Grupo Marsans
The Grupo Marsans was a Spanish tourism and aviation company. It belonged to the Spanish entrepreneur Gerardo Díaz Ferrán , the former owner of Spanair , Air Comet and Viajes Marsans. He was arrested on December 3, 2012 for asset concealment and money laundering.
The company was founded in Barcelona in 1908 . It was active in Spain , Portugal , France , Italy , Brazil , Mexico , Venezuela , Argentina and had over 12,000 employees. The group offered flights, hotels and vacation trips. On April 20, 2010 the IATA ( International Air Transport Association ) revoked "Viajes Marsans" the license to sell airline tickets. The 3,500 employees of "Viajes Marsans" received no salary in March and April 2010.
The weekly newspaper Die Zeit outlined the situation on May 5, 2010:
Gerardo Díaz Ferrán has hit several companies, including the Spanish airline Air Comet, against the wall. He withdrew 238 million euros from the company treasury of his travel company Viajes Marsans. Nobody knows where the money went. The German fund company Union Investment owes Marsans four million euros in rent and his 3,500 employees the salary for the past two months. In any other democratic country he would be suspected of fraud. But not in Spain: The 67-year-old is even head of the Spanish employers' association CEOE. Economics minister Elena Salgado also continues to support the entrepreneur.
The newspaper Handelsblatt wrote in a column on May 2, 2010:
The Spanish employer president watches as his own companies slide into bankruptcy. But that doesn't bother him in his office.
Airlines
Grupo Marsans held shares in the following airlines:
- Air Comet (insolvent since December 25, 2009) and Air Comet Chile
- Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral
- In 2008 Marsans was pushed for sale to the Republic of Argentina.
- In 2007, 95 percent was sold to the Scandinavian SAS Group .
Airbus orders
In December 2006, Grupo Marsans ordered 17 Airbus A330-200s. At the beginning of November 2008, another four A380s, ten A350-900s, five A330-200s and 42 single-aisle jets of the A320 family (12 A319s, 25 A320s and 5 A321s) with an order volume of 6.5 billion US dollars or 5.13 billion euros.
Hotels
The Days Inn hotel chain with several hotels in the Balearic Islands , Canary Islands , Cuba , Mexico and the Dominican Republic also belongs to Grupo Marsans .
Bus companies
- Travel Bus SA
- TRAPSA
See also
Web links
- Marsan's Homepage (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.abc.es/economia/20121203/abci-diaz-ferran-litigios-judiciales-201212031413.html
- ↑ El Pais (elpais.com), April 20, 2010: Marsans asegura que sigue vendiendo billetes de algunas compañías : [1]
- ↑ Stefanie Müller: Financial problems: Spain suppresses the crisis. In: Zeit Online. May 5, 2010, accessed December 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Handelsblatt dated May 2, 2010
- ↑ http://www.eads.net/1024/de/pressdb/pressdb/20080828_airbus_grupo_marsans_a330-200.html
- ↑ http://www.airliners.de/news/artikelseite.php?articleid=16690
- ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/marsans100.html ( Memento from November 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )