The president of Quesería Menorquina, Paco Tutzó Bennásar (Maó, 1940), is the living witness and driving force behind the legacy left by the founder, Pedro Montañés, at the old El Caserío cheese factory in Menorca. Gold Medal of the Autonomous Community and one of the fathers of the Statute, he can finally breathe easy. After two decades of initiatives and business alliances, he has managed to guarantee the future, in the medium and long term, of the historic curd and processed cheese factory in Maó. The former president of the Consell de Menorca, who saved the company after Kraft's departure and survived the passage of Ruiz Mateos' Rumasa through the island, has found in the new Balearic investors who have relaunched the factory the necessary guarantee to continue the production started almost a century ago. A success worthy of the Economic Initiative award granted by ARA Balears. "It is a distinction that I deeply appreciate," he says. "ARA Balears has shown itself to be sensitive to the efforts of people who fight so that the productive fabric of a territory, in this case an island, does not disappear."

Margot Sastre, president of the works council, has been working at the former El Caserío plant for 45 years. Nearing retirement, she has experienced all the stages and properties since she joined the company in 1980: the Industrial Quesera Menorquina, owned by the Montañés family; its purchase by Kraft in 1992; the multinational's decision to close the factory in 2008; the workers' struggle to find and prevent a buyer; the entry of Rumasa in 2009; the bankruptcy proceedings; and the labor partnership with the management team that shaped Quesería Menorquina and guaranteed its continuity.

Quesería Menorquina, formerly known as El Caserío, is gradually returning to its roots after leaving behind the critical situation, on the brink of closure, first caused by the departure of Kraft in 2008, and then by the management of the Ruiz Mateos family. For ten years, between 2011 and 2021, the labor company created by the workers and the management team has allowed the Mahón plant to be sustained, but without escaping bankruptcy proceedings, until the influx of capital and new investors finally allowed it to turn the situation around.