Roig: The «politico-autonomic mess» makes us more «frightened»

Roig: The «politico-autonomic mess» makes us more «frightened»

The president of Mercadona urges entrepreneurs to "face up" and "come out of the closet" to improve the image you have of them

   In the survey carried out among entrepreneurs at the XXI National Congress of Family Business that took place this Monday in Valencia, the more than 600 attendees have been asked about their satisfaction of being so, an option that received a score of 8.19. 9. About that 'Pride of being an entrepreneur' has been the talk of Juan Roig, president of Mercadona, who asked the professionals of the sector to "come out of the closet." "Entrepreneurs do not have a good image because we do not go to face, and that we are the ones who create wealth in this country," lamented the president of the leading company in the supermarket sector, with more than 22,000 million euros Billing in 2017, which has also advanced that this year will increase "by 5% or 6%."

  Roig explained that a country is richer if it has more businessmen: "Catalonia is a richer region than Andalusia because its ecosystem favors more business." And he went on talking about Catalonia to ensure that this year the Spanish economy is "the same" as the past, but the worst perception is due to the "politico-autonomic mess", which makes us "more frightened".

At the beginning of his speech, Juan Roig spoke of "businessmen and businesswomen", laughingly claiming that they had corrected him, otherwise they "put you in jail". Further on, he began the presentation by saying: «Companies and 'business' have a mission».

In addition, it has defined entrepreneurs as those "who go against the grain" and believe "in equal opportunities". Thus, the president of Mercadona recalled that the so-called now 'entrepreneurs' are those who then become entrepreneurs to do something "that others have not seen, but then you copy."