At the age of 89, businessman Gregorio Perez Companc, owner of the Molinos Río de la Plata food company and the PeCom energy company, one of the most influential businessmen in the country, died.
In the latest ranking by Forbes magazine, the magnate is the owner of the fourth largest family fortune in Argentina and is in the 782nd ranking of the richest men in the world, with 4.1 billion dollars.
Born on August 23, 1934 in Buenos Aireswas a biological son, according to the book “The owners of Argentina II” by Luis Majul, Benito Bazán and Juana Emiliana Molina, who decided to give him up for adoption when he was 11 years old. In 1946then the French Margarita Companc de Perez Acuña gives him his last name.
Before she died, her mother by adoption made her three natural children swear that He would have the same rights as them.. However, Gregorio ended up leading the family group: his younger half-brother, Jorge Loaquín, died in 1959; The eldest, Carlos, the true creator of the group, died in 1977. And the stepsister, Alicia, died after a thrombosis. None of the three left descendants.
“Goyo” entered the business world with the help of his adoptive brother, Carlos Pérez Companc, when he founded his first company: the shipping company of the same name.
Today called Perez Companc Family Group leads the country not only in the Food and Beverage sector with Molinos Río de la Plata, the largest food company in the country, but is also an important player in Agribusiness, with Molinos Agro, and in Energy with PeCom.
In Molinos, the Perez Companc family concentrates brands such as Granja del Sol, Exquisita, Lucchetti, Matarazzo, Preferido, Vitina, Cocinero, Lira, Blancaflor, Nobleza Gaucha, Favorita, Don Vicente, Don Felipe, Chocoarroz, Nieto Senetiner, RucaMalen, Minerva , Gallo, Terrabusi (pastas), Arlistán and La Salteña.
In 2009, the tycoon left the leadership of his empire and He gave the place to his children. Today, Luis -former rally driver-, Rosario and Pilar lead the business strategy.
How Perez Companc’s children reorganized the group
Almost at the end of last May, the business world was shaken by the news about how the Perez Companc brothers (sons of “Goyo”) restructured the family holding company. In the midst of this news and in the face of the inevitable rumors that this news raises, family members assured that there was no conflict.
Thus, a party headed by Luis Perez Companc and his sisters Rosario and Pilar will manage Molinos Río de la Plata, Molinos Agro and Pecom.
The other with Jorge along with his sisters Cecilia and Catalina will continue with Luis, Rosario and Pilar as until now in Goyaikestrong in agricultural production and containing the Munchi’s and Conuar ice cream parlors, dedicated to the production of fuel for the nuclear power plants that supply the two Atucha and Embalse in Argentina.
Pablo, another of his heirs, retired from that cast and lives with his family in the United States.
In a statement distributed, at the time, to employees, Luis Perez Companc wrote: “With my sisters Rosario and Pilar we redefined ourselves and built a new unit based on the values that have always guided us, we share the passion and vocation of continue investing in Argentina to enhance the growth of our companies, with the value and courage of all of us who make them up.”
Jorge Gregorio “Goyo” Perez Companc started this group that was born on a Patagonian ranch in 1919 and grew from a shipping company in 1946.
