Editor’s note: This article was first published in November 2010. This news concerns a meeting on Saturday 27 November 2010, and every position listed dates from then. Many companies have since merged, been renamed or changed leadership, and several of the executives listed have died or retired.
The full list of companies and executives attending Zapatero’s meeting
This Saturday, Spain’s Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, will meet the country’s business elite to ask for their cooperation in helping the country get out of the crisis. Spain’s most important companies and most admired executives will be asked to cut their companies’ profits and invest more outside Spain, in order to generate more resources and more jobs in our country.
With this meeting, Zapatero intends to hear the complaints and proposals of these 30 executives, with the main goal of reviving “Marca España” (Brand Spain), which has taken a beating abroad lately.
For the first time ever, the heads of all of Spain’s largest companies will be together in the same room. Between them, they currently have revenues of almost 2.7 trillion euros and employ more than 1.5 million people.
Here is the complete list of Zapatero’s guests, the people with the most economic clout in the country. On Saturday, Spain will be in the hands of these companies and these executives. Let’s just hope they reach an agreement. We’ve listed them alphabetically so nobody can accuse us of playing favorites.
- ACCIONA: José M. Entrecanales
- ACS-DRAGADOS: Florentino Pérez
- ANFAC: Fco. Javier García Sanz
- BANCO SANTANDER: Emilio Botín
- BANCO POPULAR: Ángel Carlos Ron
- BBVA: Francisco González Rodríguez
- CAJA MADRID: Rodrigo Rato
- CORTE INGLÉS: Isidoro Álvarez
- EBRO FOODS: Antonio Hernández Callejas
- ENDESA: Borja Prado Eulate
- FCC: Baldomero Falcones
- GAMESA: Jorge Calvet
- GAS NATURAL: Salvador Gabarró
- GRIFOLS: Víctor Grifols Roura
- GRUPO FERROVIAL: Rafael del Pino
- GRUPO MONDRAGÓN: José María Aldecoa
- IBERDROLA: José Ignacio Sánchez Galán
- IBERIA: Antonio Vázquez Romero
- INDITEX: Amancio Ortega
- INDRA: F. Javier Monzón de Cáceres
- LA CAIXA: Isidro Fainé
- MAPFRE: J. Manuel Martínez
- MERCADONA: Juan Roig Alfonso
- OHL: Juan Miguel Villar Mir
- REPSOL-YPF: Antonio Brufau Niubó
- SACYR: Luis del Rivero Asensio
- SOL MELIÁ: Sebastián Escarrer
- TELECINCO: Alejandro Echevarría Busquet
- TELEFÓNICA: César Alierta Izuel
Featured image: Presidencia de la Nación Argentina, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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