Sewer Mayor, Joaquín Buendía, accompanied by several members of the government team, visited the facilities of the company Hero Spain, located in our town since 1922, being for his career history and professional and social responsibility, leading the food market, major figures in baby food products, being received by Mr. Sergio Elizalde, Director General and Ms. Southern Europe. Encarna Guirao, Director of Human Resources, Institutional Relations and Social Responsibility of the company.
The Mayor, in his first visit to this great toshers company, knowing the work developed with the development of its products, not just for Spain but for the rest of the world, with a strong track record, marked from its beginnings in the more than ninety years of history and now with over 800 employees on its payroll.
For the Mayor of Sewell, Joaquín Buendía, on his first official visit, he recognized "the importance Hero has for our town, much to the clarifying statement that made us the Director General and the Director of Human Resources, where we found what we already knew, even checking it now, since we know the importance of Hero in Spain, with its elaborate in our town not only for the country products, but for the rest of the world, having always Sewer and reference . We have known adaptation and involvement that it has with the new technologies. Hero Spain has gone from being a company preserves and traditional food to be a company of advanced nutrition. The strength of his career shows that Hero Spain has adapted to changes and market requirements. Proof of this is the diversity of awards already have. "
Elizalde, Hero Spain said that "the mission as a company is to delight consumers while preserving the good of nature, and the strategy that has defined and makes Hero Spain, a company committed to society, involved in quality and safety in all production processes, and with the primary aim of offering people healthy products and one hundred percent natural. "
They also stating that "today it is a modern, contemporary and international expansion and future success and today has integrated social responsibility in the value chain and sustainability criteria in all processes company. This year they are anniversary, as it met the 30 years of one of the major milestones of the Group, as Hero in 1985, creates, produces and markets a new range of products for children and commemorating the birth of the range of Food and Child Nutrition for the first time in Spain is sold in supermarkets. "
Encarna Guirao did a whole tour of the policies of Social Responsibility that the company is already doing for many years, "Social Responsibility is the balanced response of Hero Spain to all aspects of management, pivoted about three axes Human Resources, Sustainability and Community-, Hero develops its strategy on the conviction that this contributes to the betterment of society, to their own development and that of all its stakeholders. This responsible value is printed on the DNA of the company and permeates the daily work of all who are part of it. The collaboration with the Food Banks not in these years are the general crisis, but for quite a lot, even when our region was not yet created, transfer them to other outside of herself, environmental measures to reduce emissions, recycling of water, energy optimization and promotion of voluntary activities with staff, has earned us the recognition of consumers, including us among the most recognized companies in social responsibility ".
Afterwards a tour was conducted by the manufacturing plants, both those of development, as in storage, explaining the whole production and logistics process of the company.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla