66 - Grupo Salinas
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66 - Grupo Salinas
1• issue August 2013 • Issue 66 • 66 Azteca Banco Azteca Celebrates Its Celebrates 19th Anniversary Five Years in Peru p.p.54 Azteca Azteca and Celebrates Its Grupo Elektra 19th Anniversary Present Sustainability Reports p.p.74 Azteca Prepares Premiere of La Academia Kids p. 8 Azteca Celebrates 20 Years On August 2, 1993, Ricardo Salinas Pliego led a group of investors to acquire a series of television stations from the Mexican government: Televisión Azteca was born. Thanks to all those who have been a part of the Azteca family Today, Azteca is proudly celebrating 20 years of success and expansion. It has transformed how television is made in Mexico, breaking a broadcasting monopoly, and revolutionizing production processes and relationships with viewers. As Ricardo Salinas cut the commemorative cake, he noted: “We’re going for more.” Azteca CEO Mario San Román added, “We showed people that we can not only make television, but good television; television with values.” (cont. p. 3) Letter to Our Readers This month we’re celebrating Azteca’s 20th anniversary. It’s easy to say, but the opportunities we have created are thanks to the tenacity and vision of our chairman, Ricardo Salinas, and the effort and talent of a great team of collaborators who make quality television day in and day out. We also detail the presentation of Azteca and Grupo Elektra’s sustainability reports, using an internationally renowned methodology; the documents reaffirm our companies’ social responsibility. Azteca is preparing the premiere of the new reality show La Academia Kids, in addition to other launches and an exciting boxing schedule for the fall. We also feature the call for entries for the ¡Que viva la Selva Lacandona! drawing contest, which promotes with children the preservation of this national reserve in Chiapas. Fundación Azteca activities transcend borders with great impact, as shown in the interview with Ricardo Salinas for the Pictet Report magazine. Finally, we honor the participants in the ALAS leadership training program who concluded their projects last month. As always, thank you for your interest in our activities. Enjoy this issue of Grupo Salinas Hoy. Luis J. Echarte Content •2 Ricardo Salinas Shares His Vision of Corporate Social Responsibility …………………………....... 4 Banco Azteca Celebrates Five Years in Peru ……………………………………………………………….. … 5 Solid Advance in Building Latin America’s Largest Fiber Optic Network …………………... ……. 6 Azteca and Grupo Elektra Present Sustainability Reports ……………………………………………... . 7 Azteca Prepares the Premiere of La Academia Kids ………………………………………………………. 8 Fundación Azteca Announces Tenth ¡Que viva la Selva Lacandona! Contest ………………... . 9 Italika Honors Its Pilots …………………………………………………………………………………………….. . 10 Advance America Employees Support Their Industry ……………………………………………………. 11 ALAS Leadership Program Presents Latest Class of Graduates……………………………………….. 12 Paving the Road for Ciudad de las Ideas 2013 ……….………………………………………………….. 13 Azteca 7 Announces Next “Dinamita” Márquez Fight ………………………………………………….. 14 Names and Faces: Román Gómez …………………………………………………………………................. 15 The Best of Ricardo B. Salinas’ Blog …………………………………………………………….................. 16 Contacts …………………………………………………………………………………………………….................... 16 (cont. from p. 1) Azteca Celebrates 20 Years Station employees also made a pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica. Two decades after beginning the adventure, Azteca’s influence transcends borders and reaches new media like Internet and mobile devices, with cutting-edge production and distribution of news, sports, and entertainment. Today more than ever, Azteca reiterates its commitment to our audiences, advertisers, and partners as we continue to position our company as a world-class television production company. 3• issue 66 •4 Entrevista de Pictet Report Ricardo Salinas Shares His Vision of Corporate Social Responsibility Ricardo Salinas was recently interviewed by the Pictet Report, sharing his vision of corporate social responsibility. In the interview, published in the June issue, Mr. Salinas said Grupo Salinas’ social initiatives began in the 1990s, setting a standard that is a model for many Mexican companies today. He also emphasized the important contributions that private industry has made to improve society. “Business foundations are more results-oriented, and governments should see this trend as positive.” To read the full interview, go to http://perspectives.pictet.com/2013/06/17/disruptive-technologies/ We Changed the Banking System in Latin America, Too Banco Azteca Celebrates Five Years in Peru Lío Messi in his Banco Azteca uniform Banco Azteca recently celebrated the fifth anniversary of its operations in Peru, where Grupo Elektra has had a presence since 1998. With the solid growth over its first five years in Peru, Banco Azteca is currently one of the top financial institutions in the country. As part of the activities, Banco Azteca sponsored a soccer match featuring Barcelona soccer stars Lionel Messi and Neymar. In attendance were customers, suppliers, and friends of Banco Azteca del Perú, as well as special guests from a local orphanage. The event supported Lionel Messi’s personal social action foundation. 5• issue 66 •6 In Colombia Solid Advance in the Construction of Latin America’s Largest Fiber Optic Network Azteca announced that it has installed 12,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable in Colombia. This is part of the telecommunications project that will include a 19,000-kilometer network throughout the country. This translates into 452 municipalities currently connected by the company out of a total goal of 753 when the project is finished. As we have reported before, in Colombia, Azteca is building Latin America’s largest fiber optic network, representing a significant increase in telecommunications infrastructure. According to Colombian government estimates, the number of municipalities with fiber optic coverage will increase from 27% to 96%, with the aim of boosting development. Azteca will market world-class connectivity services at accessible prices to large segments of the population, increasing productivity for families and businesses in the region. The commercialization of telecommunications services will also foster the diversification and strengthening of Azteca’s bottom line by adding their operations to its solid media business performance. Social Responsibility Azteca and Grupo Elektra Present Sustainability Reports Azteca and Grupo Elektra presented their first sustainability reports using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Guide methodology. More and more companies worldwide are sharing the social and environmental benefits of their operations. Azteca and Grupo Elektra are part of an elite group of companies that use this methodology to present socially responsible activities. Azteca and Grupo Elektra actively support the activities of Fundación Azteca. Each company also carries out its own initiatives individually in fields like energy and waste management, workplace environment, human rights, corporate governance, anti-corruption practices, and management of dishonesty, among many others. To consult the reports and learn more about Azteca and Grupo Elektra’s sustainable activities, visit https://www.irtvazteca.com/downloads/ responsabilidad.aspx https://www.grupoelektra.com.mx/ Downloads/ResponsSoc.aspx?lang=es What is GRI? GRI is an international organization that fosters sustainability reports using indicators to measure and present socially responsible corporations’ economic, environmental, and social performance. A sustainability report is a key platform for communicating qualitative and quantitative results and positive impacts of strategies, campaigns, activities, and initiatives that socially and environmentally responsible corporations organize in their communities. 7• issue 66 •8 Music Gets Reinvented Azteca Prepares Premiere of La Academia Kids Azteca is finalizing the details for its premiere of La Academia Kids, a musical reality show for youth who seek future stardom. Casting began in July to select the 32 hopefuls who will participate in the first show at the end of August. From there, 18 finalists will be picked to continue on the musical talent show. La Academia talent scouts have scoured Mexico, Guatemala and the United States, looking for boys and girls between the ages of five and 14. They have also done online casting calls. Ingrid Coronado and Mauricio Barcelata will host the show, with a judging panel made up of top names in the music business. Promoting Conservation Fundación Azteca Calls for Entries for the 10th ¡Que viva la Selva Lacandona! Contest Fundación Azteca has called for entries for the 10th ¡Que viva la Selva Lacandona! drawing contest. This Grupo Salinas initiative promotes awareness, particularly among children, about the national and international importance of the Lacandon Jungle. The competition invites youth from all over Mexico to express ideas about this important ecosystem in the state of Chiapas. It disseminates information about its flora and fauna, the benefits it offers humanity, and the care and conservation efforts in the Montes Azules Biosphere Preserve. The jury selects a winning drawing from each state of Mexico and Mexico City. The prize is an all-expenses-paid six-day trip to the Lacandon Jungle, during which the prizewinners will have exciting adventures and get to know the ecosystem to, in turn, become promoters of its conservation. For more details about the contest, visit www.fundacionazteca.org/selvalacandona 9• issue 66 •10 Outstanding Employees Italika Honors Its Pilots Italika has assembled more than 2,000 motorcycles in a single day Italika’s pilots assemble motorcycles on the production line Mexico’s leading motorcycle brand, Italika, part of Grupo Elektra, honored top employees at its assembly plant, Ensamblika. The company awarded motorcycles and certificates to 242 employees of excellence, called “pilots,” whose dedication has made it possible for Italika to continue growing. This annual awards ceremony was held in the plant itself, located in Toluca, State of Mexico. In 2012, 120 employees received similar recognition. Of those, 87% continue working at the plant. Promoting the Importance of Credit Advance America Employees Support Their Industry 11 issue 66 Each year as state legislatures around the United States debate changes to the laws that govern the payday lending industry, employees of Advance America step in to make sure lawmakers understand the importance of short-term credit in our customers’ lives. In addition to the company’s outstanding government affairs specialists, staff from Advance America centers across the country step forward to show their support of the payday loan industry time and again. These dedicated employees write to their representatives, attend and testify at legislative hearings, send letters to the editors of their local newspapers, and connect lawmakers with satisfied customers. Dawn Swensen, vice president for external affairs, coordinates these efforts with the help of Advance America’s government and external affairs teams. “We could not be as effective in protecting our business without the involvement of employees from our centers who do such a terrific job sharing their personal experiences and telling the story of the customers they work with every day,” said Swensen. “They add a crucial, grassroots voice that would otherwise be missing from the legislative process.” Recently, more than 50 Advance America employees and customers attended a meeting of the Consumer Advisory Board for the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency that regulates payday lending. Wearing stickers that read “My Credit, My Decision,” supporters packed the meeting room and spoke about the value of cash advances to the customers and communities we serve. Advance America employees met with US legislators Through their hard work, our employees help to challenge preconceptions of short-term lending, and to educate policymakers, journalists and the public about the important role that companies like Advance America play in the consumer financial services marketplace. Download your app for Ricardo Salinas’ blog now •12 Developing the Future Leaders of Grupo Salinas ALAS Leadership Program Presents Latest Class of Graduates Graduation was held in June for the third generation of participants in the Aprendizaje Avanzado para Líderes a través de la Acción Sistemática (Advance Leadership Learning through Systematic Action) (ALAS). The program is supervised directly by Ricardo Salinas and organized by the Centro de Liderazgo de Grupo Salinas (Grupo Salinas Leadership Center), headed by Lucila Galán, and advised by Noel Tichy, a consultant and professor at the University of Michigan Business School. Twenty-six participants, organized into five teams, graduated. Of those, four teams focused on seeking in- novative solutions to challenges in Grupo Elektra’s operations, while the fifth researched proposals for Azteca. ALAS trains leaders in four primary areas: 1) the philosophy of Grupo Salinas; 2) leading people; 3) leading business; and 4) leading social action. The aim is to detect the talent that will eventually head our companies’ expanding activities. and evaluating them. In addition, each participant becomes involved in social actions, supporting a not-for-profit institution so it can be more efficient. The programs focus on i) diagnosing areas of opportunity in real situations in company operations; ii) developing a comparative analysis of other worldclass companies; iii) proposing improvement plans; and iv) implementing The teams are guided by outstanding Grupo Salinas senior executives, and Ricardo Salinas monitors the advances of each team. During the entire process, participants are supported by the Centro de Liderazgo and Professor Tichy. All this takes place at the same time that the executives are doing their normal jobs, which means increasing their activities by 30% to 50% for about six months. Ricardo Salinas with third generation graduates and the executives who supported them 13 issue 66 Festival of Brilliant Minds Paving the Road for Ciudad de las Ideas 2013 Ciudad de las Ideas, the festival of brilliant minds, is a celebration of creativity and curiosity. The event has been held every year since 2008 through Poder Cívico, curated by Andrés Roemer. Year after year, Roemer brings together cutting-edge thinkers from around the world to share ideas. This year’s theme is “Dangerous Ideas,” a tribute to the thinking that changes paradigms, breaks with the status quo, and turns rebels into great nonconformist minds. The countdown has already begun for this year’s event, slated for November 7-9 in the city of Puebla. Some of the committed speakers to date are: Eric Whitacre, music composer; Alondra de la Parra, orchestra director; Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, neurosurgeon specializing in stem-cell development; Elisa Carrillo Cabrera, classical and contemporary dancer; Elsa Punset, philosopher and researcher in the field of emotional intelligence; and Daniel Libeskind, architect and designer. “Breaking with schema and not believing everything we traditionally think is a fundamental premise for those of us who attend this forum.” Ricardo Salinas Pliego www.ricardosalinas.com/blog Some of the outstanding participants •14 Welterweight World Championship Azteca 7 Announces Next “Dinamita” Márquez Fight Once again, Azteca 7, “The Home of Boxing,” will broadcast a top boxing event. On October 12, Juan Manuel Márquez will face Timothy Bradley at Las Vegas’s Thomas and Mack Center. Azteca 7 will cover this fight between two of the boxers who have defeated Manny Pacquiao. The transmission will feature top commentators and the in-depth analysis of Box Azteca, which has become a reference point for the resurgence of the sport in Mexico. Juan Manuel Márquez aims to be the first Mexican to win the title in five different divisions. But to do that, he will have to beat Bradley, who seeks world recognition as one of today’s best boxers. Names and Faces Román Gómez Adjunct Director for Engineering and Development at Azteca It was more than 25 years ago when Román Gómez began to operate Elektra Telecomunicaciones, a company owned by Ricardo Salinas that sold and serviced parabolic antennas and multi-line switchboard consoles. “When I came on board, they already had lots of customers, but there were problems with proper installation and post-sale service,” he says. After increasing the product line and incorporating servicing standards and a specialized sales force, Román turned his hand to developing a technical proposal for cellular telephony licenses. Even though they didn’t get the licenses, they did get permits for trunking frequencies, the basis for what is now Nextel, and other radio locators, which gave rise to Biper, Mexico’s best-selling radio-localization service in the early 1990s. After the successful bidding for what was to become TV Azteca, Román received responsibility for the Engineering Department of the previously government-owned television station, which had 72 transmitters with obsolete technology. The first challenge was to improve TV Azteca’s signal for the 1994 World Soccer Cup. He achieved his goal and rapidly increased coverage from 1993 to 1996, until it exceeded international standards. From there, he continued improving the equipment in the Azteca Digital studios, and later the news studios and local stations, with cutting-edge technology. One of the projects he has carried out has been to reequip the studios for HD production. Román is particularly proud when he says that the fiber-optic-connection infrastructure between the control centers and master transmitters makes it possible to emit better signals than current HD standards require. With the years, he says, he has learned that “everything can be done. No matter how unusual or strange the request, it can be built.” 15 issue 66 •16 The Best of Ricardo Salinas’ Blog Plantel Azteca, an Excellent Investment Plantel Azteca is the embodiment of our social commitment focused on quality education for young people from low-income families. Through this Fundación Azteca initiative, we have proven that investment in education can yield very tangible results without wasting resources. Many top-ranking universities –such as the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), the Tec de Monterrey, the Universidad Panamericana, and the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE)– have created 65 special scholarship funds for Plantel Azteca graduates, which represents the confidence in our student body. Plantel Azteca students know perfectly well the difference between going to school and getting a real education. Starting Over, a Way of Life Contacts This book by Grupo Salinas executive Luis J. Echarte shares his personal experiences and his vision of the world of business as a global executive who is not afraid of transformation. Luis is convinced that the only constant in our world is change, especially in business. With this in mind, he says that to succeed we have to accept this and rapidly adapt to new circumstances. We need the capacity to continually reinvent ourselves. He also shares his career as a Grupo Salinas executive and the work he did before, first in construction and later as the head of Bacardí, which he transformed into a global brand. Investor Relations, Grupo Salinas Bruno Rangel • (5255) 1720-9167• [email protected] Public Relations, Grupo Salinas USA Nathalie Rayes • (818) 683-4178 • [email protected] Press Relations, Grupo Salinas Daniel McCosh • (5255) 1720-0059 • [email protected] Information GS Hoy Elena Arceo • (5255) 1720-0060 • [email protected] Editorial Committee Daniel McCosh • Bruno Rangel • Elena Arceo • Arturo Longares • Linda Garcidueñas • Alejandro Vázquez • Carlos Casillas • Jesús Velázquez • Rolando Villarreal
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