In a year as hard and complex as 2020, Mercadona has achieved the best management in its history, thanks to the 95,000 people who make up the Mercadona Project who have shown with their effort and resilience that in extraordinary times, extraordinary people show up.
- Mercadona created 5,000 new jobs, an average of 16 per day, ending the year with a staff of 95,000 people with permanent contracts.
- The company has invested more than 1.5 billion euros, funded by its own resources, to accelerate the brutal transformation it is undergoing and to promote a more digital, productive and sustainable company model.
- After sharing 409 million euros in bonuses with its staff, representing more than 25% of the total profits generated, and 364 million with Society through taxes (29% more than in 2019), the company recorded a net profit of 727 million euros (+17%).
- In 2020, Juan Roig and Hortensia Herrero allocated 70 million euros of their dividends to reactivating the economy of the Valencian Community and Spain, and plan to increase this contribution in 2021 by 45% to 100 million euros, “because knowledge and money bring happiness... if you share them”.