Interview with Luis Alejandra Pagani, interviewed by Andrea Lluch, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contributors: Lluch, Andrea, interviewer; Harvard Business School
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Interviews; Industrialists; Food industry and trade; Social responsibility of business; Entrepreneurship; Family-owned business enterprises; Business; History; Economic conditions; Politics and government; Commerce; ARCOR (Firm)
Description: Mr. Pagani discusses the particularities of the global confectionery industry and his family's founding of Grupo Arcor. He also details the difficulties encountered as a result of Argentina's many economic and political crises, especially how Grupo Arcor has dealt with periods of high inflation and minimal access to new capital. Mr. Pagani also describes the relationship between the business community, the media, and the Argentine government. He further elaborates on the company's social and environmental policies and how the Pagani family's participation in the group has changed over time.
Notes: Interview translated into English. Transcript available in English and Spanish.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 18, 2014).

Interviewed in Spanish on 2008 November 18 in Buenos Aires by Dr. Andrea Lluch, HBS Research Associate, through the sponsorship of the Business History Initiative, Harvard Business School.

Interview with Luis Alejandra Pagani, interviewed by Andrea Lluch, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 18, 2008, Creating Emerging Markets Oral History Collection, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.

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Luis Alejandro Pagani serves as the president of Argentina's Grupo Arcor, one of the world's leading candy manufacturers and the main confectionery exporter in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Arcor was founded in 1951 and specializes in the manufacture of sugar and chocolate confectionery, cookies and crackers, ice cream, and foodstuff. Mr. Pagani began his career with Grupo Arcor in 1983 as chief commercial officer and was appointed the president and chief executive officer in 1993. He has also been the president of the Asociación Empresaria Argentina (AEA), secretary to the Carolina Foundation of Argentina since 2003, and vice president of the Argentine-Mexican Chamber of Commerce. He has been a member of the Latin American Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG since January 2008.

Forms part of: Latin American oral history collection, 2006-2009.

Forms part of: Creating Emerging Markets oral history collection, 2006-