Last 29th
February the Teatro Principal de Palma hosted the institutional act to
commemorate the Day of the Balearic Islands.
In business
field, the Ramon Llull Award honors posthumously Mr Bernardo Pons Casals.
From young
age, he began working in the family business, Metalurgia Pons, which was
initially a jewelry enterprise. It was however with the First World War that
the company was reconfigured into a hinge factory, exporting nowadays its
products to more than 40 countries all over the world.
As per the
Government, "Bernardo Pons Casals transferred to the current managers, his
sons Isabel and Bernardo, the passion and the philosophy with which the company
continues being one of the most firm values within Menorca and the Balearic
Islands”.