ROSA GALLEMÍ BALAGUÉ-ANTONIO PUIG S.A. 1RST ENTRY

This Blog aims to explain to the public opinion, apart from some personal aspects of my own long life, my relationship with the Puig family, owners of dozens of companies, including Antonio Puig S.A. and Flamagas S.A. (Flamasats S.A.) among others. I hope that before I lose my memory and my departure, society finds out about the reality and origins of the Puig family, thanks to my relationships with them, especially at the beginning of their career. I was born more than 101 years ago in Santa Eulalia, Sant Andreu del Palomar, Barcelona. At that time, this entire area consisted mainly of crop fields, vineyards and farmhouses. My paternal grandparents had fields of vineyards and ran a Butcher and Groceries up the Rambla de Santa Eulalia and I remember the great affection they had for me, being the first girl in the family. Likewise, my uncles, Francisco Castelló Carreras and Elisa Balagué Sans, who, having no children, always treated me like their own daughter. My uncle was a first cousin of Antonio Puig Castelló, founder of the current Puig group, and was married to his half-sister, Elisa. This was due to the fact that my maternal grandfather Joan Balagué, a Mechanical Engineer, died in Mérida de Yucatan in May 1900, where he is buried and in that region of Mexico he had crop fields and silver mines. When my maternal grandmother Roser Sans Andreu became a widower, she returned with all her children to Barcelona and remarried Ramón Castelló Carreras, father of Francisco and with the same last name, which is why he met my aunt Elisa, his stepsister, and in this way they married in El Guinardo, where my grandmother had her residence in the tower on Calle del Art nº 98, a farm next to where Flamagas started after a few years and a house that my grandmother acquired after doing the Americas, since she returned to Barcelona with an important fortune. Later she opened a wig and hairpiece business on Paseo de Sant Joan in Barcelona, ​​regularly traveling to the Philippines to buy the raw material. As we can see, my grandparents were more than entrepreneurs, since we are talking about more than a century ago, times when a trip to Asia or America lasted long weeks.

Sant Andreu del Palomar

                                                                             Santa Eulalia