Part of the press conference given yesterday at the premises of the Chamber of Commerce and Services.
The International Community of Schoenstatt Entrepreneurs and Executives (CIEES), with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and Services of Ciudad del Este, presented an educational program aimed at entrepreneurs from Alto Paraná, called “Family Businesses-Generational Transfer Protocols” . This is a cycle of talks that will begin on March 22. It is estimated that in Paraguay 80% of businesses are family owned.
Lawyer Nelly Díaz, president of CIEES, explained that more than 80% of the labor force, which generates employment, in the country are family businesses. “We are very happy to be able to announce this today and invite everyone to participate in the talks that will take a month and a half from each other.”
Elizabeth López, vice president of CIEES and Juan Ramírez of the Chamber of Commerce and Services participated in the press conference. During the development of the series of 5 events, issues related to generational transfer will be developed. This is a very important process for businessmen, and this is the main reason why they have decided to create this educational program.
The events will allow local businessmen to access training and conferences through testimonials from businessmen of the highest level in Paraguay from abroad, who will share their experiences in their respective companies.
Entrepreneurs of the stature of Mr. Rubén Mujica, founder CEO of Luminotecnia, a successful Paraguayan company that today has more than 850 employees on its staff, have been confirmed. The presence of the successful businessman Babbio Sallustro, founder CEO of Sallustro y CIA, a company with more than 60 branches throughout the country and more than 400 points of redistribution of its products throughout the national territory, is also announced.
Díaz explained that they seek to forge a new social order from the “new man.” It is the cause and it is for them that from the CIEES, which is an International Network present in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, the United States, Mexico, Peru and Paraguay.
PROCESS
“We are committed to promoting educational processes that allow the development and coordination of leaders who inspire and give hope with their example, building that world we seek, giving each nucleus of relationship a promoter of coexistence in values and from where the social peace,” he explained.
That is why they began this year to look at the companies that represent 75% of the labor force in Latin America and that are family businesses. “The importance of family businesses is increasingly recognized, both in the generation of wealth and employment, however we are not adequately addressing their problems, since it is estimated that only one in three family organizations manages to successfully move on to the next generation”.
That is why they are now launching this proposal, which consists of a series of conferences on generational transfer protocol in family businesses. “It starts this month of March and goes until the month of October. It has been shown that a correct understanding of these organizations followed by proper planning in them positively influences their consolidation and permanence. To understand them, it is necessary to generate knowledge of them and translate it in a clear and conducive way so that it can be used properly.
HEALTH INSURANCE
Díaz pointed out that this effort by the local CIEES with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and Services, is joined by the Universidad Nacional del Este (UNE) through the Faculty of Economics, with whom a framework agreement will be signed next week with the which will begin an academic work so that in the future it can also be counted at the local level, with specialist technicians who are prepared to address these processes.
