Dana Valencia: The owners of Luanvi, Mas Camarena and Deliplus, three businessmen linked to sports and close to Juan Roig | Economy

The trail of four of the best-known Valencian businessmen in the region was lost on the afternoon of October 29. José Luis Marín, founder of the Siglo XXI schools in Valencia; Vicente Tarancón, co-founder and sole administrator of the sports firm Luanvi; Miguel Bordeos, president of the cleaning products manufacturer SPB, and Antonio Noblejas, former general director of the , were that afternoon in the area of ​​Cheste, where the cleaning group that has Deliplus as one of its most recognized brands has its headquarters. . By then, they were already beginning to fall on the province of Valencia, first generating important complications in the mobility of the population and then leaving a landscape of devastation in its towns. Since that day they appeared on the list of missing people after the storm, until this Sunday, while there is still no news from Noblejas. The four of them maintained a friendship forged in Valencian business environments. They shared days of golf and meals, like the one they celebrated on the day of the flood at the La Orza de Ángel restaurant, located in the town of Chiva, near Cheste.

These are four businessmen with significant specific weight in the province of Valencia, to which they were united by significant personal and professional roots. The four were over 70 years old and had “life resolved,” according to a person familiar with their careers, marked by success in business and public recognition. They were well-known executives and well connected in the business and institutional environments of the area, as specified by the sources consulted, which define them as “important” businessmen within the Valencian ecosystem. An area where family-owned companies predominate, such as those founded by Marín, Tarancón and Bordeaux, deeply rooted in the province.

Long business careers

Antonio Noblejas, who is still missing, is a native of Manzanares (Ciudad Real), an economist, advisor to the consulting firm Forlop and patron of the . He joined his career in Valencia in the early 1980s, when he launched the local office of Arthur Andersen (now Deloitte). For 21 years, as a partner of the professional services firm, Noblejas headed its operations in the autonomous community, since 2005, and for 14 years, assuming the general management of EDEM, a business school born under the umbrella of the Valencian Association of Entrepreneurs, and that today is part of who he was a close person to.

It had also been for years to José Luis Marín, the oldest of the four missing businessmen, and whose body was found lifeless this past Sunday. 85 years old, he was the founder of the Siglo XXI school group. In 1962 he inaugurated the Marni School, and to date he was the owner, among others, of the Mas Camarena educational complex, located in one of the most exclusive urbanizations in the north of Valencia and one of the favorite schools of the Valencian elite.

This business allowed him to weave threads with the business circle of the province. Its pre-university center, for example, hosted numerous conferences and corporate meetings. In 2015, Marín himself signed, together with Antonio Noblejas, a collaboration agreement with EDEM to bring his students closer to the business environment. The relationship between both educational entities has been close. In 2019, Mercadona advisor and daughter of Juan Roig, she served as godmother at the graduation of the students of the school’s thirteenth Baccalaureate class.

Marín was also very fond of soccer and was closely linked to the province’s sports teams. He was a patron of the Levante UD Foundation, a club of which he was a small shareholder and member since his childhood. That did not prevent him from establishing strong relationships with Valencia CF, with which Siglo XXI has had an agreement for years to train the footballers of its quarry. The entity regretted his death on social media as he was “a businessman closely linked to our club.”

Closeness to the Roigs

Not only José Luis Marín and Antonio Noblejas had strong ties with the Roig family. Miguel Bordeos was the president of Softeners and Plasticizers Bituminosos (SPB), a company known for being one of Mercadona’s main suppliers since 2000 with its cleaning, hygiene and personal care brands Bosque Verde and Deliplus. Passionate about basketball, he was a regular at the Fuente de San Luis Pavilion, where Valencia Basket of the ACB plays its games, a team of which he was an advisor and whose owner is Juan Roig.

Bordeaux is one of the most recognized figures in the Valencian business scene. Member of the board of directors of the was one of the strong men of the, where he held the vice presidency, and was the head of Quimacova, the Association of Chemical and Environmental Companies of the region. He graduated in chemical sciences from the University of Valencia and took the reins of the family business 45 years ago, in which he shares shares with his wife, Amparo Martí, and their three children. Today, this bill is almost 228 million euros

“Affordable and from the common people”, as a person close to him defines him, his experience has also led him to a multitude of institutional positions such as the presidency of the association of the Aldema cleaning products companies, the presence on the board of the Premios Foundation Rei Jaume I (where EDEM, CEV and the IVO Foundation are also represented), one of the most recognized organizations for the promotion of scientific research and development in Spain; or to a member in the Chamber of Valencia. Added to this is his presence in educational circles as director of the Chair of Management and Business Culture of the Social Council of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. His contact with the cultural and intellectual elite of the province allowed him access to the Nobel Prize winners who visited the province, for example those who received one of the awards from the King Jaume I Prize Foundation, whom he took to the SPB facilities to stimulate your staff.

Luanvi is one of the most recognized brands in Valencia and Spanish sports. Its president, Vicente Tarancón, was one of the three founders of the sportswear company in the early seventies, along with his brothers José Luis and Antonio.

Of the four missing, he was the only one still on the front line of his business. Luanvi has dressed the autonomous community’s soccer teams such as Valencia, Villareal and Levante, and also Juan Roig’s Valencia Basket, with a relationship that is close to 30 years. The relationship with the president of Mercadona does not stop there, since Luanvi is a technical partner of the Valencia marathon, organized by the Trinidad Alfonso de Roig Foundation. Tarancón was a regular at the golf club near the Luanvi factory in Paterna, also adjacent to the Más Camarena School. “Man of solid principles, generous and committed, whose work ethic and team spirit have been an inspiration for generations,” Luanvi describes him.