Jose & Rafael Benjumea

Rafael:

“What they say at the beginning – ‘we long term players’ – now I understand what it means.  Maybe, at the beginning [I thought it]  was one more saying, that they are here for the long term, but no, no.  They have shown me how they have adapt themselves to the market, to the evolution of the business plan, to the evolution of the opportunities.  So, I only have good words, of how these people have taken this company [FRV] to where it is now.  We did a lot at the beginning, [as founders of FRV in 2006] but the last 5 years [since acquisition by Abdul Latif Jameel in 2015] the company has grown a lot.”

Jose:

“We start to meet and really interact and we realized, these guys, they were Saudi [Arabian] and they were ‘car dealers’, but they were very international, and secondly, very open to new things and to interact with other international mentalities.  So, the mix of culture has been amazing!    Because, apart from being long-term players, [which] is very clear, the real belief in honesty . . .  these are the type of people who can mix honesty, being a long term player, with the way [in which] the economy moves, internationally.”