Takes over from Antonio Garrigues in the presidency of the Spanish Association of Distributors, Supermarkets and Supermarkets (Asedas)
Change of direction of the Mercadona employers in the midst of a price crisis. The board of directors of the Spanish Association of Distributors, Supermarkets and Supermarkets (Asedas)which has among its associates other large chains such as Dia, Lidl or Ahorramas, has agreed on Thursday the appointment of the former leader of CiU Josep Antoni Duran and Lleida as the organization’s new president. He replaces Antonio Garrigues, who has agreed to assume the honorary presidency.
The Asedas companies, which represent 75% of the food distribution area in Spain, have considered in the first of these appointments the “great career” personal and professional of Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida, who will contribute to the defense of such interests. broad as those represented by the Asedas companies “an experience and vision that will help them to continue serving society based on the values they share, among which stand out dialogue and the search for consensus”.
For its part, Duran i Lleida has assessed the importance of local food distribution represented by the Asedas supermarkets as a sector that creates employment and wealth, essential for the territorial structure of Spain and essential for the daily life of its citizens.
The intense legislative activity that is being developed around the sector at the regional, national and European level -which covers, among others, issues such as the circular economy, consumption or commercial relations- constitutes, likewise, an aspect of interest in which the new president of Asedas hopes “to be able to strengthen the work of the association to the maximum”.
“The figure of Duran i Lleida represents not only the values that have tried to inspire the decisions of Asedas since its foundation, more than twenty years ago, but also its present objectives, when facing important challenges such as the environmental, economic and social sustainability of the model of food distribution in our country, at a time of change conditioned, in addition, by the serious multifactorial crisis that we are experiencing”, they have highlighted from the association.
ANTONIO GARRIGUES ASSUMES THE HONORARY PRESIDENCY
Likewise, Asedas has thanked Antonio Garrigues Walker his “successful” work carried out as president of the organization during the last four years. For this reason, he has agreed to continue accompanying the Asedas companies as honorary president of the organization, after fulfilling a “very important task, at a particularly difficult time, marked among others by the Covid-19 pandemic”.
During this time, according to Asedas, Garrigues Walker has contributed “in a very personal and committed way” to raising the social recognition of the supermarket sector and “making visible” the strategic work of the more than 322,000 employees in the sector.
“We are very grateful to Antonio Garrigues Walker, a key person in the Spanish and international legal world, for his advice, his support and his closeness to the reality of Spanish supermarkets in recent years. This attitude will continue to inspire us from his work as honorary president of Asedas”, has pointed out the general director of Asedas, Ignacio Garcia Magarzo.
In addition, he welcomed Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida as the new president of the organization: “Our businessmen have valued the involvement of Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida with the legislative, economic and social challenges that the sector faces; which, together with the conciliatory and dialogue spirit that has always inspired his career, will be of great help to us in the coming years to continue advancing in a distribution model of proximity at the service of society “.
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