ROSA GALLEMÍ BALAGUÉ-ANTONIO PUIG S.A.  6TH DELIVERY

                                           

              With my 5 children in Castelldefels, in one of the first Kodak color photos, late 50's

                                

In the middle, my uncles Francesc and Elisa, behind me and my husband Josep, on the left my parents                                                               Joan and Maria, years 40

                                

 With my Falguera Balagué family in her house in Martorell and my parents, children and paternal                                                                         uncle Pere, late 1950s

                                                      

                                          My uncle Francesc Castelló in Italy, 1950s

                                                    

                                                                    In Castelldefels

                                                    

                                                  His first cousin Antonio Puig Castelló

In the mid-1950s, in our Industrias Metálicas Metamar factory, with 1,500 m2 and 140 permanent workers plus 70 external workers, we produced metallic articles for radios, television, pens, ballpoint pens, thermostats and for clients such as Lamps Z, Inter, Iberia Radio, Emerson, Hermetic Unit, Philips, Seat, Renault, Barreiros, etc. We had also started the production of metallic and liquid gasoline lighters, JUTSON brand, being the first and only ones in the market that manufactured this type of product and without any competition. My husband started a wide variety of types, shapes and finishes of lighters, gas fillers, spare parts and that later we would manufacture more and more models and quantities, as there was no competitor in the country, as he said. At the end of the 1950s, we also started exporting to the demanding Swiss market and later to other European countries such as Germany and also to American countries such as Chile, Argentina and Mexico, among others, which gives an idea of ​​the quality with which we already produced in those years of so much lack.

From the very beginning, we had a fairly complete structure in our lighter factory, a mechanical workshop for our own production of the necessary dies, the metal drawing section with several presses, the electrolytic baths and painting section, the polishing section , the welding section, the faceting section, the butane gas section, the assembly section and also the verification or quality control section, the repair section and finally the dispatch and distribution section that I personally handled. On the other hand, we had the administrative and commercial part with 10 own vendors, all of them with company vehicles, not very common at that time. We also had our own Delegation in General Mola Street in Madrid. Already in the 60's we invoiced an important figure for the time, more than 100 Million Ptas.

                                    

                                    Commercial card of my first company Rosaga years 40

                                   

                                 Commercial card of our second company Metamar years 50

In the same decade of the 1960s, Josep Mº Puig Planas asked me to sell him a farm that I owned on Maspons y Labros Street, in the Guinardo neighborhood of Barcelona, ​​since the Puig family, in view of the such a rapid and positive evolution of our lighter company, he also wanted to enter this sector, thus establishing himself next to my uncle Francesc Castelló's factory on Art Street. Given the financial situation of the Puigs at that time, very different from now, I agreed to this by helping them with very advantageous conditions for Josep Mª, due to the friendship and family relationship that we had with the Puigs for many years before, a relationship that deteriorated later, as I will explain later. It is on this farm where they took their first steps in activities other than the Colonies and always hand in hand with my uncle Francesc Castelló.