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OUR STORY

La Antequerana  is one of the oldest companies in Andalusia. In its 125 years of existence, it has grown and transformed to become a modern enterprise that stays true to its founding principles.

 

The company has advanced facilities in the Business Park of Antequera .and after the recent incorporation of the company to San Roque Group Antequera, has renovated its historic bakery-cafe which offers baked goods all year

 

The year was 1888 when Manuel Avilés founded the Antequerana Giráldez. Don Manuel was a man with cultural interests that participated in politics from a young life of Antequera immersed in the industrial development of its textile mills and metallurgical.
At first, the field burly men strove to knead the butter with the flour, sugar and cinnamon, while the oven heated with the olive shortbread sticks and women were cooking, sitting around long tables, gave way to products and enveloped between songs.

 

The success of The Antequerana, from his earliest years, was due to the careful selection of raw materials and the care taken in the preparation of the products. That's the philosophy that managed to impose its founder and has been preserved over four generations. A Don Manuel succeeded him in 1935, his son-Juan Perez de Guzman, who under the name of the Son of Manuel Aviles, gave a great impetus to the growth of the company, increasing sales throughout Spain.

 

Years later, in 1953, Isabel Pérez Avilés, granddaughter of the founder, took over the Antequerana when he was only 20 years old "is so worthwhile for a young woman at that time", with the support of her husband, Jose Ramos Espinosa , in front of the bakery. Both were able to ensure the continuity of a traditional way of making a world changing at top speed.
The children of the marriage were incorporated to the corporation in the late eighties, coinciding with the centenary of The Antequerana.

 

Since 1996, after the death of Doña Isabel in 1994, his son William Pérez Ramos takes over the family business. In this period the growth of the company as successors of Manuel Avilés strengthened and the leap to combining artisanal manufacturing base with the necessary mechanization of certain processes occurred. In 2012, The Antequerana Group was acquired by San Roque Antequera, under the direction of Juan Palacios Stops, gathers companies Muffin San Roque, SA and Piquitos San Roque, SL

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