Silvia Naishtat
10/22/2020 5:55 PM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 10/22/2020 5:55 PM
Gustavo Grobocopatel, known as the king of soybeans for his role as a businessman during the oilseed boom,
decided to resign from the presidency of Grupo Los Grobo and go to live in Uruguay,
in what seems to be a trend for the business environment .
The businessman told
Clarín
that he first passed the quarantine in the neighboring country and
"being quite installed, I decided a little more.
I am approaching 60 years and
I want to choose what to do and what not to do
.
"
Reluctant to give more details, those who know him well, who are few, link to
the fiscal issue and what has been called "trench fatigue
."
In other words, fatigue due to the difficulties posed by Argentina.
Vice President Santiago Cotter will hold the presidency of Los Grobo until the next Assembly.
And
Matilde Karina Grobocopatel, Gustavo's sister
, will be the titular director.
In the letter he sent to the company with his resignation, Grobocopatel states: "Over time I have been thinking about what I would like to do and where to develop it. I found
a place in Uruguay
several years ago
. The arrival of the pandemic, its prolongation in the time and the health risks it poses accelerated this process and I have been living here for almost a year. I know this shore well, where I have worked for many years. I have learned to love this place and its people, so similar to me For this reason, I will leave the presidency of the company in the coming days, keeping
my shareholding in the group companies unchanged
and I will focus my professional efforts on the search for international expansion opportunities of Los Grobo and on the
activities of consulting
that I want to develop in different parts of the world. My affections and my dreams live and will continue to live together with yours. We are part of a fantastic feat to which we join
s almost 40 years ago: transforming the interior with sustainable development in the broadest sense of the word. "
Among the businessmen, the first to cross the pond
was Marcos Galperin, who resigned from directing the destiny of Mercado Libre, the most valuable company in the country, in Argentina.
Then he was followed by bankers such as Federico Tomasevich de Puente and Claudio Porcel de Balanz
and part of
Globant's
senior management
, to mention those who took public status.
The British school in Montevideo made it known that it no longer has vacancies
due to the arrival of the Argentines.
In the case of Grobocopatel, he is striking because at first he showed
some empathy with the Alberto Fernández government.
Grobocopatel revolutionized the way of working in the field with
precision agriculture, services and association with producers.
But the group's expansion to Brazil in partnership with the Japanese Mitsubishi played a trick on it.
He had to sell a large part of Los Grobo in Macri's time.
In 2017, it
ceded 75% of the capital to the Victoria Capital Partner fund, which injected them with US $ 100 million
.
The company has Agrofina strong in agrochemicals, they produce seeds, but they
were detached from the production of pasta.
Victoria Capital, which succeeded in adding the Grobo to the IFC, the financial arm of the World Bank, the Dutch bank FMO and the University of Texas, which for the first time set foot in the country.
The fund is a shareholder of Zucamor (cardboard packaging) and of the seed producer Satus Ager.
Los Grobo was founded by Bernardo Grobocopatel, who came to America in 1910 from Russia to work as a rural contractor.
Since then it has been pure growth as large producers, collectors, service providers and agro-industrialists.
They also expanded to Uruguay and Paraguay.
