• The government delegate in Cantabria has visited the facilities of the family business in Casar de Periedo.
The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has highlighted the plans of the food company La Ermita Cantabria to achieve energy autonomy.
Casares has visited the facilities of this family company located in the town of Casar de Periedo, in Cabezón de la Sal, and whose details about the origins and the particular production of its gourmet products have been explained to him by one of its founders, Cándido Salmón García de los Salmons.
The delegate has been able to know the plans for improvement of the factory, among which the implementation of projects to install solar panels and storage batteries, as well as a biomass boiler.
The idea of La Ermita is to try to achieve “energy autonomy” to avoid situations of risk of economic imbalance due to increases in energy products and raw materials as happened in 2022 after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, he explained.
Casares has also known at “first hand” the process of artisanal elaboration of La Ermita and which is based on the “excellent raw material they use”.
The founding brothers of this food company have thanked the government delegate in Cantabria for his visit, to which they have transferred their commitment to local employment and artisanal production.
The Ermita Cantabria began production in 2002 after in 1999 they decided to bet on the agri-food sector instead of focusing on the hotel sector, its first origins, and currently they have more than 70 employees of which 65% are women.
With a turnover of about 6.6 million per year, the strength of its production is in the manufacture of traditional product of high quality, with a high number of references and varieties, which exceed half a hundred of its brand La Ermita Cantabria.
In addition to sales on large stores, they have 11 direct sales outlets: five in Cantabria, three in Vizcaya, two in Madrid and one in Burgos.