company Pescanova....
José Fernández López formed a real team with his brothers Manuel, Antonio and Concepción. They were simple people of humble origin. They had an enormous commitment to their land. In the years that the Civil War lasted, they were the main suppliers of meat to the national zone. Its business perspectives were expanded with the creation of Zeltia (1939), Frigolouro (Porriño) and Frigsa (Lugo). Later, Titania, Transfesa and Cementos del Noroeste. They were even the promoters of the Caja de Ahorros de Lugo founded in 1968. They also had a very active participation in the founding of the Editorial Galaxia and also promoted the Museum of Pontevedra. The idea of founding Pescanova came to José Fernández López after thinking about how little the sea and its resources were being used, due to the lack of suitable boats due to not having the possibility of freezing the catches on board. In this way he went from being a man exclusively dedicated to the meat sector to revolutionizing the world of fishing. Pescanova was founded in June 1960 and a year later it had 2 freezer trawlers (Lemos and Andrade). These 2 vessels were sent to the fishing grounds of Argentina and South Africa. In November 1961 the Lemos returned from South American waters with full holds and 2 months later the Andrade did so with 250 tons of frozen hake from South Africa. The experiment was a resounding success. Pescanova acquired at that time a transatlantic called Habana and converted it into a mother ship that would be called Galicia. As of 1964 she was already operating in South African waters. Its production (including fishmeal and fish oil) is transferred to Vigo in other refrigerated transport vessels. More than 500 people came to work in Pescanova's fishing fleet. The beginnings were not easy but only 10 years later, the company was among the 100 largest in Spain and the first fishing company in Europe. Valentín Paz Andrade is incorporated as a shareholder of the company and is subsequently appointed CEO. Pescanova already offered more than 100 different products at this time and had 55 sales delegations. The staff consisted of 2407 people (from captains to sailors) and 1300 more people worked on land. In addition, the Fernández López are the introducers of the Kiwi cultivation in the south of Galicia. The first plantations were located very close to the town of Porriño. Pescanova is currently directed by Manuel Fernández Sousa, son of José Fernández López.
View source Date: 13-12-2021 |
Ferro; FortuneEntrepreneurs José Ignacio Ferrero and José María Ventura, both from the Gracia neighborhood of Barcelona, were the founders of the company Nutrexpa, dedicated to the production of different food products. In chocolates they had brands such as Cola Cao, Nocilla and Phoskitos, among others. In cookies, brands such as Artiach, Cuétara and Phoskitos. In addition to having the Pez candies concession in Spain. Both families maintained control of the company until splitting in 2015. The Ferrero family (Idílica Foods) kept chocolates and cookies and the Ventura family (Adam Foods) other products in the food sector View source Date: 25-08-2021 |
Hernandez CallejasAntonio Hernández Callejas is the president of the Ebro Foods Group, the leading food group in Spain. Hernández Callejas was born in 1955 in Tudela (Navarra), although he moved to Seville at a very young age, where he graduated in Economic Sciences. Throughout his professional career, he has been a member of different boards of directors of rice and food companies. He is a tenacious, austere man who is passionate about his work. He also studied Law for 3 years. He began his business career at Arrocerías Herba, a company belonging to his family that was acquired in 2001 by the Ebro Puleva Group, of which he was appointed Director, Vice President and member of the Executive Committee in 2002....In March 2004 he was appointed Managing Director of the Company and a year later, the General Shareholders' Meeting named him Executive Chairman of Ebro Puleva. After various national and international purchase/sale operations, the Group acquires SOS to focus on the business that the company controls worldwide and is renamed Ebro Foods. Antonio Hernández Callejas is appointed Chairman of Ebro Foods and also a member of the Board of Directors of various Group companies. The Ebro Foods Group has become the leading food company in Spain, the leading rice company in the world and the second largest producer of fresh and dried pasta globally. Some well-known brands such as Brillante, SOS or La Fallera depend on the Group...among others. Ebro Foods has been the protagonist of an important international expansion process. In addition, it has been reorganized to discard and stop making investments in businesses that were not profitable, nor did they allow it to achieve a leadership position at an international level. The company closed 2020 with a historic result, shooting up its sales by 15% and earning 36% more (192 million euros), thanks to the increase in consumption at home in the last months of the pandemic. Ebro Foods is about to acquire the Ronzoni brand, the leading dry pasta brand in the USA. With this operation it is expected that the company will obtain more than 100 million euros in profit. View source Date: 13-12-2021 |
OsborneOsborne is a Spanish family business group dedicated to the production of wines, spirits and pork derivatives. The company was founded by Thomas Osborne Manny in 1772. It is considered one of the 100 oldest active companies in the world (position 94) and the second in Spain. Thomas Osborne arrived in Cádiz at the end of the 2017th century. The company was established as an export agency for Sherry wine. The family business has carried on the tradition over the years. Ignacio Osborne Cologon is the current president of the company, holding his position since XNUMX. View source Date: 24-08-2021 |
PaschalTomás Pascual Sanz, founded the company that bears his name in 1969 (along with his brothers), by taking charge of a bankrupt dairy cooperative located in Aranda de Duero (Burgos). In its beginnings, the company was called Industrias Lácteas Pascual, reaching enough difficulties with the departure of some of its partners. Thanks to the introduction of Tetra brik packaging (a pioneer in Spain) and the ultra-pasteurization process (which allowed milk to be kept longer), the company carved out a niche for itself in the Spanish market....In 1980 the company marketed for the first time at a national level, the first brand of skimmed and semi-skimmed milk. In addition, the group began to diversify its business through other sectors such as the marketing of Bezoya mineral water (1974) or Zumosol (1986). View source Date: 06-09-2021 |
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Summarized alphabetical list of the main surnames in Spain related to the family business, the sector and the province of origin or implantation. Some companies that these families founded are no longer active or have been sold to multinationals.
| Family | Sector | Province |
| Aguirre, Ear | Civil Engineering | MADRID |
| Alvarez | retail trade | MADRID |
| Antolin | vehicle manufacturing | BURGOS |
| Antonio Asensio Pizarro | Publishing | BARCELONA |
| areces | retail trade | MADRID |
| Aresti Ortiz | Paper | BISCAY |
| Aresti, Churruca, Marquina | Trash | BISCAY |
| Aznar | common metals | BISCAY |
| ballve | Food | MADRID |
| Barceló | Accommodation | BALEARICS |
| benzoin; aza; abaurre | Construction, Mineral Extraction | SEVILLE, MADRID |
| Bank | Logistics | BISCAY |
| Bertran | Civil Engineering | BARCELONA |
| Bosch | Clothing and Knitwear | BARCELONA |
| Booty-Sanz | Financial Services | CANTABRIA |
| Booty, Munoz | common metals | CANTABRIA |
| carasso | Food | BARCELONA |
| Carbon; Botet; Elijah | retail trade | BARCELONA |
| carula | Food | BARCELONA |
| Doe, Goizueta | common metals | MADRID |
| Coca | Financial Services | SALAMANCA |
| Comas | Beverages | MADRID |
| Commas and White | Food | MADRID |
| Cordoba, Gomendio | Civil Engineering | MADRID |
| Costafreda; Rivera | Food | BARCELONA |
| Cros | Chemical products | BARCELONA |
| Dam | Food, Drinks | BARCELONA |
| Daurella | Food, Drinks | BARCELONA, MADRID |
| Dexeus | Medical services | BARCELONA |
| Delso; gummies | special construction | MADRID |
| Echevarria | common metals | BISCAY |
| Entrecanales ; Tavora | Civil Engineering | MADRID |
| run away | Accommodation | BALEARICS |
| Wake | retail trade | BARCELONA |
| fabrics | Textile | BARCELONA |
| Fernandez | retail trade | MADRID |
| Fernandez Lopez | Food, Land transport | PONTEVEDRA, MADRID |
| Ferrer; Living room | Beverages | BARCELONA |
| Ferro; Fortune | Food | BARCELONA |
| Iron-Vine | Financial Services | MADRID |
| Figaredo, Garcia, Tartiere | common metals | ASTURIAS |
| fluxá | Accommodation | BALEARICS |
| franc | Games | MADRID |
| Gandarias | common metals | BISCAY |
| Gonzalez Byass | Beverages | CADIZ |
| good | Security | MADRID |
| Heredia, Pidal | Coal | ASTURIAS |
| Hernandez Callejas | Food | MADRID |
| Hidalgo | logistics and travel | BALEARICS |
| lao | Recreational activities | BARCELONA |
| Lara | Publishing | BARCELONA |
| The worst | rubber and plastic | MADRID |
| called | Civil Engineering | MADRID |
| Llucia | retail trade | Teruel |
| Lush | Food | MADRID |
| Mahou | Beverages | MADRID |
| March | Financial services and others | MADRID, BALEARIC ISLANDS |
| March | Minerals | MADRID |
| March (and others) | Water transportation, Financial services | MADRID |
| Matute Benito del Valle | Wood | BISCAY |
| Noguer-Sunol | Chemical products | BARCELONA |
| Ortega | Textile and clothing | CORUNA |
| Osborne | Food, Drinks | SEVILLE, CADIZ |
| Paschal | Food | BURGOS |
| Pidal, Riviere | common metals | ASTURIAS |
| Polanco | Information and communication | MADRID |
| Prieto | energy, gas | BISCAY |
| Puig | Chemical products | BARCELONA |
| quijano | common metals | CANTABRIA |
| Rey | Construction | PONTEVEDRA |
| Banks | Metals, Machinery and Vehicle Manufacturing | BISCAY |
| riboud | Food | BARCELONA |
| Rodrigo | Publishing | BARCELONA |
| Rodríguez | Civil Engineering | MADRID |
| Roig | retail trade | VALENCIA |
| Reeds | Machinery | VALENCIA |
| Rubiralta | rubber and plastic | BARCELONA |
| Ruiz-Mateos | various sectors | MADRID |
| Sanchez; Climbing | retail trade | MADRID |
| Sarrio | Paper, Chemicals | NAVARRE |
| Satrustegui | Coal | BARCELONA |
| Mow | Leather | CASTELLON |
| Sela Figaredo | Chemical products | ASTURIAS |
| shekels | Chemical products | BARCELONA |
| Soriano | Beverages | LLEIDA |
| Torras Hostench | Chemical products | BARCELONA |
| urquijo | Coal, Metals, Financial Services | BISCAY, MADRID |
| Urquijo, Landecho | Aquatic transport | MADRID |
| Urquijo; Figaredo; felgueros | Chemical products | MADRID |
| Valls Taberner | Financial Services | MADRID |
| Velasco | Metal | BISCAY |
| Villar | Pharmaceuticals, Civil Engineering | MADRID |
| ybarra | Financial Services | BISCAY |
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Inheritance planning in the family business
To plan the inheritance of the family business, it is best to consult a trusted lawyer who is a specialist in inheritance and who also has experience in commercial law.
We have asked the Barcelona law firm, Oscáriz Abogados, what factors are the most relevant in this process and they have explained to us that there are three essential points to take into account in the inheritance planning in the family business:
- Define the family roles of all the people involved.
- Define what the business roles of family members are.
- Establish what is the desired succession planning.
Carrying out the generational transfer in a company is something inevitable but it must be approached as a strategic decision of the utmost importance. It must be designed with the necessary anticipation to avoid precipitation.
Monica Oscar It also reminds us that in a succession process it is important to clearly transmit business values, be sure that the heirs have an entrepreneurial spirit and set the company's goals so that there is a commitment to them.
Eleven Spanish family businesses among the 500 largest in the world.
According to the Family Business Index 2023, prepared by the consulting firm Ernst & Young and the University of St. Gallen, there are eleven Spanish family businesses among the 500 largest in the world, among them El Corte Inglés, Mercadona and Inditex are among the 120 best.
According to the report, large family businesses resist crisis situations better and even offer growth rates that double the average for all companies.
It seems that the "effect family business» It has an impact on the stability necessary to achieve a climate of innovation and adaptation to new environmental and cultural realities that allows them to obtain better results and growth than other types of companies.
The continuity in the management and transmission of property between generations of the same family also finds tax advantages in inheritance tax and wealth tax.