Pello Rodríguez advocates for “another way of doing business” at BANG at BIG 2026

The president of MONDRAGON took part on October 8 in BANG, the main stage of BIG 2026, the major business and entrepreneurship event organized by Bpifrance in Paris. Before an audience of thousands, Pello Rodríguez shared the key principles of MONDRAGON’s cooperative model and argued for the need to ask not only how and how much we should grow, but, above all, what we are growing for.

“Electrification, cost pressures and sustainability are forcing us to reinvent ourselves”

Fagor Ederlan Slovakia (FESK) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Two decades of industrial and business evolution that Joxeba Agirre has experienced from the very beginning. He arrived in Slovakia in 2006, coinciding with the acquisition of the plant, and has since witnessed and played a key role in the transformation of the project, as well as in the evolution of a country and society that have little in common with those he encountered when he first arrived.