Dimas Alvarez Gimeno, new strong man of the English Court.
/ Kike To (COUNTRY)
The board of directors of the English Court will meet Tuesday at five in the afternoon to appoint a new president after the death of Isidoro Álvarez Sunday in Madrid. It is expected that the highest management body of the company’s department stores, consisting of eight people at the moment, decides to grant command responsibility Dimas Gimeno Alvarez, nephew Isidoro Alvarez, 39, who represents the fourth generation to against the empire initiated by the Spaniard Cesar Rodriguez in Havana (Cuba) and grew in 1995 with the absorption of Atlantico Department, also from the same seed and Indian for years with more weight than the English Court.
has also considered the possibility that, even temporarily, without a central role in the presidency of Manuel Pizarro entity that was signed by Álvarez this summer as a consultant advisor to financial issues. The sources claim that it is presumed that the former deputy president of Endesa and the PP continue the same advisory role with Gimeno, whose main workhorse focuses precisely on the debt of nearly 5,000 million carried by the group and keep employment in more than 93,000 people have today, the main obsession of his uncle in the crisis.
Among the board members include veterans Florencio Lasaga, Juan Carlos Martínez Echevarría and Beautiful, which have accompanied Alvarez frontline since this took office 25 years after the death of his uncle Ramón Areces. Also are Paloma Garcia, Carlota Areces, Leopoldo del Nogal and said Gimeno and Pizarro.
Born in Madrid in 1975, Dimas Gimeno Alvarez is a graduate in law from the Universidad San Pablo CEU and a Master of Laws private by this university and an MBA from IESE. He began his career as a salesman in El Corte Ingles, which he combined with his studies. It was incorporated in 2000 to central El Corte Ingles in Madrid, where he worked in different areas. In 2001 he moved to Portugal to assist in the implementation of the subsidiary company in the country and the first center El Corte Inglés in Lisbon, and during the next five years participated in the development of new centers.
In 2006 the center of El Corte Inglés opened in Oporto, whose address Gimeno was commissioned. Two years later he returned to the Central Services of the company in Madrid and later joined the sales management. In 2009, he was appointed to the Board of the Ramón Areces Foundation, and in 2010, appointed director of the English Court, a position he held until his appointment as executive director for the company.
While the council was preparing , Monday sacrament of San Ginés received, in the family vault, the remains of Isidoro Álvarez. In the same temple of Madrid Calle del Arenal in Madrid, near the Puerta del Sol, was buried on July 31, 1989 his uncle and predecessor, Ramon Areces.
The death of Alvarez has been deeply felt in the business and political environment of the country. As was his wish, centers El Corte Inglés have a normal, open day, although with the flag at half mast, while the chapel have passed the authorities to which he was chairman of the department stores during the past 25 years.
Among them, the Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, who also represented the Government at the bachelor Emilio Botin, chairman of Banco Santander, last Saturday in the Cantabrian capital, said it was a person and a businessman who “got to El Corte Ingles in the lives of all Spaniards”. Speaking to the media gathered at the exit of the chapel, for which he also passed, in addition to the Infanta Elena, family, friends and personalities from politics, economy and culture, Guindos stressed that the president of El Corte Inglés is “an ongoing reference for all.”
Your partner Cabinet Minister for Employment, Fatima Banez, emphasized the “tremendous work and great personality” Alvarez, while stressing the fact that the group is the first employer in Spain and a benchmark for all entrepreneurs. “It was a simple person close and always willing to help society. Always opted for modernizing its business, based on talent and the focus on human capital and innovation,” he said.
The president of Castilla-La Mancha, María Dolores de Cospedal, commended the work done by the president of the English Court and his career. “All Spaniards will have to be very grateful. Como Spanish, my thanks for raising the flag of our country in a sector such as trade in a very bright and very dignified manner,” he outlined.
also attended the funeral chapel President of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Gonzalez; Industry Minister Jose Manuel Soria; the mayor of Valencia, Rita Barberá, the president of Endesa, Borja Prado; the former Minister of Economy Carlos Solchaga socialist and former judge of Baltasar Garzon, who lamented the “irreparable loss PEROSNAS excellent” president of the English Court.
The Secretary of State for Trade, Jaime García-Legaz, the English Court emphasized that “this crisis has passed flawlessly and quietly, which is a great achievement” considering how consumption has fallen.
César Alierta Telefónica and president of the Business Council for Competitiveness part Alvarez highlighted the personality and work of Alvarez, whose work is “unique”. “What has he done for the whole family, for all workers of El Corte Inglés and Spain is unique. Has been a partner and a model,” he added. Similar praise received from Ignacio Sanchez Galan, chairman of Iberdrola; Pablo Isla, Inditex; Juan Roig, Mercadona, and representatives of the trade and distribution sector.
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