José Artés de Arcos

Business career

In 1972 in a memoir Artés de Arcos wrote:

"Like so many others I also had to leave home and my people (Alhama de Almería), and like so many, I headed for the highly industrial region, industrious and intelligent, Catalonia, where work together with studies in the hours that belonged to rest, the sum struggle for life, for long, long years, has been crowned with success, not through easy business nor via lotteries, let alone through human exploitation, but by creating innovations that the public consumer paid for handsomely, like a caprice, my own inventions that have gone around the world and have been copied in all the industrialized countries."

In Barcelona, for his performance as a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation, plus the work done for its producers, building them two groups of 60 homes among other social benefits, and at their request, the Government granted Artés de Arcos the title of Business Model.

Manufacturing career

As an entrepreneur, José Artés de Arcos founded his own company, called José Artés de Arcos SA, a pioneer in Spain in the field of automotive industry supplies, as a manufacturer of lights, speakers, board boxes, flyers, among others. He introduced the French multinational, Jaeger, into Spain, forming the Artés-Jaeger company, whose production halls were found in Barberà del Vallès, Barcelona Province. In this company all automotive electronic parts from different European brands were made. Artés de Arcos also brought the French headlights manufacturing company, Cibie, to Spain with which he formed a company called PASA. This time he took advantage of the industrialization plans of southern Spain, building the factory in Martos, Jaén province. José Arcos Artés S.A. had production facilities in Barcelona, Madrid and Almeria, from which it supplied to automotive manufacturers.