Pedro Ferrer, Vice President and CoCEO of the Freixenet Group, appointed new president of the Spanish Wine Federation (FEV).

The Spanish Wine Federation has held this April 10 in Madrid its General Assembly, which has elected Pedro Ferrer, Vice President and CoCEO of Freixenet Group, as the new resident of the organization in replacement of Emilio Restoy (Bodegas Ramón Bilbao), which ends its mandate started in 2020 and becomes second vice president of the FEV. For his part, Juan Tirado, president of Bodegas Habla, has been appointed first vice president of the winery employers.

The General Assembly has approved the single candidacy of the FEV’s Executive Committee for the next three years, according to the model of membership and representativeness approved by the organization in 2020. The FEV’s highest decision-making body, headed by Pedro Ferrer as president, will once again be made up of 27 members, a third of whom have been renewed with the incorporation of new wineries and individuals.

During his first speech as president of the FEV at the closing of the Assembly, Ferrer has highlighted that wine is part of the social and cultural identity of our country and, most importantly, it is the way of life of many areas of the so-called rural Spain that, without the wine activity, would be condemned to abandonment and desertification.

On the other hand, Ferrer has defended the importance of being ambitious at the community level in health, climate, environmental and sustainability policies in general. “We believe that the time has come for Brussels to listen more and with greater sensitivity to the countries and sectors when legislating and it is essential that both in Spain and in Europe agriculture is once again a strategic policy and that our representatives in Europe defend it in this way,” said Ferrer, also stressing that the next EU legislature will be key in relation to many issues that will mark the future of the wine sector.

Pedro Ferrer has been CEO of Freixenet since 1998 and Vice Chairman since 2019. He is part of the third generation of the family that founded Cavas Freixenet and led it to world leadership in quality sparkling wines. Born in 1958 in Barcelona, he is a lover of nature and agriculture and has spent a lifetime linked to the world of wine.