Totana Township pays tribute on Saturday January 28th businessman Antonio Fuentes Mendez with the opening at 13:00 hours in the industrial area "The Saladar" Avenue Antonio Fuentes Mendez at an event in which homage is paid business and appreciates the efforts and commitment to the people totanero this entrepreneur.
Added to this award, approved by the full City Council unanimously by political groups, is holding the record of Honorary Citizen of the Loyal and Noble City Totana Antonio Fuentes Mendez.
Industry Councilman Felix Paul Cayuela, explained that the appointment of this avenue is offered honorary distinction to a person who has demonstrated its commitment to Totana, turning your business into a reference mark nationally.
Moreover, as Apun the mayor, Antonio Fuentes, during its 60 years in business, has proved a daring manager, able to take the risk of a model and a human quality that I endorse as a better person.
Biography
Antonio Fuentes Mendez was born in the Atalaya de Mazarron in February 1932.
At 22 he started as farmer growing tomatoes, so ingrained for decades in the village.
For the development of their crops, initiating treatment with superphosphate of lime that was in his truck from Cartagena, spreading among farmers in the area, laying the foundation for his career in the fertilizer sector.
Expand your search for fertilizer in the area of Andalusia, olive farming was more advanced treatment with nitrate of Chile.
The expansion of its business of distributing fertilizer directly to farmers, leads in 1978 to open the first store in Totana, which has always had its reference in the diversion, near the Boulevard of the pears.
The packaging and distribution structure was built to grow until 1993 that the last store, totaling 14,000 square meters of facilities.
The company, family structure, and under his direction, was the embryo and pattern of Group of Companies which is now the leader in the distribution of fertilizers in the Spanish State, whose base lies in the municipality of Totana and has more than 120 direct jobs.
