Carlos González-Artigas

Carlos González-Artigas Díaz (1947 - 4 April 2020)[1][2][3] was an Ecuadorian businessman.

Carlos González-Artigas Díaz
Born1947
Quito
Died (aged 72)
Guayaquil
NationalityEcuadorian

Biography

González-Artigas was born in Quito, Ecuador and from a young age, as soon as he left school, he began his professional life in commercial and agro-industrial activities related to cotton planting and processing in the Manabí Province, where he remained in Bahía de Caráquez for several years.[4][5] He received several offers to take over important companies when he was still very young, however he preferred to go his own way in the Oilseed industry.

Later, González-Artigas came to Montecristi, where he founded Grupo Industrial La Fabril, one of the largest industries in the production of oils and cleaning products in Ecuador, which employs approximately two thousand people in Manabí, of which it was its largest shareholder and González-Artigas was their CEO.[4][5] The main lines of its products are oils and fats for human consumption, both for the food industry and for homes, personal care and home products, with brands distributed in more than 20 countries.[6]

González-Artigas was director of Federación Ecuatoriana de Exportadores (Fedexpor).[5] He was the mentor of the Montecristi Golf Club which opened in 2014.[4] He invested in a farm of coffee, cocoa, soursop and other products, and among his latest investments was a small jam and liquor factory.[7]

Death

He died at the age of 72, from a severe pneumonia allegedly caused by COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, during the coronavirus pandemic in Ecuador, on the afternoon of April 4, 2020, at the Kennedy clinic in Guayaquil, where up to that moment more than 2,400 infected people were registered in the city.[2][5][3] His company was passed to his son Carlos González-Artigas Loor.[7]

References
  1. "Empresario quiteño Carlos González Artigas, dueño de La Fabril, falleció en Guayaquil". Vistazo (in Spanish). 4 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  2. "Carlos González, presidente ejecutivo de La Fabril, falleció en clínica de Guayaquil". El Universo (in Spanish). 2020-04-04. Archived from the original on 5 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  3. "Memorias vivas". La barra espaciadora. 5 April 2020. Archived from the original on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  4. S.A, El Diario, Grupo Ediasa (2020-04-04). "Muere Carlos González-Artigas, fundador y presidente de El Grupo Industrial La Fabril". El Diario Ecuador. Archived from the original on 5 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  5. "Carlos González, presidente ejecutivo de La Fabril, falleció en Guayaquil, con sospecha de covid-19". El Comercio. Archived from the original on 5 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  6. S.A, El Diario, Grupo Ediasa (2020-04-05). "La Fabril se pronuncia ante la muerte de su fundador, Carlos González-Artigas". El Diario Ecuador. Archived from the original on 5 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  7. "Adiós a Carlos González-Artigas, dueño de La Fabril". www.expreso.ec. Archived from the original on 5 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
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