ROSA GALLEMI BALAGUÉ-ANTONIO PUIG SA 7TH ENTRY

                               DEBT CONTRACTED BY PUIG AND NOT RETURNED

                                   

                     METAMAR machining workshop at C/Pujadas, 20 in Barcelona, ​​1950s

                                                       

                                                                   Mounting section

                                 

                                   

                                   

                                                                       Press Section

                                    

                                                             Electrolytic Baths Section

                                     

                                                                    My husband Josep

These photos show part of the facilities of our Metamar factory, which were gradually renovated throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, adapting them to the needs of lighter production, which were becoming more and more sophisticated. all the way to the first refillable plastic lighter on the market, our Roni model, before Clipper, Bic, Cricket and others saw the light. We were the pioneers of the market, as evidenced by our Invention Patents and our Catalogs, by the way, Roni lighter later copied by these mentioned brands among others.

                                                            

                                                                  

                                    Roni, the first refillable plastic lighter on the market

A few years earlier, specifically in 1957, Antonio Puig Castelló asked us to hire his son Josep Mª Puig Planas, who was a young at the time and for whom his father was looking for an occupation to train him. My uncle Francesc Castelló, together with my father Joan Gallemí, Representative of Industrias Metálicas Castelló, did not hesitate to do him this favor and in this way he joined my uncle's company for a few years. I am attaching a letter dated 31, 10, 1957 in which my uncle informs the market that his company has since become an S.A. and where the name of Josep Mª Puig Planas appears as an employee.

                                                      

Letter from my uncle Francesc Castelló where Josep Mº Puig Planas is mentioned as an employee and                                       my father Joan Gallemí Claveria as Power Representative

                                                 

                                                              Josep Maria Puig Planas

                                                      

                                 Marc Puig Guasch, ANTONIO PUIG S.A. Administrator

                                                          

                                                       My father Joan Gallemi Claveria

A few years before my uncle's previous letter, Antonio Puig and his children bought a building in the

Travesera de Gracia next to Calle Calvet in Barcelona to Dr. Gimenez Salinas, whose son José-Luis would precisely work with them for quite some time and they located there what would be his central office for many years. As I explain in my Notarial Act 1148 of 5, 8, 2014 of the Notary Bosch Carrera and that I can explain again before a Judge if necessary, not having the sufficient amount for said acquisition. the Puigs opted for a bank loan and the rest, taking advantage of the ties that united both families, asked me and my father to lend them an amount of 35,000 Ptas. in cash plus an additional 200,000 Ptas., a loan extended later as I will demonstrate in my next delivery. Some time went by and when the Puigs did not repay our loan, we repeatedly demanded said amount from their Agent Representative, Mr. Armando Soler Cayla, and the response at that time was that the Puigs' businesses were not doing well, which was possible and understandable. Talking to my children about this situation a few years ago, specifically in 2014, and making it necessary for me to collect this debt due to my already very advanced age, they explained to me that the situation of the Puigs had changed completely, being at this time the ninth declared fortune, only in Spain. Very deluded and innocently, I asked my son Josep-Lluis to go see Josep Mª Puig Planas or his nephew Marc Puig Guasch and ask them to repay my loan, since we understood that his financial situation had totally changed and for sure already they could return it without any effort or detriment on their part. He did so and specifically on July 2, 2014 he went to meet with Josep Mª Puig Planas at his central office in Exea on Av. Diagonal in Barcelona. After Josep Mª reminded him of several family aspects, my son demanded the repayment of my loan, which Josep Mª Puig logically did not deny and he specifically told him three times that it was difficult to calculate the amount of the loan in current money, he gave him many best regards to me and dismissed it as is. When my son explained to me what happened at his meeting, I told him to ask for another meeting with Josep Mª Puig Planas and that this time I would go personally to talk to him about my loan. He gave us the time for July 29 and what was our surprise that Josep Mª Puig did not show his face and did not appear, in his own office, at said meeting and instead he sent his two lawyers, Mr. Pedret and Mr. Blanco, who after extolling, precisely to me, the figure of the Puig family, asked us if we kept any receipt for my loan in question. My son and I looked at each other in astonishment at this situation. due to the ties that exist between us and we left the meeting totally surprised by the lack of gallantry and lack of honesty with which we found ourselves in those two meetings. We would never have imagined that after all the favors we had done to the Puig family in all these years, in addition to how they later enriched themselves at the expense of my family, as I will explain, the ninth fortune of Spain acted in this way, thanks in part precisely to my family and to help them when they needed it. But as they say, God squeezes but does not suffocate. Back home, we began to look for documentation of the debt, which we have continued to do to date, we have already found some document that I will show, and what was our surprise that numerous Invention Patents also began to appear in the name of my husband and my own that I did not remember and documentation of all kinds related to lighters manufactured by us. We immediately understood my husband's continued anger with the Puigs, since his Clipper lighter was a mere carbon copy of many of our Invention Patents.

                                        

                           Former head office of Antonio Puig S.A. Travessera de Gracia, Barcelona, sold                                                                           recently by 15 Millions Euros