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