Between 18 and 21 October the XIIIth ONCE Business Corporation (CEOSA) Corporate Conference took place, bringing together the top-level  managers of the group companies: Confortel Hotels, Alentis Group, ONCISA, PRIMUR, R.C. Food, Seguronce and Viajes 2000, as well as top management and specialists from the Corporate Centre. This edition, which focussed upon analysing Innovation as a key element for developing modern companies, changed its traditional venue, taking place on this occasion in the Confortel Calas de Conil (Cadiz), an unbeatable setting for this important annual CEOSA event, at which, along with an exhaustive analysis of each of the Group companies, all of its managers enjoyed several intense days together.

The event was opened by José Mª Arroyo, chief executive, who after welcoming the delegates handed over to Andrés Ramos, 2nd vice president of the ONCE Board.

During his speech he made it clear how proud ONCE is of its Business Corporation and encouraged those present to continue working along the same lines in order to put CEOSA amongst the top business groups in Spain. Next there was an analysis, by Enrique Servando Sánchez and Eduardo González, CEOSA managing director and Finance and Investments director respectively, of the Corporation’s progress during the previous financial year, covering each and every one of the companies making up the Group and moving on to define their future objectives  and concluding by mentioning the future General Financial Plan.

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Going into the analysis of the CEOSA business situation from its different parameters, Patricia Sanz, Corporate Organisation and Human Resources Director, broadly analysed the policies and progress made by the Corporation in this area. Also worth special mention is the speech by José Luis Larrea, president of Ibermática, who gave a masterly speech concerning “Innovation”, the central theme of this conference. Along with him, Guillermo Garrucho, Project Director of Indra’s D.D.P, also attended and illustrated with case studies how they manage aspects of Business Innovation in their organisation.

Other specialists in the field supported the event, such as César Fernández, associate director of “Norman Broadbent” (who also served as a collaborating consultant at this event), who made the delegates aware of the current importance of Innovation in all areas of business, as a differentiating factor in earning the customer’s loyalty.

The Corporate Conference ended with some indoor activities the objective of which was to demonstrate the basic principles of implementing Innovation in companies in a practical way. The result was a complete success according to those taking part, who in addition to having a good time could see the benefit of this kind of activity.

The conference was brought to a close by Ángel Sánchez, ONCE general manager, who once again did not want to miss the event, who took advantage of his speech to inform delegates of the most relevant events which have taken place in ONCE, the only shareholder of CEOSA.