Demetrio Carceller Coll, one of the great promoters of the Damm brewery, dies

2023-09-30 17:16:54

Businessman Demetrio Carceller Coll, one of the great promoters of the Damm brewery, died last Friday at his home in Galapagar, in Madrid, at 93 years old. He was the son of Demetrio Carceller Segura, Minister of Industry (1940-1945) and promoter of Campsa and co-founder of Cepsa and DISA.

Carceller Coll pushed the Grupo DISA, the first Canarian company for the distribution of energy products and the first independent operator of service stations nationwide under the Shell banner. He was the first shareholder of the Damm brewery, with sector leadership throughout the Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands. He was also president of the Transatlantic Commercial Bank, known as Bancotrans and which Carceller Coll positioned as a business bank, serving the Catalan economy of the time.

Always a banker

He always considered himself a banker, it was his main activity to which he was linked from 1965 until the sale of Bancotrans in 1989 to Deutsche Bank. He was a director of various companies, including Sevillana de Electricidad, where he highlighted his refusal to support the sale of the electricity company to Endesa Group. He lived between Spain and Portugal for most of his life where he developed real estate, agricultural and livestock businesses. In the international arena he created a network of shopping centers in the United States.

Married over 66 years with María del Carmen Arce, who died just 12 days earlier, he was the father of five children, some of whom continue the family business saga. Led by Demetrio Carceller Arce, They have continued to develop and consolidate family businesses. Carceller Arce is president of DISA, Damm and vice president of Ebro Foods and Sacyr.