PARIS – Mariano Puig Planas, a member of the second technology of the Puig household that owns the eponymous Spanish perfume and trend firm, has died at age 94.
He was a former president of Puig, who spearheaded its worldwide enlargement and was instrumental in bringing within the perfume and trend companies of designers comparable to Paco Rabanne and Carolina Herrera.
Mariano Puig was born in Barcelona in 1927. He earned a doctorate diploma in chemical engineering and was a graduate of the IESE Business School in 1964.
He is the daddy of 4 sons, together with Puig chairman and chief government officer Marc Puig, and one daughter.
“Beginning in his youth, Mariano Puig stood out for his management skills and a way for enterprise progress, establishing vital ties with the United States, the Caribbean and France,” the corporate mentioned in a press release Tuesday.
At the tip of the Fifties, he sealed a distribution settlement for the Agua Lavanda Puig perfume within the U.S., then grew to become the consultant for the Max Factor model’s distribution in Spain for greater than 15 years.
That expertise within the U.S. was adopted by Puig setting his sights on one other overseas nation – France. In 1968 in Paris, he signed a collaboration settlement with Rabanne for the creation of the designer’s perfumes.
In 1987, Puig and Herrera inked an settlement for the manufacturing of her fragrances, and that was adopted by the acquisition of her trend division in 1995, which he negotiated.
Puig was additionally a founding member of the Family Business Institute in Spain, the place he served as president from 1995 to 1997.
Puig was a member of quite a few establishments, together with the Spanish Royal Academy of Language Foundation, the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado and the University Board of IAE Business School.
As a younger man, he served as a member of the Spanish National Water Skiing Team and have become the champion of Spain twice within the sport. He was president of the Spanish Federation of Water Skiing and arranged the World Championship in water snowboarding in Banyoles, Spain, in 1971.
Puig acquired quite a few awards, together with the gold medal from the Spanish Institute of New York, the Family Business Award from Chicago’s Kellogg University and the Kingdom of Spain Award for his enterprise profession, which was offered by King Felipe VI in February 2019.
Puig is survived by his spouse, Maria Guasch, and kids.
Plans for his funeral service couldn’t instantly be discovered.
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