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They prefer to quadruple loans to their suppliers

April 20, 2026 by usatoday24

Juan Roig has been climbing steps in the list of greatest fortunes in Spain. However, he has been earning exactly the same amount as executive president of Mercadona for three years. Specifically, 12 million gross euros per year. A figure that, on paper, sounds stratospheric, but is more modest than it seems when compared to what they charge. other great businessmen in charge of companies from the likes of Mercadona. What has changed this year are the movements he has made with that money. Because beyond the salary, the Mercadona accounts reveal a striking decision regarding their suppliers. A stable salary, brutal taxation. The 12 million gross euros that Roig received in 2025 are divided into two tranches: 11 million as sole administrator of Inmo-Alameda, your patrimonial company which controls 50.6% of Mercadona, and the remaining million as responsible for the chain itself. Once withholding is applied Personal income tax of 54%, That remuneration remains at 5.5 million net. However, it is not common for a CEO or president to receive this compensation in full as an annual salary and not broken down into different bonuses that could reduce their tax bill. The comparison with other large shareholders and founders is revealing. Marta Ortega, president of Inditex, received one million euros as a salary in 2025, complemented by company shares. Ana Botín, president of Banco Santander, received a salary of 3.43 million euros in 2025, to which are added a short-term variable of 3.09 million and another long-term variable of 1.77 million. In addition, it is complemented with contributions to his pension plan and bonus in the form of shares of the entity he presides over. In total, some 18.5 million euros. If we go to the other side of the Atlantic, Mark Zuckerberg at Meta and Elon Musk at Tesla are assigned a symbolic salary of one dollar and articulate their real compensation through millionaire stock option bonuseswhose taxation is lower than that of an ordinary salary. The key difference between these CEOs and Juan Roig is that Mercadona is not listed on the stock market, which prevents it from resorting to that mechanism: the money comes directly from salary and dividend. More loans must be given: the cost of Store 9. Mercadona is transforming your supermarkets with a new model called Store 9that rearrange the fresco sections and completely redefines how the fishmonger works. Traditional counters they will lose space in favor of tray lines, and the entire section will be centralized in a single point in the establishment. The problem is that this change is not only faced by Mercadona, but its suppliers also need to industrialize their processes to be able to serve the product under the new conditions. And that costs money. That’s where the financing comes in. The loans that Mercadona grants to its suppliers They went from 41 to 171 million euros between 2024 and 2025, quadrupling their volume in a single year. The chain itself has recognized that this increase responds to financial support lent to its suppliers specialized in fish so that they can face the conversion and keep up with Mercadona towards its new supermarket concept. The Roig Arena: 400 million at a time. According to published The EconomistInmo-Alameda’s accounts closed 2025 with a consolidated result of 1,277 million euros, 4% less than the previous year. The main cause is in the decision to account for the 400 million invested in the Roig Arena in a single exercise, which generated a negative result of equivalent magnitude. The logic behind the movement is to take the hit once and for all so that the pavilion can operate from scratch, without carrying the debt of its construction. The venue, inaugurated in September 2025, generated 11 million euros in its first months of activity, and estimates point to an annual economic impact of 150 million thanks to concerts, sporting and cultural events. Outside the Arena, Roig allocated a total of 220 million in 2025 from his net salary and dividends to initiatives such as the business school Navy CompaniesValencia Basket and the Trinidad Alfonso Foundation, within the Legacy Project which has been promoted since 2012 by Juan Roig and Hortensia Herrero. In Xataka | The average salary of Ibex 35 managers has grown by 172% in two decades: the purchasing power of its employees, not so much Image | Mercadona

In Castilla-La Mancha there is an unexpected crop that lives a record campaign and quadruple production: the pistachio

July 11, 2025 by usatoday24

The pistachio is more than a tasty dry fruit. It is also a millmillonary business and in full expansion that, according to The forecasts Data Bridge will exceed 5.8 billion dollars worldwide in less than a decade. In Spain (especially Castilla-La Mancha) Farmers They have noticed of that potential and are dedicating hectares and more hectares of field. Now the Castellanomanchegas cooperatives leave us a clue for how forceful that expansion is being: they expect this campaign to be their production spray records, multiplying by four The results of last exercise. One more test of the Pistachization of the fields. A fact: 8,900 tons. If the forecasts of the sector are met, 2025 will be a good year for the Spanish pistachio. Well no, great. At least if we talk about production. On Wednesday agro-food cooperatives Castilla-La Mancha (an organization that brings together almost 600 organizations of the region) revealed that this campaign expects to reap some 8,900 tons of fruit, which would far exceed the production level of last year and give a new sample of the accelerated rhythm to which They expand The pistachmen for the Castellanoleon field. Does it increase so much? Yeah. According to the agency Agrícola those 8,900 tons would quote the production of last year, which encrypts in just over 2,200. Moreover, community cooperatives already speak of “the greatest registered pistachio harvest to date” in their territory. They also hope that much of the fruits will be “high caliber and quality” and leave ecological farms. The Government of Castilla-La Mancha Calculate That in 2023 the dry pistachio harvest with shell reached 5,580 T in its territory, almost 75% of national production. Even taking that data as a reference, higher than 2024the increase provided by farmers for the current harvest would be remarkable. Why is it important? So it reveals to us about the sector and how it expands in the region. It is not strange that the volume of production dance from one campaign to another, sometimes increasing and in others decreasing. Just a year ago, for example, Castilla-La Mancha cooperatives were waiting for a “prick” in the amount of fruit collected (in November the forecasts pointed to about 4,900 tons of dry pistachio) due to the window character of the trees. Even so that cooperatives foresee that production quadruples this campaign, leaving a result that is promised historical, reveals an increasingly evident trend in Castilla-La Mancha: the growing weight pistachio plantations in the region. Figures on the margin, arrives with a walk through the Province of Toledo To observe how hectares of land that until recently they were dedicated to cereals or grass have been converted into plantations focused on the pistachio. Another figure: 64,400 hectares. The organization has shared Some figures that help to better understand that expansion. According to the spokesman of the Sectorial Commission, Ignacio Lobato, the surface of pistachio planted in Castilla-La Mancha has reached this year the 64,400 hectares. Of these are “in production” 16,400, the vast majority (12,215 ha) in dry land. In fact, the harvest increase this year is explained by the “input into production” of 5,550 ha. “This expansion of the surface in production represents a significant increase of 40% compared to the previous year, which is estimated there were 11,700 ha in production,” insists The professional group. It is not an exclusive phenomenon of the Manchega region. Recently Agroptium published A report That the increase in the surface dedicated to cultivation in Spain as a whole: from 15,000 ha in 2016, it went to 70,000 in 2022 and almost 78,500 in 2023. Earrings of Castilla-La Mancha. The forecasts of Castilla-La Mancha import because the region has managed to make a fundamental foothold in the pistacher sector nationally and internationally, even sneaking Among the main ones Pistacheras del Mundo areas. The data of the autonomous government show that the region brings together around 80% of the total area dedicated to pistachio plantations in the country and that at least 2023 concentrated almost 75% of the production: 5,580 t of dry fruit with a shell of the 7,550 t shelter of the whole of Spain. Images | Jake Belluci (Flickr) In Xataka | Dubai chocolate fever has had an unexpected effect: it has dynamited the world pistachio market

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