The role of Christmas is to help. With this motto, the chain gives space to Jorge Consuegra, who has been making and selling filing cabinets for more than six decades.
Since 1959 it has been dedicated to making filing cabinets, these office supplies of paper and cardboard that over time have been replaced by pendrives, memory flash or other storage devices.
He is Jorge Consuegra, 83, better known as the “lord of the filing cabinets”, who with an old and worn bag, which he hangs on his shoulder, and his products in hand, has walked the streets of Guayaquil for more than six decades, although in recent years it has also reached the Entre Ríos sector, on Samborondón avenue, where it has been very well received and assured that its filing cabinets will never go out of style.
“More than for some personal receipts they require them, more than anything in this sector that is Entre Ríos, where wealthy people live and those who have their businesses both by inheritance and by acquisition of them, but they require the files and they are also files. reminders in which you can keep anything personal, ”explains Consuegra, who says that 25 years ago he created filing cabinets of different sizes, such as check-size, that did not exist in any stationery store in Guayaquil.
Between $ 20 and $ 100 they calculate entrepreneurs who are losing due to the fall of social networks, a tool where the majority of clients in Ecuador concentrate
Now, due to an unfortunate event, the “lord of the filing cabinets” takes the leap from the street to the hangers of Juan Marcet, a renowned chain specialized in stationery, school supplies, office and technology, where Consuegra now has a space where exhibit and sell their products.
In his social networks, the entrepreneur tells that a few weeks ago he suffered a significant economic loss and that in a confused family conflict he lost much of his merchandise and especially the contacts of his clients who were looking for him through an Instagram account that no longer drive.
Because of this, Juan Marcet gave him a place to sell his classic filing cabinets at the Riocentro Entre Ríos shopping center.
”This support and trust have been of great value to me. I will never tire of saying that good people exist, there are angels disguised as human beings who are there when you need them most ”, Consuegra mentions, and remembers that he bought materials from this company, since he was young, to make their accordion-type filing cabinets. .
At that time he went to the Río Guayas building, in Pichincha and Colón, where Juan Marcet was staying, to buy the filing cabinets that his clients asked for and it occurred to him to disassemble one and see the measures to start making his own.
Now your filing cabinets are on a hanger on this chain. Juan Marcet has reported that the 100% that is collected from the sales of those filing cabinets will all go to Consuegra.
Enrique León, Commercial and Marketing Manager of Juan Marcet, says that the company found out about Consuegra’s situation through the entrepreneur’s social networks, as he assures that he is well known in Samborondón.
“When we heard this news we were shocked, as surely as the vast majority of people who retweeted or shared in their Instagram stories and in their Facebook posts, many of them were outraged … We were not left in outrage but we wanted to See how I can help him, ”said León, who went to look for him in the area where he usually stands to sell his filing cabinets, behind the Village Plaza.
The File Seller
León highlights that Consuegra is not Juan Marcet’s first entrepreneurial supplier, since they have a business relationship with various artisans who started small and have progressed over the years until they are generators of jobs with small and medium-sized companies.
However, he assures that the support for Consuegra is not due to a commercial activity. “What we have done with Don Jorge was really wanting to give him a hand and support him because he moved us greatly and we could not understand that an adult and hard-working person is going through this situation,” says León, who calls for help to the entrepreneur .
In addition, different personalities have joined collaborating and echoing the initiative through the social networks of @jorgeconsuegra_archivadores, @juanmarcetec and the hashtag #ElPapelDeLaNavidad. (I)
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