Miguel Facussé Barjum

Miguel Facussé Barjum ( born August 14, 1924 in Tegucigalpa ) is a Honduran palm oil business.

Miguel Facussé Barjum is a brother of Margarita Facussé Barjum, mother of Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé. He is married to Vera Saenz de Facussé (* Costa Rica); they have five children.

Facussé studied at the Universidad de Notre Dame de South Bend, Indiana. 1954 granted him the Inter-American Development Bank a loan of 0.375 million U.S. dollars.

In 1960 he founded the Corporación Dinant, in which it holds the majority of shares today. In 1974, he ran the soap maker Químicas Dinant, which became dominant in the context of funding for the import substitution policy and state aid through the Corporación Nacional de Inversiones ( CONADI ). End of the 1970s he was a member of the Asociación para el Progreso de Honduras ( APROH ), an association of entrepreneurs and military. He was president of brand company Cressida, which he sold to Unilever in 2003. Its retail company for consumer goods and fried in palm oil supplements have branches in Central America, Panama and Mexico. His company assemble more than 350 different items.

With 17,000 acres valued at 34 million dollars and about 7,000 employees, it is the owner of the most extensive oil palm plantations in Central America. He pursued an aggressive business strategy and plans a further 20,000 hectares for 200 million U.S. dollars, be planted with oil palms. Critics accused him to reward cooperation and to pacify opposition with murder. The income from the oil palm corresponded in 2005 about 10 percent of the gross domestic product of Honduras.

Business

  • Chemical industry: Químicas Magna, Químicas Láser
  • Banking: Cressida Industrial, Grupo Dinant, formerly Corporación Cressida whose board he was.
  • Beverages and foods: Alimentos Dixie, Frutas y vegetales Altima
  • Export: Exportadora del Atlántico
  • Agrofuels: Dinapower
  • Retail: Xedex, Audaz and Ganex.

Criticism

In Tocoa in the department of Colón of mayoral candidate Carlos Alfonso Mejía Escaleras criticized a proposed Facussé of plantation of oil palms, his three million Lempiras were offered. As he criticized, he was shot. Judge Ana Pineda presented in November 2000 issued an arrest warrant for this homicide against Facussé, what are you, the case was withdrawn.

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