ALSA, awarded European Sport and Healthy Company prize

Brussels, December 13, 2019. ALSA, Volkswagen, and COFARES were honored last Thursday, December 12th, at the European Parliament in Brussels with the European & American Sport and Healthy Company Award.

Juan Antonio Esteban, Director of Human Resources (3rd from left), and Fernando Oliver (1st from left), Director of Occupational Risk Prevention, were in charge of receiving the award.

DCH and Aces Europe presented the European Sport and Healthy Company Award and the American Sport & Healthy Company Award yesterday at the European Parliament in Brussels, coinciding this award with the presentation of the awards for European Capital, City, Community and Villa of Sport.

The objective of this Award is to certify the effort of those companies that promote sport and health among their employees, valuing having a clear commitment to psychosocial health, physical activity and the general health of employees, having their own sports facilities or in collaboration with third parties and specific action programs for workers in the field of Health and Sport and having a physical headquarters in at least one member country of the European Continent.

The winners this year have been ALSA, recognized with the European Sport and Healthy Company Award and Volkswagen Mexico with the American Sport and Healthy Company Award. Likewise, COFARES three years later, returns to the European Parliament to validate the recognition that was granted as European Company of Health and Sport in 2017. Giving it "GOLD" for the improvements made over these three years.

All of them delivered by Gian Francesco Lupattelli, President of ACES Europe and Juan Carlos Pérez Espinosa, President of DCH.

ALSA awarded with the European Sport and Healthy Company Award

On behalf of ALSA, Juan Antonio Esteban, HR Director and Oliver Alejo, Head of Occupational Risk Prevention, collected the award, who highlighted the importance of their "For your health" wellness program.

Juan Antonio Esteban states that "for ALSA it is an honor and a great source of pride to have been awarded. We believe that it values ​​our permanent efforts in our commitment to the Health and Well-being of our employees. Under the "For your Health" program, we prioritize improving the physical and psychological conditions of our employees, as a reflection of our commitment to them, our clients and the communities in which we operate."

Volkswagen Mexico awarded with the American Sport and Healthy Company Award

On behalf of Volskwagen Mexico, Maria Luisa Cruz Cassou, Project Leader of Integral Welfare and Emma María Yunes Viveros, Director of Integral Welfare, collected the award.

"As Volkswagen de México we are proud of this recognition that makes us "name of the organization that decorates us", it is an important way to value the commitment and the work that we do every day for our collaborators and the seed that we sow to leave this world better than we found it."

"We remain committed to all the programs and initiatives that we have implemented as well as with the BIO Indicator that helps us to comprehensively measure the Well-being of our company, we will continue innovating for the coming year to see each other again." Emma María Yunes expresses.

COFARES obtains "GOLD" with the European Sport and Healthy Company Award

On behalf of Cofares, Eduardo Pastor, President, Ángel Javier Vicente Pérez, Transformation, Organization & People Director and José Luis Sanz Otero, General Director, collected the award. Javier Vicente pointed out "Cofares, which began its journey with 100 partners and today has more than 11,100 associated pharmacies, with 2,700 employees, celebrates its 75th Anniversary this year 2019, reinforcing its leading position as the first pharmaceutical distributor in our country and fourth in Europe. For some years now, we have developed programs such as: quitting smoking, installing cardiac rescue columns, promoting good practices in nutrition and healthy lifestyle habits, both inside and outside of work, or the organization of sports leagues for employees, with the objective of promoting physical activities, such as basketball, Pilates, running, mountain biking, soccer, etc. This allowed us to be recognized by the European Sport & Health Award in 2017, with the conviction and commitment of senior management to continuous improvement during the following years.

Our human capital is "the main asset of our leadership", therefore, we are committed and obliged to offer and promote all possible tools to ensure the well-being of our teams. For this reason, this year we have passed the 3-year audit, and we have been recognized with the Gold award for the development of these policies. And what better time, our anniversary, for our president Eduardo Pastor, in the European Parliament, to receive this award on behalf of Cofares, which recognizes that our company as a health company continues to Distribute Health."

Málaga 2020

Next year the International Meeting will take place in Malaga, chosen as the European Capital of Sport 2020 by Aces Europe, a Gala that will bring together all the award-winning companies to date and companies committed to the health and sport of their employees, with the aim of sharing good practices in this area.

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