PIKOLIN
PIKOLIN IS PART OF A BUSINESS GROUP THAT HAS ACQUIRED COMPANIES IN EUROPE AND ASIA FOR THIRTEEN YEARS . THERE ARE THIRTEEN TRADE BRANDS , INCLUDING COFEL , CEADESA , SMATEX , DUNLO ( PILLO AND HOSPITAL PARDO . THE COMPANY SELLS OUT OF THE STATE 70 % OF ITS PRODUCTION , INVOIC ( ES MORE THAN 350 MILLION EUROS ANNUALLY AND EMPLOYS 2,500 PEOPLE .
Its current owner , ALFONSO SOLANS SOLANS , appears after the families Ballet and Aragüés and Ángel Luengo in the list published by Forbes magazine . According to the same , its assets were between 300 AND 350 MILLION EUROS in 2014 . Its real wealth , however , is greater than the figure reflected , which has to add the balance in current accounts and the value of Goods such as houses or jewelry .
THE FOUNDER and president of the Pikolin mattress company was the father of the current owner , ALFONSO SOLÁNS SERRANO . He has been able to present himself as a prototype of a self-made man : from the age of 17 , he was able to work in the FACTORY of somieres and metal beds of his father , Alsovisa , with a law degree . In 1948 , as soon as it finished its studies , it set up a business of manufacture and sale of metallic beds by own account in the street Santia-go Lapuente , in the district of the Arrabal . The workshop will give rise to Pikolin , a leading MATTRESS EMPORIUM IN SPAIN and the second European group of rest products .
In his obituary in El País is said that he was a pioneer in EXPORTING TO ARAB COUNTRIES and that he participated in the creation of companies related to mattress , like Sunlay or Springwall . During the FEVERISH YEARS OF DEVELOPMENTALISM ( decades of the 60s and 70s ), its creators gave a slogan-amulet that , propagated by television advertising , contributed to multiply their sales and popularity :! My plin , I sleep In Pikolín !. Alfonso Soláns Serrano was a councilor of the CITY COUNCIL of Zaragoza between 1967 and 1976 , when the first democratic elections were held , which he did not appear declaring himself to be “ Franco-conquered .” HE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE DELEGATION OF TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT AND THE MUNICIPAL POLICE . Under his command he proceeded to the semaforización of Zaragoza
Pikolin facilities in ZARAGOZA on the Logrono Motorway , Km 6,5 . Operational until 2017 Pike5n , company founded by Alfonso Soláns Serrano . In several generations of family , trams were replaced by urban buses . He reformed the MUNICIPAL POLICE , opening the doors to the women . In the chapter of merits the Great Cross of Mer ( it for Work was conquered , and the Knight of San Jorge was invited to join the Royal Brotherhood of Infantry of Our Lady of Charity of the Imperial Villa of Illescas . Soláns Serrano , joined the presidency of Real Zaragoza on September 1 , 1992 , at the shareholders meeting that approved the transformation of the club into a sports limited company . Soláns , who had acquired 1 % of the shares and managed to CONTROL 84 % OF THE SHARES , presided the club until his death in 1996 . After his death both Pikolin and the football team were inherited by his son , ALFONSO SOLÁNS SOLÁNS , Which sold Alfonso Soláns Serrano with the Reza ’ s shirt in his football club presidency