Carlos González-Artigas

Carlos González-Artigas Díaz (1947 - 4 April 2020) He received several offers to take over important companies when he was still very young, however he preferred to go his own way in the Oilseed industry.

Later, González-Artigas came to Montecristi, where he founded Grupo Industrial La Fabril, one of the largest industries in the production of oils and cleaning products in Ecuador, which employs approximately two thousand people in Manabí, of which it was its largest shareholder and González-Artigas was their CEO.

González-Artigas was director of Federación Ecuatoriana de Exportadores (Fedexpor).

Death He died at the age of 72, from a severe pneumonia allegedly caused by COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, during the coronavirus pandemic in Ecuador, on the afternoon of April 4, 2020, at the Kennedy clinic in Guayaquil, where up to that moment more than 2,400 infected people were registered in the city. His company was passed to his son Carlos González-Artigas Loor.