Natalia Sánchez Romero, Executive Vice President / General Secretary of CEM, took part in the presentation; Reyes Gómez, Head of the Programs and Projects Department at the Andalusian Business Confederation (CEA), and Belén Jurado, Director of the ESESA Business School.
The good figures for the creation of companies in Malaga in recent years can not make us forget that during the past economic crisis there were many companies that disappeared in our territory, although we have now returned to pre-crisis figures.
From the above we can infer that there are many newly created companies in our territory, which also operate in very diverse sectors, and that they face great challenges every day to consolidate and survive.
These companies, many of them SMEs, and also a large number of recent self-employed people, need specific advice adapted to their needs. To contribute to its development and its permanence in the market, Mentoriza emerges.
The main objective of the program is to contribute to the promotion of the entrepreneurial culture and the development of startups throughout the Andalusian territory, specifically, to promote new business projects through the transfer of knowledge and professional experiences between mentors and mentors.
For it, It is aimed at startups and newly created companies that need advice in certain business plots, and that need, to overcome them, personalized support.
On the other hand, this program is also aimed at those entrepreneurs and managers who wish to share their professional management experience as mentors, people with extensive knowledge of certain sectors, who promote the development of business projects with high growth potential in its early stages of life, providing knowledge and added value.
Natalia Sánchez Romero, Executive Vice President / General Secretary of CEM, has highlighted the importance of this project to generate a professional network based on the will and mutual interest of mentors and mentees, which allows not only to create professional links, but to extend them. even in the long term. To date, the initiative has 40 mentors and 32 mentors in Malaga.
In the course of the act has also taken place the presentation "The spirit of initiative and the role of the mentor", by Antonio Guerrero, professional mentor and teacher of ESESA.
The permanent secretary of CEIB and CEOE of International CEOE, Narciso Casado met this weekend with representatives of official institutions and business organizations of El Salvador, in the framework of the roadshow that takes place these days A Colombia, El Salvador and Chile. During his visit Casado also participated in the solemn session of inauguration of the President-elect of the Republic, Nayib Bukele. After the events held in the Salvadoran capital, the permanent secretary of CEIB headed to Chile to participate in the "International Meeting: the participation of the private sector in international cooperation for development", which will also intervene the Ibero-American general secretary, Rebecca Grynspan.
In the meetings held with representatives of the business and official organizations of El Salvador, such as ANEP (the National Association of Private Enterprise) and CONAMYPE (the National Commission for Micro and Small Business), among others, Narciso Casado informed of the future activities organized by CEIB and the Ibero-American General Secretariat, SEGIB, as a follow-up to the mandates emanating from the Ibero-American Summits, including the next meeting of presidents of CEIB-OIE, to be held in Geneva on June 17 and 18 in the framework of the World Meeting of Presidents of the OIE and coinciding with the centennial of the ILO. We analyzed the open innovation forums launched by SEGIB and CEIB, and the next Forum of MIPYMES in Argentina on 2 and 3 July.
It also addressed the support that CEIB is giving to the associative movement of young entrepreneurs in the Region, with the help of FIJE in Ibero-America and its member organizations, such as CEAJE in Spain. Both institutions will participate in the Buenos Aires Forum.
Forum of Mipymes in Buenos Aires
Married exposed the two axes around which will be the Forum of Mipymes the next 2 and 3 of July in Buenos Aires. On the one hand, it will address the digital transformation of MSMEs and, on the other hand, the strengthening of Ibero-American entrepreneurial ecosystems.
The permanent secretary of CEIB said that, despite the advances in the implementation and use of internet in Latin America, the degree of adoption and use of digital technologies in companies is still insufficient, with an important difference with respect to OECD countries. .
"In the region there is a gap of almost half a million professional experts in digital technology with respect to business needs, this gap is even greater for specialists in emerging technologies such as video, cloud, datacenters, virtual reality, big data, cybersecurity or development of software, among others, "said Casado.
The permanent secretary of CEIB explained that SMEs have an added problem in the adoption and use of digital technologies due to their financing difficulties, which require a greater effort than large companies to access new technologies. They tend to show greater problems of productivity, suffering more intensely the competition for talent and lack of qualified human resources. In addition, he pointed out, they have more difficulty accessing continuing education courses due to supply and access problems, which hinders their knowledge regarding the emergence of new technologies.
On the second axis of the forum, Casado recalled that there is a great coincidence among the different institutions and experts of Ibero-America, recognizing that it is a region with many entrepreneurs but with little innovation. He said that much more than entrepreneurial culture and willingness to undertake, especially financing, specific skills, access to markets and internationalization, contacts and regulation are needed.
The business organizations of the Region and the governments of many countries are developing initiatives to strengthen their entrepreneurial ecosystems, providing technical assistance, training, financing and improvements in regulatory frameworks to boost high performance companies, capable of generating quality jobs and putting the agenda of public policy, the programs to support new entrepreneurs, concluded Casado.
Investment possibilities in El Salvador
During the various meetings with business leaders and the government of the country, the CEOE CEOE International explained the collaboration model that CEOE, the Secretary of State for Commerce and ICEX, develop in Spain in terms of internationalization of our companies and the promotion export, and also mentioned the cooperation we have with the Chamber of Spain. Casado highlighted the possibilities that El Salvador offers to foreign investment in sectors such as renewable energy, wind, solar and geothermal, one of the priorities of the new government of El Salvador; the tourism sector; agro-food; textile or the medicine sector. He also talked about other sectors such as environmental, water treatment, telecommunications, infrastructure (improvement of the road network and rural roads) and related to construction, rehabilitation and hospital equipment and management.
After the various meetings, the permanent secretary of CEIB participated in the solemn session of inauguration of the elect president of the Republic of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
During his visit, the general director of CEOE International highlighted the important collaboration that the Secretary of State and ICEX lends to all activities abroad and to the promotion of Spanish companies in all sectors.
Chile
On June 4 and 5, Casado will participate in Santiago de Chile in the "International Meeting: the participation of the private sector in international cooperation for development", in which the Ibero-American General Secretary, Rebeca Grynspan, will also speak. During his visit to Chile, the permanent secretary of CEIB will also hold a meeting with representatives of the Confederation of Production and Commerce (CPC).
The meeting, organized by the Chilean Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AGCID) and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), will be held in two consecutive days of work. Each day will be composed of presentations, dialogues between the public and private sectors and exhibitions of success stories that will be moderated by experts from the sector. The main objective of the Forum is to promote the promotion of alliances and international cooperation networks between the public and private sectors of the Ibero-American area, in order to contribute to the development of the region.
The permanent secretary of CEIB, Narciso Casado, will speak at the meeting to talk about "International public-private partnerships for the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda, Ibero-American vision". The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Carolina Valdivia, will open the day; the Ibero-American General Secretary, Rebeca Grynspan; the executive vice president of the Chilean Production Development Corporation (CORFO), Sebastián Sichel; and the general manager of Acción Empresas, Marcela Bravo.
In an extraordinary meeting of its executive committee, the CEC has agreed to carry out the following recognitions:
Business Group Hervaz. The CEC recognizes the trajectory of this company, founded in 1950 by Manuel Vázquez Fernández, dedicated to agricultural and livestock activities. In 1966, the company acquired the Dehesa de las Yeguas, in the Alcornocales Natural Park, an emblematic operation of the family group. From there, it begins its diversification in different sectors: energy, real estate, industrial (first ice producer in Europe), innovation applied to the agri-food sector, engineering, consulting, medicine, etc. The recognition of the CEC wants to make visible the impetus, effort and generation of wealth by this family business.
Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras. The recognition of entrepreneurs in the province of Cadiz underscores the importance and economic traction of the first port in Spain, that of Algeciras. This infrastructure generates, according to various studies, more than 28,000 jobs -direct, indirect and induced- and 2,010 million euros of Gross Added Value to the Andalusian economy. The CEC extends its recognition to the value chain of this important economic generator and its incalculable strategic value as a point of access to Europe from the South.
Lastly, the CEC recognizes, on an equal footing, the five wine companies in the province of Cádiz that have maintained their management in the hands of the same families since its inception: Barbadillo, Caballero, Delgado Zuleta, González Byass and Osborne. These companies are managed by sixth and seventh generations, and in some cases by the ninth generation of families, which symbolizes and represents the business tradition of the province, the effort to maintain and continue emblematic activities through its brands and products, icons recognized worldwide. The five wineries that, since the beginning of their activity, are in the hands of the same families, highlighting their continuity.
The president of the CEC, Javier Sánchez Rojas, who has already contacted the representatives of these entities and companies to communicate these acknowledgments, has expressed his satisfaction with the decision of the executive committee. "The election of these awards symbolizes, together, the values we want to transmit with our Night: the pride of being an entrepreneur, the initiative, the drive, the perseverance, the tradition, the weight of the Campo de Gibraltar and the importance of cohesion territorial of our province ", has expressed.
Solemn lowered of the Spanish Flag
Sánchez Rojas recalled that the Night of the Company 2019 entails another implicit acknowledgment: that of the Spain navy, when celebrating this business party in the hangars of the Flotilla de Aeronaves of the Naval Base of Rota. "In addition to the important economic weight of our Navy, whose fleet has its general headquarters in Rota, our Night also symbolizes our recognition of the service rendered to our Navy society, in the defense of Spain and our model of freedoms and democracy."
The program of the Night of the Company includes this year, after the end of the ceremony and before the cocktail party, the celebration of the solemn act of lowering of the Flag of Spain, specifically an Insignia that the CEC has delivered to the Navy , replica of the combat flag of the flagship of the Navy, the "King Juan Carlos I".
Sánchez Rojas stressed that the Night of the Company 2019 "will be the biggest event in the province of Cádiz around the world of the company", after the previous editions: 2015 in the historic site of the Matagorda Shipyards in Navantia in Puerto Real, and 2017 in the Real Plaza de Toros of El Puerto de Santa María. Two years ago more than 800 people attended.
The Night of the Company tickets sale is made from the CEC website. Due to the security protocols of the Rota Naval Base, the end of the acquisition period is set for June 15.
The Night of the Company is supported by an important list of companies and institutions. Sponsors: Cepsa, Caja Rural del Sur Foundation, Nunadrola (of the Carrod Group) and la Caixa. Companies and collaborating institutions: Transfrutalla, Consortium of the Free Zone of Cádiz, Airtificial, Tincasur and American Supplies. Media-partners: Diario de Cádiz, Diario de Jerez, Southern Europe, Radio Cádiz-Cadena SER, and the stations of Cádiz and Jerez of the COPE network. Finally, two Cadiz companies as partners: Tickentradas and Sound 5.
The Spanish Federation of Food and Beverage Industries (FIAB) will celebrate one more year the Madrid Food & Drink Summit, an act that will claim food and beverages as part of our culture and traditions under the motto "The art of feeding".
Conducted by the journalist Monica Sanz, FIAB will gather the next June 13th at the Museo del Prado to more than 400 professionals linked to the food and beverage industry and other sectors to discuss the context of transformation under which different productive sectors operate. The Madrid Food & Drink Summit 2019 will be inaugurated by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, and will also have the presence of Acting Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, which will close the act.
In a context in which business models, marketing and internationalization, consumer trends and the environmental and technological implications of production are being transformed, food is also art and culture: the art of our diet, which together with other factors place us as the fourth longest living country in the world and that in 2040 will place Spain as the country with the highest life expectancy; the culture of Spanish foods and beverages that cross borders, and that, as has been reflected in painting and literature for centuries, are part of our life, the pleasure of food, the tradition of celebrating and sharing around a table .
In its seventh edition, FIAB will bring together high-level speakers who will explain the deep process of evolution that their companies have made to give way to new business models. The inaugural address will be borne by Emilio Gayo, President of Telefónica Spain.
Digitization has driven new ways of understanding the market, either in its relationship with consumers, in adapting to new formats or in the creation of new leadership strategies. FIAB will bring the cases of Irene Cano, General Director of Facebook Spain and Portugal, Y Mosiri Cabezas, Chief Data Officer of IKEA.
In addition, we will discuss how the digital strategy has influenced the internationalization of the companies participating in the "Food and Wines from Spain" initiative at the hands of Ryan Frank, Amazon Head of Marketplace, Y María Peña, CEO of ICEX, in a moderate talk by Javier Vello, Partner responsible for Retail and Consumption of EY Spain.
The VII Madrid Food & Drink Summit will also highlight the role of Spanish food and drinks as part of our culture and the tradition of celebrating and sharing. For this, FIAB will review how art and literature have picked up the importance of food and drink in our lives, through the vision of writers Santiago Posteguillo Y Juan Eslava Galán and the General Coordinator of Education of the Prado Museum, Ana Moreno.
In the course of the act, the Federation will deliver its Recognitions 2019 to the European Commissioner for Climate and Energy Action, Miguel Arias Cañete, the journalist Matías Prats and the businessman Javier Robles.
The humorist Santi Rodríguez will close the event, which has the institutional sponsorship of ICEX, MAPA and CESCE, as well as with the collaboration of EY, Engie, Ecoembes, Ecovidrio, Alimentaria, Coca-Cola Y Interalimentary Forum. You can see all the information in this link.
This morning Antonio Garamendi, president of CEOE, met with Gonzalo Sánchez, president of PWC Spain, Robert Moritz, resident of PWC Mundial, Manuel Martín Espada, CEO of PWC, and Iñigo Fernandez de Mesa, president of the Economic and Social Commission. Financial Policy of CEOE, at the headquarters of the Spanish employers.
The permanent secretary of CEIB and general director of CEOE International, Narciso Casado, initiates a travel program (roadshow) to Colombia, El Salvador and Chile, which will end on June 6. During the tour, he will hold meetings with representatives of official institutions and business organizations from different countries, in which he will take advantage of the upcoming Ibero-American Forum of the MIPYME on July 2 and 3 in Buenos Aires and the Ibero-American Summit in 2020. Andorra. In addition, the trip serves as a follow-up to the meetings on open innovation that have been held in recent months, such as the Innovation and Sustainability Forum held yesterday at the headquarters of the Business Confederation.
Colombia
After the celebration of the Argentina Exporta 2019 Forum on May 22 and 23 in the city of Buenos Aires, Casado continues his tour of other Latin American countries, starting with Colombia. The permanent secretary of CEIB will participate in the Spain-Colombia Business Meeting, which will focus on the importance of youth entrepreneurship as the axis of development and instrument of social inclusion and intergenerational cohesion. The event will serve to visualize the experience of social, economic and cultural undertakings of the young people of the Spanish companies attending and will discuss various business issues that can offer a new perspective to entrepreneurs, political leaders and experts participating in the event.
Married will also participate in the presentation of SUMMIT on ODS and 2030 Agenda for Ibero-America, which will be held in December this year at the United Nations headquarters in New York. During his visit to Bogota, Casado will take advantage of the opportunity to meet with authorities of the country and representatives of the CEOE homologous employers' association, the National Association of Businessmen of Colombia (ANDI).
El Salvador and Chile
After the events held in Colombia, the CEOE International director will travel to El Salvador, along with a delegation of representatives of the construction sector, led by the president of CNC (National Confederation of Construction), Juan Lazcano. In San Salvador, on the 31st they will meet with representatives of the CEOE homologous employers' association, the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP); with the president of the National Commission for Micro and Small Enterprises (CONAMYPE); and with the Commercial Attaché in the OFECOME San Salvador. Likewise, the delegation will attend on Saturday, September 1, the solemn session of inauguration of the President-elect of the Republic, Nayib Bukele.
On June 4 and 5, Casado will participate in Santiago de Chile in the "International Meeting: the participation of the private sector in international cooperation for development", in which the Ibero-American General Secretary, Rebeca Grynspan, will also speak. Multilateral cooperation is relevant to the achievement of the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which has economic, social and environmental objectives. Under this premise, both the Chilean Agency for International Development Cooperation (AGCID) and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), organize an international meeting in which state actors and representatives of the private sector will reflect and share good practices of sector involvement. private sector in international cooperation for development, with the aim of promoting alliances and multilateral working networks. During his visit to Chile, the permanent secretary of CEIB will also hold a meeting with representatives of the Confederation of Production and Commerce (CPC).
Mipymes Forum
During the tour, Casado will report on the III Ibero-American Forum on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, to be held in Buenos Aires on July 2 and 3. The Forum is a space for reflection, exchange of good practices and discussion about the reality of the Ibero-American SME, its support policies, the new organizational models and the promotion of strategic alliances between countries. It is a joint initiative of SEGIB, the government of Argentina and the Council of Iberoamerican Businessmen (CEIB).
The third edition will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and will seek to open a space for reflection on the challenges that the productive transformation brings and the inclusion of MSMEs in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the promotion of intraregional trade and the participation of SMEs in global value chains, the opportunities offered by the Ibero-American space as a platform for open innovation and the promotion of partnerships to compete: startups and SMEs together with large companies, as well as an analysis of public support policies and new regulatory frameworks, paying special attention to cases of good practices. From an approach with a gender perspective, emphasis will be placed on the economic empowerment of women and their participation in the business organization.
Ibero-American Summit
Married will also emphasize during the trip the importance of the private sector, which is one of the main axes of the Ibero-American summits and must be strengthened. In fact, it will focus on the next Summit, which will be held in 2020 in Andorra and will have as its theme "innovation for sustainable development". By then, he believes that it is necessary to develop an agenda that makes sense and is consistent with the theme of innovation to achieve results.
Following the same worrying trend of recent months, the increase of 2% in retail sales has benefited chains and supermarkets, but not the small and medium-sized businesses, which have seen their sales decline with respect to the same month of 2018 -0.5%.
This trend has been the norm for more than a year, and we can say that it has already become a chronic problem. The need for local commerce, therefore, to adapt to new consumption habits and to assume the need to digitize them is urgent and urgent.
The Secretary General of the Spanish Confederation of Commerce, José Guerrero, emphasizes that "the organization is working intensely on the awareness of the sector to adapt to the new habits of consumers, as well as to provide tools to meet their digitization needs", although it qualifies that "being a sector so atomized, with thousands of stores, the digitization process of the sector to be able to compete on equal terms with the rest of the commercial formats can only be done with the institutional support of our Administrations"
In this regard, the CEC urges the formation of a new Government at the earliest possible, as well as in the different Communities and municipal corporations: "We know that all parties are aware of the need to support small and medium-sized businesses, and they have transferred this during the electoral campaign. Now is the time to get down to work and to transform the promises into realities that allow local commerce to come out of the free fall in sales in which it has been for more than a year. " Among the most urgent measures, we consider it essential to reopen the debate on the regulation of rebates, and that the instruments that have been put in place to advance in the digitalization of the sector and fight against the intrusive are translated into solutions and concrete supports to our merchants
The sector is immersed in an authentic reconversion, and the only formula to adopt the appropriate measures and achieve the survival of thousands of establishments is the declaration of the trade as strategic sector of the economy, which would facilitate greater budgetary support to facilitate the digitalization and competitiveness of SMEs in commerce.
Finally, the Secretary General of the Confederation has wanted to condemn the threatening tone of the letters sent by the Treasury to thousands of freelancers of commerce, since in the case of small commerce, "the low turnover to which they refer is the consequence of the very complicated situation that traders who struggle to carry out their businesses go through", and that the last thing they need , he adds, "is a sword of Damocles more on their heads".
The businesswomen and directors of León already have a new group that represents them: Association of Women Entrepreneurs and Leonese Directors (ASELE), integrated in the Leonese Federation of Businessmen (Fele). This was announced this morning at the official presentation of the association by Luisa Amoedo, president of ASELE and Lola Rebollo, vice president. During the presentation they were accompanied by the president of Fele, Javier Cepedano.
The association was born with a very clear purpose: represent the group of businesswomen, directives and autonomous women; and promote their empowerment through the pursuit of professional equality, salary and family co-responsibility. In short, normalize the presence of women in the business and economic sphere of society, in all sectors and levels of responsibility, give visibility and transmit it in different social forums.
In addition, and as explained by the president of ASELE, Luisa Amoedo, this initiative will provide women entrepreneurs and directors of the province with the "visibility, strength and representativeness required by local, regional and national institutions." For example, to articulate the business position on equal opportunities in the field of collective bargaining and social dialogue, and to transfer to the Governing Bodies of the CEOE.
Amoedo has also stressed that one of the values on which the organization is built is the desire for integration and not for exclusion, and that the objective is to form an association in which to integrate everyone, to "attract talent without gender". " In this sense, ASELE encourages men and women to participate who share the values of equality in the workplace.
The collective, led by Luisa Amoedo (Chemist and plant manager of mAbxience in León) and Lola Rebollo (engineer, entrepreneur and independent consultant) is also made up of women and directors of the province with extensive experience in various economic sectors.
Atlantic Axis of Businesswomen and Directors
With the birth of ASELE, the businesswomen and directors of León also enter to be part of the Atlantic axis, a collective that groups associations of businesswomen from Galicia, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Asturias, Navarra and León. This Hub represents women entrepreneurs from the northwest of the peninsula in order to speed up their incorporation to the boards of companies, encourage women to create and run their own societies and empower them.
For this reason, one of the first actions of the newly constituted association is to represent León Este Saturday 1 June in 'The first day of the Atlantic Axis', an initiative promoted by FEDA (Federation of entrepreneurs and directors of Asturias) with the aim of gathering the knowledge, entrepreneurship and talent of the women of the Hub, making it available to society through the activities developed in the coming years and thus contribute to generating wealth in their territories.
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