The full City Council unanimously approved Totana of all the corporate grant of Honorary Citizen of the Loyal and Noble City Totana Fuentes Antonio Mendez.
This record, which began in October 2011, has hosted a total of 25 accessions within the prescribed period from groups and organizations in the locality.
With this award, together with the appointment of an avenue that gave a few months ago in the industrial area, the municipality of Totana pays tribute to the entrepreneur who made his mark in a national reference.
Biography
Antonio Fuentes Mendez was born in Atalaya de Mazarron in February 1932.
At 22 he started as a farmer in growing tomatoes, so ingrained for decades in the neighboring village.
For the development of their crops, initiating treatment with superphosphate of lime that was in his truck from Cartagena, spreading among farmers in the area, laying the foundation for his career in the fertilizer sector.
Expand your search for fertilizers in the area of Andalusia, olive farming was more advanced treatment with nitrate of Chile.
The expansion of its business of distributing fertilizer directly to farmers, it's in 1978 to open the first store in Totana, which has always had its reference in the Forward, near the Rambla of Pears.
The packaging and distribution structure was built to grow until 1993 that the last store, totaling 14,000 square meters of facilities.
The company, a family structure and under his leadership was the embryo and pattern of Group of Companies is now the leading distributor of fertilizers in the Spanish State, whose base lies in the Municipality of Totana and has more than 120 direct jobs.
