To date, under Ángel Minaya's visionary leadership, the group has multiplied its business figure sevenfold in five years, reaching €14.9 million in 2022. Various investment projects are underway to enhance growth capacity, all rooted in the pursuit of excellence permeating the company's services, processes, and final products. Ultimately, it represents a unique entrepreneurial model emerging from Villanueva de la Jara, Cuenca—a town in depopulated Spain where Agróptimum generates 150 direct job opportunities, acting as agents of social change in the rural Spanish environment.
Given the outstanding conditions in the Iberian Peninsula, the pistachio's privileged position could make it a key product in Spanish exports. The upward trend is already evident; global consumption increased by 30% in 2021/2022. With time and investment in research and development, it may be possible to develop a unique variety of pistachio better adapted, with unique characteristics that could make it a symbol of our agriculture and, by extension, a symbol of our gastronomic culture, similar to what traditionally olives and vines have been.
