Porcelanosa, Maxam and Sercobe: What businesses do they have in Russia?

The Ukrainian president, Volodomir Zelenski, has asked this Tuesday

that Spanish companies stop doing business in Russia, and has cited Porcelanosa, Mazam and Sercobe.

"I want to address companies like Maxam, Porcelanosa and other companies that stop doing business with Russia," Zelensky said.

Porcelanosa is a Spanish business group, specialized in the manufacture and sale of ceramic floor and wall tiles and kitchen furniture, sanitary ware, taps and accessories.

It has a solid international presence through its more than 850 points of sale.

It has a presence in Russia.

Maxam is a mining, civil works, defense

and sports ammunition company with a global presence.

They are present in more than 100 countries and have 140 subsidiaries in some 50 markets.

Sercobe is the National Association of Capital Goods Manufacturers.

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The speech given by Zelenski by telematics has given rise to great confusion at first, since the words of the translator implied that he was saying "Marsans", which became the main tourist group in Spain, but which went bankrupt in 2010 after present insolvency proceedings.

Her co-owner, Gerardo Díaz Ferrán, was convicted of a crime of concealment of assets and money laundering.

companies that have left

In recent weeks ,

, such as Inditex or Mango, in the case of the Spanish, or large multinationals such as Pepsico, Coca-Cola, McDonald's or Starbuck's.

There are other groups, such as Danone and Nestlé, that do maintain their activity and have argued that it is because they manufacture essential products and are committed to feeding the population.

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