Advancing in its “transformation plan” to promote a more digital, more productive, more socially responsible, more sustainable and more conscious company model on its responsibility in contributing to improve the social and economic environment.
- Last 2 July, Mercadona reached an historic milestone with the opening of its first supermarket in Portugal, joined by 9 more stores, which allows it to end the year with 10 supermarkets, 900 people and more than 300 Portuguese suppliers, after investing 150 million euros in 2019.
- Mercadona ended last year with a workforce of 90,000 people with a permanent contract, after creating 4,200 new stable and high-quality jobs, 600 of them in Portugal; a network of 1,636 supermarkets and a total of 1,400 specialist Totaler Suppliers.
- For yet another year, it has continued to boost shared growth and has distributed the total profit generated in 2019 as follows: 340 million euros among workers as a bonus for reaching targets; 282 million for Society in the form of taxes, with an effective corporate tax rate of 18%; 493 million reinvested in the company as equity; and 130 million among its nine shareholders via dividends. All this has raised the company's net profit to 623 million euros, 5% more than the previous year.
- In 2019, Juan Roig and Hortensia Herrero proceeded, as they have been doing for a decade, to reinvest and share with society an important part of the dividends they receive in their personal equity. Specifically, 50 million euros, through the Legacy Project in its different initiatives: Marina de Empresas, Fundación Trinidad Alfonso, Valencia Basket Club, L’Álqueria del Basket, Licampa 1617 (València Arena) and Fundación Hortensia Herrero; and in 2020 they plan to share and invest another 76 million euros.