Women's business night at the Liceu in Barcelona

• Opinion Award for best businesswomen in Catalonia

A gala stage such as the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona has witnessed this Tuesday the recognition of four businesswomen by

and

.

(Sorigué),

(Colonial),

(Red Points) and

(Active Africa) have collected their respective awards for the best businesswomen in Catalonia at the emblematic La Rambla Coliseum, jointly awarded by the two titles Editorial Unit sponsored by CaixaBank.

"We are a society that does not recognize the efforts of others and that is a scourge for all generations", the director of El MUNDO,

, expressed in his opening speech, claiming the need that, among the tangle of "the bad news of recent times", the media value the economic and social work of protagonists such as the four winners, whom he has defined as "a poker of extraordinary and first level women".

In her turn to speak, the director of

,

, highlighted that "these awards are not about paying more attention to women entrepreneurs and managers than to men, but instead try to pay attention to women entrepreneurs and managers they deserve, as determining actors of a great social transformation".

The four winners have prevailed among a long list of candidates valued by the jury of the awards of the two publishers of Editorial Unit, formed by

, independent director of CaixaBank;

, president of the CEOE;

, president of Barcelona Global;

, Egon Zehnder's

in Spain, and

, founder and CEO of Spain Startup and South Summit.

The awards

Ana Vallés, president of Sorigué since 2011, when she took over from her uncle

, received the

, an award that recognizes her work at the head of the group specializing in construction and urban services, which in the last decade it has gone from having a workforce of 1,894 employees to 4,800 and whose sales in 2021, pending the end of the year, are around 650 million euros.

Vallés has said that the trajectory to which she alludes her award evokes a long road in which she has had the help of many people, "a legacy" that she wants to "care for and share".

Carmina Ganyet has received the

Award .

The corporate general director of Colonial, who faced the difficult process of rebuilding the real estate company after the financial crisis that broke out in 2008, has launched a plea of ​​optimism: "I am convinced that together we will leave a better and easier world to Our daughters".

Laura Urquizu, CEO and founder of Red Points, has won the award for

.

Growth at cruising speed has made this startup one of the Spanish technology companies with the greatest potential.

Its solutions in the field of brand protection against piracy, counterfeiting and price manipulation have enabled it to achieve that 60% of its current turnover comes from the United States.

"The good businesswoman is the one who benefits her team and society", she expressed in her speech.

Carme Masferrer, founder of the NGO Active Africa, has collected the Award for the

for her educational and health projects in the poorest populations of Malawi and Kenya.

The winner has vindicated her love for "this continent so close but sometimes so forgotten".

The event led by

, deputy director of EL MUNDO, was attended by the Business Director of the Editorial Unit,

, and the Group's General Director of Advertising,

.

Several representatives of the Catalan economic and political society have also attended, such as the president of the Círculo de Economía,

;

his predecessor in office,

;

the Councilor for Commerce of the Barcelona City Council,

, or

, General Director of Innovation of the Generalitat.

The new delegate of the Government in Catalonia,

, has closed this recognition to four leading women in an area traditionally taken over by men with a parliament that has begun with a famous quote by

: "Feminism is a way of living individually and to fight collectively".

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