10 / 70
Carlos M. Jarque meets with the FCC teams
in Austria and in Barcelona
Austria
Carlos M. Jarque, the CEO of FCC, visited
the installations of FCC Environment Central
and Eastern Europe (CEE) facilities in Aus-
tria where he met with the local teams of
this subsidiary. Jarque was accompanied
by Agustín García Gila, the chairman of FCC
Medio Ambiente, and by Antonio Alfonso,
manager of this subsidiary’s international
department. The CEO pointed out in his
meetings with managers and employees
of the subsidiary in Austria, the importance
for the Group of the Environment and Water
divisions.
The CEO referred to the quarterly earnings
reported by the Group whose healthy ba-
lance sheet and improvement was driven by
a 14.7% increase in its international activi-
ties where it recorded double-digit growth
in all business areas. He mentioned that the
subsidiary in Central and Eastern Europe
contributed 12.7% of the earnings of the
Environment Division and said that he was
convinced that “there is still room for signi-
ficant upside that can be achieved through
productivity and by developing new pro-
jects”.
The CEO met win Austria
with the FCC International,
Central and Eastern
Europe Environment team
and travelled to Barcelona
to learn first-hand about
the opinion of employees
and managers.
Jarque encouraged the FCC Environment
CEE’s teams to “feed the strategic vision
of the entire Group” as one of the priorities
included in the list of challenges that had to
be tackled immediately. These challenges
also include the extension of concessions,
technological innovation, the profitability of
all projects, and being permanently aware
of the changes in a sector that is constantly
evolving.
As part of this list of challenges, Jarque refe-
rred to teamwork and the generation of sy-
nergies with the rest of the Group, the need
to preserve ad to encourage talent within
the organization and the conjunction of the
economic, financial, and social aspects of
each of the Group’s projects.