For the moment there has not yet was defects700 education nationale and 4400 to the defenceOn the week this is almost the status quoA distribution of tasks dictated by the operating costs The low cost pressure reinforces the need to adaptON extend their influence on the continentThese seats can suddenly find a defensive appeal for lower prices Today many things are in the warehousesThey thought the future program of the candidateI have not been elected to increase taxesTradition and innovation. Conformism and diversity. Discretion and openness to the world. The image of its founder, it is difficult to identify the Group Villar Mir, a Spanish conglomerate which displays a sales total EUR 6 billion with 26,000 employees, present in 43 countries of the world. It is the prototype of the Spanish family company, with its faults and qualities.
Juan Miguel Villar Mir is a contractor to the former, a "success story" as we like them in the Iberian Peninsula. Companion of class of King Juan Carlos during his adolescence, human first performs a career as a senior official, made a short-lived but noticed passage to the Ministry of economy and Finance of the first Government formed on the death of Franco before to profess in several schools including the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Original, he expected the age of fifty-six, when others prepare their retirement, to discover a fiber of contractor!
In 1987, Juan Miguel Villar Mir starts her shopping. Over the years, falling twenty one companies, generally in difficulty, acquired for the symbolic peseta in anyway and it attaches to restructure. Today, the group is present in the construction industry with OHL 40 of the capital is in stock, in real estate with Inmobiliario Espacio, whose principal assets is one of the four great towers of the Spanish capital, but also the fertilizers and the électro-métallurgie. Only allowed to talk about the strategy of the Villar Mir group "since it is the majority shareholder", according to his communications officer, the man, who did not respond to requests of maintenance of the "voices", was a business philosophy based on austerity, self-financing, research and development and internationalization.
Agreements with universities
In March, at a forum of the new economy, sponsored by OHL, it boasted as to be ever attributed to dividends for the non-listed part of its group, affecting only a salary of 750,000 euros.
"We are in mature sectors, subject to strong competition," highlighted, with emphasis on the need for innovation which arose and that its business had always developed their own technology. In the matter, the Group has signed agreements with seventy-five universities and public research centres. The man is not just proud to say also that more than half of the workforce and a majority of its investments are out of Spain.
Only OHL is under pressure from credit agencies, worried by the debt of the company (EUR 3.5 billion), many observers are speculating on the estate of Juan Miguel Villar Mir. Aged seventy-eight, the person concerned provides have everything prepared. His son Juan Miguel Villar de Fuentes, the current Vice-President of the group, is already designated to take the reins. Others suggest a possible partition in three of the family business with Bruno, the son, and Javier Lopez Madrid, the son-in-law, a friend of the prince Felipe, the heir to the throne. For the moment, the President of Grupo Villar Mir seems not ready to set off. It is part of the godfathers of Madrid for the Organization of the Olympic Games of 2016...
