Several events around the Companies Polar were provoked in the beginning of the week. A protest of workers in support to the most important distributor of the country was registered in Lara, whereas in it soothes of Carabobo executed an inspection on the part of the Indepabis and the SADA. The company issued an official notice in which it rejects the monopolizing accusations “then never we have acted of that form during our 50 years of history” and indicates his disposition to continue investing in the country.

Caracas. - The workers of the Polar group of Companies, food the manufacturing major of the country, decided to declare themselves in “alert” and in “permanent assembly” after the announcement of president Hugo Chavez of which he is arranged to go by the corporation if he persists in supposed product monopolizing, union leaders informed this Monday.

“We are combat ready… we reached an agreement all the workers, with employees, of which we are going away to maintain firm in the fight, we are going to be here, we are going to defend our jobs in all the country”, he affirmed Dark Richard, president of the union of workers of Polar Brewery, filial company of the group.

Dark he said to the AP that the workers of the Polestar realised this Monday assemblies in all the branchs of the group to define the actions before the warning that Chávez realised in the eve.

The union leader indicated that the employees decided to realise daily assemblies and to stay in “permanent watch” in the facilities that the group in the central city of Barquisimeto has before the risk that takes shape the expropriation of warehouses of the company that decided Chávez recently.

“We are going to defend our positions of use thus is with the life”, said Jhony Magdaleno, labor leader of the group in the state coastal center of Carabobo, when questioning an inspection that the National Guard to warehouses of the Polestar realised yesterday in that organization.

“There is no monopolizing. They are attacking against Companies Polar to try to cover the inefficiency of this government”, indicated Magdaleno to the channel of the Globovisión news.

“If they continue monopolizing will be necessary to go by the Polestar, but we are not going to allow to him which comes here to chantajear to us”, it said to Chávez during its dominical program when defending the seizure of 120 tons of products of the Polestar that realised the past week the National Guard.

The agent chief executive demanded to the General Office of the public prosecutor abrir a procedure against the Polestar by signallings of supposed product monopolizing.

Inspected inventories
In the last weeks problems of shortage of some foods like the sugar have appeared, the maize flour, the meat and butter. The analysts maintain that the cases of shortage of supplies are consequence of the effective control of prices from the 2003.

The corporation denied the past week that is storing products of irregular way, and maintained that their inventories permanently are inspected by the authorities.

The estadal coordinator of the Indepabis, Carlos Diaz, after an inspection in the plant of the Polar Company in east Carabobo Monday, determined that there were imbalances in the food distribution. In as much, they realise a plan supervised by the organism that it will look for to improve the distribution of products.

Expropriation in Lara
Chávez decreed to the past month the unavoidable acquisition of five lots of lands that Polestar in industrial zone 1 of Barquisimeto has, where deposits and offices of the group work.

Governor took measurement as soon as Polar went to Court Supreme of Justice to ask invalidity of expropriation of his lands that decreed in March a pro-government mayoress of Barquisimeto, that justified the action alleging that the property, that works in an industrial zone, would be used to raise houses.

Companies Polar generate about 32,000 uses direct and 180,000 indirect ones, and own 17 centers of production in Venezuela and three in Colombia. The group makes cereals, margarines, sauces, cheeses, vinegars, canning, gaseous drinks, ice creams, congealed products of sea, jams, foods for animal, beer and wines. (AP)

Polestar rejects monopolizing accusation

Foods Polar denied in an official notice the accusations that they attribute to him from the Executive to be monopolizing and speculating with the products that produce in the different plants from the country.

“In Foods Polar we categorically rejected the unfounded accusations of monopolizing and speculation, because we have never acted of that form during our 50 years of history and we will never do it, since our reason of being is to produce foods with quality to satisfy to clients and consumers”.

They assure that the accusations have caused great surprise because “it is impossible that there is monopolizing, because each kilo of each product that we elaborated is supervised strictly by the organisms of the State, throughout all the process of production and distribution”.

“We are it jeopardize to continue working and investing in Venezuela. For that reason, our plan of investments for the food area, that is executing this year, reaches the number of 405 million strong bolivars”, indicated the company, that it needed that in the last three years, have been entered more than 600 inspection, far beyond bases the one of any other company of the food sector in the country.