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He came into the office one day to fill a vacancy. It was 1989. Since then, Manuel José Carmona has never missed a single day, except for holidays or bank holidays. Sometimes not even that. "I'm dependent on GAMBÍN. Since I live across the street, even if it's a weekend, I come down for a while to organise my work. For me this is an extension of my house," he says. Who could have imagined this when, a few weeks after starting with us and having a subject left to finish his Social Graduate studies, he told his uncle Quino that he was getting overwhelmed. "I told him I was going to spend a week thinking about it: it's been 31 years since then and I'm still here," he smiles.

Digitalization is not the same as digital transformation. Few companies today are unaware of the former, while not so many are actually involved with the latter. The conversion to electronic formats of files, documents or programmes is now practically commonplace in any business or company, but it is far from the true vocation of change and revolution in the protocols, times, efficiency and therefore, general enhancement of the results that the digital transformation implies.

The safety of our employees and visitors is always a priority for us at GAMBÍN. This priority has been intensified more than ever due to the COVID-19 crisis while facilitating the usual development of the activity.

Her name is María Rufete Cruz but her peers know her as Marlen, a nod to her birthplace. This is how everybody knows her at GAMBÍN, although it would be more accurate to say the opposite: it is she who knows each and every person who is or has been part of the company. Thirty years after she joined the staff –with a 1995-2001 maternity leave-, there is no corner of our Cox facilities that keeps secrets for her.

Hers is a story of personal and professional growth within the company, a story of personal enrichment reflected on anyone that has had the pleasure of working with her. “I started working at GAMBÍN when I was 17 years old and my task was to clean and pack. Until one day I got offered a job in what back then was the sales department.

The quality of GAMBÍN citrus is not by chance. Behind each colour, scent and taste of our unique oranges and lemons, there is our defining care for detail, processes, and people. The care that sets us apart and makes us who we are is also present in our farms. They are the result of their privileged location, combined with our expertise, which blends ancestral procedures with the most cutting-edge industrial techniques.

Among them, one can find Lo Belmonte II. Located between Cox and Orihuela, this is a 10 hectares plantation with a total of 5.450 trees.

Lo Belmonte II sits on a silty-loam textured soil, made up of 42% sand, 52% silt and 6% clay, combined with low organic matter content, below 2%.

In a sector such as agri-food, in which the cycle from production to marketing is long, financing is a fundamental tool to successfully complete the process. 

Generally, financial institutions offer companies a financing period maximum up to 90 to 120 days.

But what happens to companies who grow a product for 9 months, collect it, pack it, market it, and finally turn it into money again only when in receipt of payment from their customers?