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The King Juan Carlos realized today his fifth official visit to Cantabria to take part in the commemoration of the centenary of Nestlé's factory in The Penilla, the first one that the Swiss multinational opened in Spain.
In his visit to the factory, which lasted one hour and a half, Don Juan Carlos saw an explanatory video on Nestlé's history, discovered a commemorative plate of the centenary, crossed the facilities of the floor of packed of chocolates and greeted the workers.
The visit of the King to this factory, which has an average staff of 750 workers, began little before 12.30 hours, when he came to The Penilla after landing in Parayas's Airport, where he came on board of a Falcon F-900.
The King was received between the plaudits of the citizens that they congregated in the surrounding areas of the factory for the minister of Agriculture, Elena Espinosa; the president of Cantabria, Michael Angel Revilla; the delegate of the Government, Agustín Ibáñez; the president of the Parliament, Michael Angel Palacio, and the maximums responsible Nestlé's in Spain and Europe, Jose Arcas y Lars Olofsson, respectively.
Don Juan Carlos moved, later, together with the authorities to a tent where he was waited by 102 mayors of the town halls of Cantabria, syndical representatives, of the employer one, of the justice and of the academic area and in the tour he received the plaudits of the staff of the factory that congregated in the facilities.
The King saw an explanatory video of Nestlé's path and listened to the interventions of the president - general manager of the company in Spain, Jose Arcas, who qualified the visit of ' milestone in the history ' of the company, and of the director of the loor, Ulpiano García, who announced that this year the factory will beat a record of production, with more than 73.000 tons.
The projected video emphasized the entail of the Spanish Royal Family with the history of the factory, visited in several occasions from the inauguration, in 1905, for the King Alfonso XIII, grandfather of Don Juan Carlos, and for the infantes of Spain.
The floor received in 1929 the visit of the Infante Don Jaime, to inaugurate the line of production of chocolates, and belonged for years proveedora to the Royal Family, who authorized her to use his shield in the etiquettes and official invoices.
The King of Spain could see this morning a few photographies of the visits of his predecessors to the floor, which pleased specially the monarch, as he made clear to the journalists the mayor of Santa Maria of Cayón, Gastón Gómez.
Later, Don Juan Carlos discovered in the enclosure a commemorative plate of the centenary and of his visit, the first one that he realizes to the factory and to Cayón's valley and, later, he crossed the line of packed of chocolates, where he followed with ' a lot of interest ' the explanations of the executives, Ulpiano García indicated.
The visit to the factory concluded with the signature in the book of honor and a coctel in which the King greeted personally each of the counselors of the regional Government, to the mayors of Cantabria and to the members of the works committee.
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