‘Total liquidation. Last days until June 21. Everything at 25 euros’. Anyone who walks along the corner of San Antón and Pérez Galdós streets in Logroño will come across that sign. It is the one that shows off the shop window that there … It has been in place for just over five years. The Molgoy store closes its doors, but his farewell goes much further, since the factory, located in Navarrete, also closes, as well as the other business that the firm had in Vitoria. In fact, the establishment of the capital of Álava already closed the shutters forever on May 31.
“Everything is closed.” This is how Rosa Molina summarizes the decision made by the owners of this business specialized in knitwear and shirts. The finishing touch is put on an adventure that began with the help of his grandparents back in 1954 with the launch of Manufacturas Molina SL, whose trademark ‘Molgoy’ arose from the surnames of its founders: the aforementioned Molina and Goicoechea.
“There are clients who have told me that they already have ‘Molgoys’ for the rest of their lives,” Rosa Molina congratulates.
This is how a company with a Rioja seal was launched, which was continued by the children of the founders, Rafael and Juan María, to later make way for the third generation of the family. “My sister Mónica joined in 2004 to run the entire commercial part and that related to management and in 2009 I arrived to run the stores, the marketing issue…”, lists Rosa Molina, who points out that the closure is due to a question of adaptation to new times. “The multi-brand store in Spain is disappearing and maintaining our factory structure, staff and stores, which work very well, is not worth it,” she laments, after serving customers who are looking for their size among the latest stocks of jerseys or shirts. .
Molina admits that the farewell makes him “very sad”, but he assures, on the other hand, that carrying out a business involves “many headaches.” Thus, those responsible for the business until now face this new stage with “uncertainty and a little fear”, but at the same time they do so with enthusiasm. “Something good will await us, for sure,” predicts one of the sisters.
They are sad to close. And customers are sad that Molgoy is closing. And they have let Rosa know this since the decision was announced. “They have told us that it makes them sad, but they understand that things for small and medium-sized businesses are very complicated,” says the owner of a business that had “up to 25” employees.
The sign announcing the liquidation has been hanging in the Logroño store for several weeks now and, since then, customers have not wanted to give up the opportunity to make their latest purchases. “The first days were crazy and these last ones, too,” says Rosa Molina. “There are clients who have taken up to five or six items of clothing and some of them have even told me that they already have ‘Molgoys’ for the rest of their lives,” she says.
The company locks it, but its jerseys will not stop being seen on the street, something that gives the granddaughters of the founders “enormous” satisfaction. “We know that the quality we offer is difficult to find anywhere else,” says Rosa, who believes that her grandparents would be “very proud” to see how far that adventure that began seventy years ago has come. “We have fought until the end and we leave with the satisfaction of having made a good product and having offered exceptional service to customers,” she concludes.
Molgoy factory in Navarrete.
Sonia Third
The business project of an Andalusian and a Basque woman
“An Andalusian and a Basque woman who wanted to carry out an exciting business project.” This is how the Molgoy website explains the beginnings of the company founded seven decades ago and which soon settled in La Rioja, back in the sixties and seventies. “At that time, knitwear for women, men and children was manufactured, without specializing, and more or less of each segment was produced depending only on what customers demanded,” it is stated.
At the end of the seventies, and now with the help of the second generation of the family, the machinery was modernized and the customer market expanded “significantly.” “With the expansion of the distribution market also comes specialization in the men’s segment,” is noted on the website of a company that, before its current location, built its store in Logroño on Belchite Street and on the corner of the Lardero and Somosierra streets, where the factory was located before moving to Navarrete.
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