Imanol shared space with representatives of Única, CASI and Vicasol, under the title ‘Strategies for a Model with a Future’ and presented the guidelines for the company’s growth and its vision for the future of the agricultural sector.
The CEO of Grupo Agroponiente, Imanol Almudí, has taken part in one of the main round tables of the XVIII Jornadas de Agricultura organised by Grupo Cajamar, Ayuntamiento de El Ejido, Servicios Hídricos Agricultura y Ciudad, Cadena Ser and its programme SER Agricultor and the newspaper La Voz de Almería in the Teatro Municipal de El Ejido.
Almudí took part in the round table discussion entitled ‘Strategies for a Model with a Future’, together with the president of Única Group, José Martínez Portero; the manager of CASI, Juan Jesús Lara; and that of Vicasol, José Manuel Fernández Archilla, moderated by the journalist from Cadena SER and La Voz de Almería, Jacinto Castillo.
Almudí has shown at all times a vision based on the importance of increasing the size of companies and/or groupings of companies to compete efficiently in an increasingly globalised European market, and conditioned by the asphyxiating legislative obstacles that currently exist in Europe, the structural changes caused by Brexit and the war in Ukraine, as well as the increasing competitive demands caused by the entry into the European market of products produced in North Africa.
The CEO of the Agroponiente Group emphasised that ‘commercial margins are narrowing and this forces us to increase the efficiency of the companies in all senses. The sector needs strong companies. The productive fabric needs it too, because the farmers themselves are demanding to come together in large companies to defend their interests and, above all, their produce in the global market. However, on the other side of the chain, the large chains also need large suppliers to ensure that they faithfully comply with taxonomy, raw material assurance and their quality requirements’.
Imanol Almudí also gave an overview of what is expected to happen in the next few years and expressed his conviction that companies from Almeria must go beyond Almeria and aspire to be a global operator for the European market. This will not detract from our Almeria identity. We have to be companies from Almeria, but capable of transcending our borders and ensuring the service our clients need, because if we don’t, others will come along and take our place in the market’.
Almudí also encouraged the search for a single voice for Almeria companies, regardless of whether they are cooperatives or privately owned companies, as is the case of Agroponiente, in order to have more influence on what affects the sector.
The Agroponiente Group would like to thank Cadena Ser and La Voz de Almeria for the invitation and the opportunity to share a table with other important representatives from the production and sales sector at source, in a meeting which, as Almudí affirms, ‘must take place with a certain frequency, because it is essential that we see each other, talk to each other, listen to each other and even that these meetings serve as a starting point to carry out joint strategies’.
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