INVITED EDITOR
The choices of
Pedro Soares dos Santos
President of Jerónimo Martins
EDITORIAL
Most companies raise salaries below inflation
President of Jerónimo Martins, owner of the Pingo Doce chain, says he is "afraid of what is happening in Portugal". "The country is not growing and has been slowly going backwards," says Pedro Soares dos Santos. The manager says, in an interview with the Expresso newspaper, that "we like to blame the war, but it has only accelerated everything." The leader of the group, which also has operations in Poland and Colombia, points out that "Portugal is the country where we do the most promotions," a "model [that] has enormous weight because people have difficulties on a daily basis.
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