Month: June 2022

Jaume Alsina succeeds Amadeu Jori at the ASCEF’s presidency

 

Barcelona, 17^th of June 2022. – The Assembly of the Catalonian Family Business Association (ASCEF) was held last Thursday 16^th of June, where Jaume Alsina, of Encofrats J. Alsina, took over the presidency succeeding Amadeu Jori, of Jori Armengol & Associats.

 

In his farewell address, Amadeu Jori, mentioned the challenges during the last five years which tested the resilience, entrepreneurship and courage of the Catalonian family business, first with the political tensions derived from the October 2017 events, later with the unexpected advent of the pandemic and finally the war in Ukraine, a soaring inflation, supply chain related shortages, as well as economic and social uncertainty.

He placed emphasis on the Association’s mission to further the ESG culture at the heart of the companies, and thus reminded the triple commitment, commercial, social and environmental, that was subscribed during the last Family Business Conference. We, the family enterprises, he said, are the ones who have to drive this change which will not come from governments or public administrations. A change towards a humanistic capitalism which, leaving behind the School of Chicago postulates, leads us to a more habitable, dignified and prosperous world for future generations.

He also referred the relationships that have been established with Foment del Treball, Pimec, Aijec, FemCat, Cambra de Comerç, Fira de Barcelona and other entities of the business and economic realm to join efforts and take joint actions aimed at improving the Catalonian productive fabric.

He mentioned the ongoing dialog with the Generalitat Government to which they have communicated their clear and plain stance regarding the infrastructure deficit and the need for a regulatory framework improvement to stimulate the growth of companies, as well as the convenience of a tax relief to support competitiveness with other companies from the European Union and other Spanish Communities who are playing with a head start. He also insisted that family enterprises are the driving force for the country’s economy as well as its source of prosperity and progress. He reminded that the Association is made up of 114 leading family enterprises with an aggregated turnover of 33,000 million euros.

 

Finally, with the Board of Director’s consensus, he proposed Jaume Alsina as the new President whose nomination was approved by the Assembly.

Jaume Alsina, have been a Secretary to ASCEF’s Board of Directors and a member of its Executive Committee since 2017. He is a Bachelor in Economic and Business Science from the Pompeu Fabra University, completed a post-bachelor’s in leadership at ESADE and holds a Senior Business Management Degree from IESE. He is currently the CEO of Encofrats J. Alsina.

This agreement values the weight of the family business in the territory’s productive fabric and its main objective is to propel actions and services to further the growth of this sector.

 

Barcelona, June 14^th, 2022.- The Catalonian Association of Family Business (ASCEF, acronym in Spanish) and Barcelona’s Chamber of Commerce held an event last Tuesday to formalize a collaboration agreement aimed at divulging the family business’ role launching it into the Catalonian economic world. In this way, the agreement will promote the development and implementation of projects to further the growth of the productive fabric and will also promote the services developed by the Barcelona’s Chamber for the business sector.

The agreement was subscribed by the President of Barcelona’s Chamber of Commerce, Mònica Roca i Aparici, and ASCEF’s President, Amadeu Jori, whereby they undertake to define initiatives and lines of actions to motivate synergies between both organizations, and to offer mutual support to share the resources and common spaces that could propel the activity and competitiveness of the business family.

The event was also attended by ASCEF’s director, Isabel del Sol, and the Director of Competitive and Institutional Relationships of the Barcelona’s Chamber of Commerce, Xavier Ricart.

In this way, the Barcelona’s Chamber of Commerce provides ASCEF different services, tools, and spaces to develop their communication and promotional operations like its involvement in European projects, education on business, access to the Woman, Business, Enterprise Watch (ODEE, acronym in Spanish), among others. On the other hand, ASCEF is committed to collaborate with the creation of action content in order to drive the activity and competitiveness of the family business, as well as with the promotion of the actions that would be developed in the agreement.

 

 

The Barcelona’s Chamber of Commerce is driving a new economic model:
The Barcelona’s Chamber of Commerce offers transverse services to enterprises contributing to the economic and business development of the whole productive fabric. As a route map, the corporation adopts Project Cataluña 2030/40 with the goal of building a new economic model which help outline a Catalonia that would be more internationally involved, socially responsible, environmentally sustainable and with high added value.

ASCEF, an organization serving the family business:
The Catalonian Association of Family Business (ASCEF), is an organization constituted in 1998 supported by the Family Business Institute (IEF, acronym in Spanish) and made up of over 100 representative enterprises of the Catalonian business grid. The entities that form it have an outstanding role in the country’s economy and are companies dedicated to the creation of wealth, employment, territory and sustainability.