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Bodegas Yuntero, Award for Business Trajectory

19 November 2016

The City Council of Manzanares (Ciudad Real) has awarded the Jesús del Perdón-Bodegas Yuntero Cooperative the award for “Business Career”, during the sixth edition of the Business Conferences that were held from November 17 to 18 at the Castle of Good Batteries. The award recognizes the value contributed to the local and regional economy, as well as the creation of wealth in Manzanares for 62 years.

The awards ceremony was attended by, among other personalities, the Minister of Economy and Employment of Castilla La Mancha, Patricia Franco, the President of the Provincial Council, José Manuel Caballero and the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Ciudad Real, Mariano León. The Mayor of Manzanares, Julián Nieva, presented the award to the president of the Cooperative, Felix Cano.

Cano thanked this award on behalf of the 800 members that make up the Cooperative, and reviewed the 62 years of its history, remembering his six predecessors. Presidents who, at different stages and selflessly, contributed, with great effort and dedication, to building the current company: Jesús López Pelaez (12 years), Pedro González Román (4 years), Pedro Capilla (14 years), Antonio Patón Clemente (8 years old), Sinforoso Fernández Camuñas (4 years old) and Juan Luis Lozano Muñoz (12 years old).

Felix Cano continued with the recognition of the 102 members who, with success and courage, founded the Cooperative in 1954, supporting this company with their personal assets. Thanks to this effort and that of subsequent generations, the Cooperative today has the capacity to produce 111 million kilos of grapes, a turnover of more than 37 million euros, a Net Asset Value of 20 million and during the last five years it has developed investments for value of more than 20 million euros. In Cano's words: "today we tell the founders that we remember his memory and that they can feel proud of the contribution they made."

The president of the Cooperative also thanked the different managers, technical directors and workers of the Cooperative for their work, who have contributed with their knowledge and dedication to the growth of the company, with special mention to the current manager Ramón Alcarazo who took office in 1993 facing to a difficult stage and managed to overcome the situation with notable success.

During his speech, Cano indicated that the Cooperative was not only established as an instrument of defense for the farmer, but also as an economic anchor to give solidity to the development of a town and a region.

Finally, Felix Cano congratulated the rest of the award-winning companies during the Business Conference and reiterated his gratitude to the Manzanares City Council and Mayor Julián Nieva for granting this award and for maintaining activities and initiatives like these.

Video with a summary of the history of Bodegas Yuntero

Felix Cano, president of the Cooperative, during his speech. On the left, the Mayor of Manzanares Julián Nieva.

The president of the Cooperative surrounded by some of the Bodegas Yuntero workers, after receiving the award.

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QUALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD SAFETY POLICY

At Bodegas Yuntero we consider essential the development of a Quality, Environmental and Food Safety Management System, based on the Standards ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and in the BRC and IFS Food Safety Protocols, in order to certify the safe production of our wines, complying with the legal and regulatory requirements that are applicable in our wine production, aging, bottling and marketing activities, and with those established by the client, and other requirements that the organization subscribes, related to its environmental aspects and occupational health and safety hazards.

The Winery supports all staff in the maintenance and continuous improvement of the system, considering each worker as the protagonist of the most important phase of the service of a company of recognized Quality, also promoting responsibility towards the environment.

Bodegas Yuntero, through its Integrated Management System, allows patents, its concern and permanent commitment to Quality and the Environment and to achieve a guarantee for the future of our planet that only competitive, sustainable organizations at the forefront of the market can offer.

Our work is based on the following fundamental pillars:

  • Elaborate top quality products and that they meet the expectations of the interested parties, that they are innocuous, legal and authentic, adjusting to the specified quality, as well as assuming their responsibility towards their clients. This is achieved by defining a clear plan to drive the development and continuous improvement of a culture of quality and food safety.
  • Respect, before their employees, equal opportunityand treatment, their privacy, their freedom from opinion, to guarantee a safe and healthy work environment, the necessary training, employment stability, fair remuneration, as well as avoiding forms of psychological persecution.
  • Offer our customers a Quality service, within the agreed period, maintain due confidentiality and respect for the privacy of thier data, adopt an attitude of honesty and have procedures for handling suggestions and claims
  • Promote in all employees a greater degree of solidarity, responsibility, social participation and the culture of quality and food safety.
  • Manage effectively and efficiently, by making its business activity compatible with the exercise of its social responsibility.
  • Correct and precise definition of the procedures, responsibilities and functions to follow in all departments.
  • Compliance with all the legal requirements and applicable regulations, and other requirements that the organization subscribes.
  • Promotion of qualitu, environmental and food safety, at all comany levels, providing adequate training for all the staff.
  • Prevention, control and minimization of the environmental effects generated in the environment, originated from our activity.
  • Promotion of the implementation of segregation programs at the origin of waste, to favor its subsequent reuse and/or proper disposal.
  • Arrange the delivery of our products in a way that causes the lowest possible environmental impact , always making sure that the products reach our customers in suitable packaging that complies with the applicable environmental regulations.
  • It considers environmental criteria a priority in decision-making, and studying at all times the best environmental technology available, thus modernizing our processes to increase their effectiveness in a reasonable period of time and where necessary.

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