Today, Cupa Group has announced a series of key changes to its management team aimed at promoting its strategy of transformation and growth. The reorganisation includes the appointment of Eduardo Mera, until now senior executive officer in the slate business area, to the newly created position of general manager of Cupa Group, and Fernando Bandrés and Francisco Lorenzo as managers of Cupa Pizarras and Cupa Stone respectively.
As from today, Eduardo Mera takes over management of the company’s businesses formed by Cupa Pizarras, Cupa Stone, Burton Roofing, Vermont Slate and Thermochip, to improve the synergies between the different operational areas. His period at Cupa Group began in the year 2000 as financial director of Ramilo. After heading the granite company, in 2007 he became manager of Cupa Stone, the group’s natural stone division. In 2012, he was appointed general manger of Cupa Pizarras and played a fundamental role in consolidating its worldwide leading position, expanding the market and modernising processes at the subsidiary, which currently has over 1,800 employees in Galicia and Castilla y León.
Fernando Bandrés has taken over as senior executive at Cupa Pizarras. Bandrés joined the group in 2015 as legal director, and was a key figure in planning the acquisition of Pizarras Gallegas, Proinor, Lomba and Rinus Roofing between 2020 and 2021. In 2022, he moved into management, taking on the position of general manager of Cupa Stone. He automated its granite factory in Vigo, increased its distribution network by opening new warehouses in Spain and France and strengthened the positioning of its brands in the interior design sector.
In the natural stone business area, he is replaced by Francisco Lorenzo, general manager of Ramilo, where he had already previously held the position of sales manager. Under his management the Vigo granite company has expanded its sales in international markets like the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. He is now the senior executive officer of an area which also operates through quarries in Spain, France, Portugal and Brazil, factories in Spain, Portugal and Brazil and over thirty distribution centres in Spain, France and Portugal.
The renewed configuration of the executive committee completes the creation of a new corporate ESG management attached to Cupa Group’s CFO, Antonio Trincado. It will be managed by Belén Díaz, who is in charge of executing the strategy to achieve the group’s environmental, social and governance objectives which she already started to do in 2018 as manager of the integrated quality and environment management system of Cupa Pizarras.
Javier Fernández, CEO of Cupa Group, explains that these appointments “reinforce the management team to begin a process of carefully designed transformation which, I am sure, will give a great boost to the execution of our strategy. And also, we couldn’t be more proud of tackling the great challenges before us by promoting the in-house talent of four people who have shown themselves to be great leaders in their respective areas and have enabled the extraordinary growth we have experienced in recent years”.
