Last year the first Company Day celebration was held in Castelló de la Plana. It was only a few days ago that Podemos had branded the businessmen as ruthless and the tension was rising in tone. Then, President Ximo Puig proposed celebrating a Company Day to highlight companies, the “great engine in the shadows,” he said.
This year, with Carlos Mazón as president of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian government has maintained the celebration “out of conviction, support and projection” and has gone one step further: it proposes taking it to educational centers to promote business vocations among young people. , who “will fuel our development and future growth,” explained the president.
The event was held this morning at the Palau de la Generalitat and began with the personal and professional experiences of two entrepreneurs, Paz Navarro, CEO of the Sargantana publishing house and president of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Valencia, and Antonia Pastor, CEO of Cuplé; a gesture in the week before 8-M.
And with a good presence of the Valencian business community: both the Chambers of Commerce and the Valencian Association of Businessmen were present, which just a few days ago reflected its satisfaction with the political management of the Valencian Community in its general assembly; as well as the Valencian employers’ association, the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV).
Its president, Salvador Navarro, has highlighted that “the most important thing about a company is the people who make it up, whether they are managers or workers”, and that thanks to all of them, there are currently 3,207,000 active companies in the country, of which 352,990 have their headquarters in this Community. Likewise, he has urged the business community to have their own speech and tell how much he does, a recommendation that Juan Roig made years ago when he said “businessmen, come out of the closet.”
Thus, Navarro has defended that the company has to tune in with its audiences and provide itself with a business narrative, “tell good stories, because if not others will tell them for us”, and has asked the businessmen and women of this Valencian Community to continue that recommendation, that they feel proud of being entrepreneurs, that they say it and that they tell what they do “because we have good stories to tell,” he assured.
Likewise, Salvador Navarro has asked the Generalitat that the Simplifica Plan “get underway soon” because, in this way, “companies in the Valencian Community will have an easier time and that will translate into greater economic and social progress.” . The plan, as President Carlos Mazón has detailed these days, will be “revolutionary and forever, unprecedented in our country.”
