Mundocom Telecommunications and The 3 Peas were the winners this year
The delegate of the Free Trade Zone presented the award to the first finalist to the Entrepreneurial Initiative, Blankers, a company located in the Fiscal Area
The gala was held at the Castillo de San Romualdo, San Fernando, before 200 attendeess
The Cádiz companies Mundocom (Cádiz) and Los 3 Guisantes (Chiclana) received on Thursday afternoon the awards of the “AJE Cádiz Awards, a lifestyle”, in the categories of Business Career and Entrepreneurial Initiative, respectively, in an event that brought together about 200 people, including provincial authorities and young entrepreneurs.
The general secretary of AJE Cádiz, Juan Antonio Martínez, proceeded to read the jury report that determined the name of the two finalists and winner of the Entrepreneurial Initiative and where Los 3 Guisantes was the winner among more than 15 candidates, with the Blankers company, located in the Fiscal Precinct, being the finalist, and to which the Free Trade Zone delegate, Jorge Ramos, presented the award.
Lucía del Castillo, CEO of Los 3 Guisantes, winner of the Entrepreneurial Initiative, collected the award from the president of AJE Cádiz, Jesús Belgrano, as well as the diploma from the Government delegate to the Andalusian Government, Fernando López Gil, and the mayor of the city, Patricia Cavada.
Los 3 Guisantes, based in Chiclana, is a company born in 2014, thanks to the tenacity and effort of its promoter, Lucía del Castillo, an entrepreneur who has managed to become a Google Partner and who runs an innovative International Online Marketing company, specialized in national and international SEO, a benchmark in the field of strategic online positioning.
In this second year of life, they have firmly opted for internationalization, since, since their inception, 90% of their turnover is foreign, which has led them to implement two new key strategies. On the one hand, an exclusive service for foreign companies that have Online Marketing campaigns in Spain or those that want to outsource this market to a local company like this one; and on the other, its association with Destino Xibanya with the aim of being stronger in the Asian market. Furthermore, despite its youth, Los 3 Guisantes is currently a certified Google Partner agency and is among its projects “with the greatest growth potential.” “It is one of the best marketing agencies in Spain,” according to Aula CM; appointment they have received for two consecutive years.
For his part, the businessman and promoter of Mundocom Telecomunicaciones, located in the capital of Cádiz, Manuel Queiruga, collected the award and diploma from the hands of the president of CEC, Javier Sánchez Rojas, and the president of AJE Cádiz, Jesús Belgrano.
Mundocom is a group formed by two companies, ITAPUAN S.L. AND HABLACOM S.L. Since its inception in 1999, its mission has been to “bring telecommunications closer to people and companies, providing them with efficient and updated use of the technology of their sector; always together with its main technological partner, Orange, and various top-level manufacturers.”
They have a team made up of more than 140 professionals, specialized technicians, commercial advisors, and an administration team, distributed in three different lines of business, Commercial Offices for Companies, chain of Stores and the management of Orange Stands in Carrefour, Media Mark and Alcampo shopping centers.
Their headquarters are in Cádiz capital and they have four direct commercial branches in Cadiz, Algeciras, Seville and Málaga and a franchised commercial branch in Madrid. In addition, they have a total of 40 points of sale, of which 17 are stores and 23 stands.
The AJE Cádiz Awards, which this year were held under the motto “Young entrepreneur, a lifestyle”, are aimed at all young Cadiz entrepreneurs no older than 41 years of age who have managed to consolidate their business project with success and viability. Both resulting provincial winners will compete for the Andalusian awards, whose presentation will take place this year in June in the capital of Almería.
The award was created as the AJE Cádiz Awards about ten years ago to recognize the efforts of young entrepreneurs, people who have focused their aspirations on creating their own company and who not only managed to launch their project, but with their effort and tenacity have achieved its viability and consolidation.
The candidates presented this year were Ad Hocs, Blankers, Cueva-catacumbas del Beaterio, Coupons Ciudad, Dress Code, Drocofly, Guidy, Healthy Blue Bits, Los 3 Guisantes, Maxingertch, Mira Comunicación, Miss Catas, Ploover, Todoves, Tengolarazon.com, 47 Degrees, Mundocom, Publitony and Xerintel.
Finalists
Entrepreneurial Initiative:
1st finalist: Blankers. Cadiz. It is the first Andalusian factory of foams used in a subsequent manufacturing process to obtain surfboards and longboards at a European level. Are
2nd finalist Healthy Blue Bits. San Fernando. Healthy Blue Bits (HBB) is a dream come true for Manuel Escobar y MªÁngeles Medina, promoters of a project that responded to a detected need and from which two Esporti Revolution products have emerged, the game of health that motivates and activates, and Esporti Masters, the app of health for the elderly and young.
Business Career
1st finalist. 47 Degrees. San Fernando. It is an international functional software consultancy. They provide solutions developed in technologies such as Scala, Spark, Akka or Play Framework to companies around the world. Their customer segment turns to them to solve concurrency problems when processing high volumes of data. They provide solutions developed in functional software for the analysis and management of Big Data.
2nd runner-up: Xerintel. Jerez de la Frontera. Xerintel is a web development company in which more than 1,200 freelancers, SMEs and large brands have developed their web project or online store, staying on its servers. In 2013, the prestigious Forbes magazine highlighted its CEO, Alberto Alcántara, among the 19 Spanish talents to know.