Carlos Pellas Chamorro
Carlos Pellas Chamorro ( born January 10, 1953 in Granada, Nicaragua) is head of the Nicaraguan family company Grupo Pellas.
Pellas Chamorro
1875 was the great-grandfather of Carlos Pellas Chamorro, Alfredo Pellas, a trader from Genoa, with 400,000 United States dollars ( USD) to Nicaragua. 1890 acquired Alfredo Pellas the Finca San Antonio in Chichigalpa. Modernized in 1916, his son, the grandfather Silvio F. Pellas, the sugar factory and bought a new mill of brand FULTON.
1952, involved the mother's brother, Carlos Pellas Benard, at the founding of the Banco de America ( BANAMER skyscraper ), whose owners were conservatives from Granada and La Paz de Carazo Carazo in. 1952 married parents, Alfredo Pellas and Carmen ( Nena ) Chamorro Benard, in Granada. The Grupo Pellas developed as a sugar-processing industry, such as Flor de Caña under the Somoza clan, the power of the Sandinistas in 1979, the dynamic development of the company.
Life
The siblings of Carlos Pellas are Lucía ( Adelita ), Alfredo and Federico Silvio. Carlos Pellas studied business administration at Stanford University and has an MA in Economics and an MA in agriculture. 1976 married Vivian Fernández García ( * March 5, 1954 Havana ) and Carlos Pellas Chamorro. They have three children. 1987 the couple moved to Florida about Pellas. 1988 seized the government's sugar plantation Ingenio San Antonio in Chichigalpa, which is 20,000 ha an essential part of Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited. Ingenio San Antonio was in the middle of 1960, the most prolific producer of raw sugar in Central America. The reasons for the seizure were declining production and neglect of the facility. The Sandinista government offered compensation, but no agreement on annual payments was found.
Grupo Pellas
Carlos Pellas Chamorro in 1980 took over the management of Grupo Pellas, a conglomerate of 50 companies with a turnover of USD four billion per year and about 15,000 employees. The group includes:
- Education, communication: training, Telefónica de Centro América ( TELCA ) Estaciones Terrenas de Satélites ESTESA, 40 % share of the Nicaraguan leader in cable television Direc TV
- Data processing: 40% stake in Gulf Business Machines, which has been trading as General Business Machines in the region.
- Financial services: Banco de América Central, BAC International Bank, CREDO MATIC. The most recent business was the sale of 49.99 percent of the shares of BAC International Bank to General Electric for about $ half a billion. Pellas announced to want to buy with the money banks in Guatemala, and asked for a to open in Mexico.
- Food: Compañía Cervecera (Victoria and Toña ), orange plantation on the border with Costa Rica, which, with 7,000 ha of the most extensive in the world, as well as near a orange squeezer.
- Commercial vehicle: Casa Pellas distributor for Toyota in Nicaragua, vehicle insurance,
- Sugar Industry: Flor de Caña Licores producer of sugar and energy: Nicaragua Sugar Estates: Ingenio San Antonio 2006 were fermented 85,000 quintals of sugar for export to fuel ethanol.
The companies of Grupo Pellas form the most important and most differentiated corporate conglomerate in Central America. Carlos Pellas Chamorro received in May 2005, the Premio de empresario Distinguido, which was awarded by the Cámara de Comercio e Industrias de América Latina ( Camacol ).
Casa Pellas
The dealership Casa Pellas was on March 12, 1913 by Carlos Pellas Francisco Vivas as F. Alf. Pellas & Cia. Founded in Granada. The first branch was opened in Avenida Central in Managua in 1922. It imported goods were sold: liqueurs, Firestone tires, pianos, boots. After the death of Carlos Pellas Francisco Vivas his brother Silvio Pellas Federico Vivas (1927-1953) took over the management of the company. From Julio Chamorro Benard († 1973), the company's management went to his son Julio Chamorro Coronel († March 1982) (he had four sisters and one of his six brothers was Edgar Chamorro ) as these died in 1982 took over Silvio Pellas Chamorro Federico management of the company
Hospital Metropolitano Vivian Pellas
On 21 October 1989, the couple survived a plane crash in Tegucigalpa, in which 149 people died and nine survived. Mrs. Pellas survived with 40 % skin burn and 62 broken bones, but now she leads a dance studio again. Since then, she is involved in the field of combustion and trauma surgery in Nicaragua. According to Vivian Pellas a private hospital at kilometer 10 of the Carretera Managua was - named Masaya, which is reputed to be the youngest and most modern hospital in Nicaragua.
Honorary Consul for Italy
On 30 July 2008 the Italian ambassador in Nicaragua, Alberto Boniver, Carlos Pellas Chamorro decorated with the Order of Stella della Solidarietà Italiana. In October 2008, Carlos Pellas Chamorro was accredited as Honorary Consul for Italy in Granada ( Nicaragua). On this occasion it was pointed out that Grupo Pellas on the Nicaragua Sugar Estate Ltd.. the sugar refinery Ingenio San Antonio belonged. In the fields of sugar factory thoughtlessly and solid pesticides were used. This use affects the health of employees, the groundwater and the environment. The Asociación de afectados por Nicaragüense insuficiência Renal Crónica ( ANAIRC ) pointed out that in the Sugar Factory Ingenio San Antonio employees suffering from chronic renal failure, of whom 2,986 died. They argue for years to compensation for occupational disease according to the law 456 Ley de Adicción de Riesgos y Enfermedades Profesionales From 6 June 2004., And want by the Instituto de Seguridad Social Nicaragüense ( INSS ) at more than 4,500 people are paid pensions.