Pedro Haces, known as Don Bull, and Pedro Tamayo are the new partners of Simón Casas. This has been confirmed by the English producer himself to ABC: "Both, along with me, have repurchased the part that Antonio Catalán bought me, who no longer had the motivation to be [as a result of his son leaving bullfighting] and whose porch was of 35 per cent. We asked why exactly Simón Casas has shares today within the Simón Casas Apoderamiento Holding, which is its legal name. He answers bluntly: "I have 72.5 percent, I am the majority shareholder." -Some languages say that he is ruined. -That is absolutely false. His defamations that have been fed by malicious people. The situation of my company is very healthy, otherwise it would not have won, for example, the contests won in the last three years. Business success breeds envy. And envy created bad faith. It is part of human nature that there are people who seek to destroy the indestructible. Logically I can have the problems of any company, but if I were bankrupt, how could I have spent more than forty years in the sector? I have no problems with the Treasury or with Social Security or at an institutional level. I'm a motherfucker. My group has proven solvency. Work and prosperous. We are number 1 in the production of bullfighting in terms of business volume, with the highest category. And now I have Pedro Haces and Pedro Tamayo, two heavyweights when it comes to management and economic solvency. Simón Casas underlines the importance of this agreement that unites Mexico, France and Spain. “Both have a serious profile, which they contribute with their business experience. In the case of Pedro Haces, he is a man of great power, with great influence, a very important personality in the sociopolitical sphere. It is essential to join forces in the face of the disrupted future of bullfighting, with attacks both in Mexico and in other parts of the world. The restructuring of my group has a high priority, which is to think about the protection of the Fiesta”. And he argued: “The ban on Catalonia, Quito closed, Colombia with a new president who wants to ban, France with a bill to ban the Fiesta… The radical left is not going to stop attacking. Unity is fundamental, with a very strong group”. The English producer gives an account of his career, from his “42 years in Nimes with five different governments” to Las Ventas: “Simon Casas Production, through a joint venture, is associated only with Nautalia. With Rafael García Garrido I get along like a motherfucker; we are partners and friends. We are complementary and we are the best in bullfighting in terms of business production. Passion, experience and strength”. And he emphasizes: “The Madrid management contract belongs to Plaza 1, which is a joint venture with only two partners, Nautalia and Simon Casas Production [a company of which Simon Casas Apoderamiento, who is from Spain, has 99%], and then each company is free to have its own shareholders and its own partners”. -How has the balance of the Autumn Fair been economically? -Positive, economical and artistic. We have promoted October 12 and we have increased the number of subscribers. Our goal is to reach 18 thousand. From the beginning of the season until we closed it, we have created great posters. As for seizures, as long as he continues with Léa Vicens, Ángel Téllez, Juan Ortega (with Roberto Piles) and Juan Leal, whose team is joined by Manuel Amador. “Due to the breadth of my bullfighting activities, try to have collaborators and partners in each part of my sector; one has to nurture people with team vision and work capacity”. -Why did you sell your experience to the current Zaragoza company? -I did not sell anything, he left it amicably to Carlos Zúñiga father, because the dream of this man would be to be a businessman from Zaragoza. In that statement there was a stupidity by which a third party could be seen from the experience of another. They have offered me money, but I have not sold it. I've given it to whoever I wanted. And I clarify that I have nothing to do with the management of the square. Absolutely nothing. Simon seems to slip what they said, what they say or what they will say. “The damage of the envious and malicious do it to themselves. I have been successful almost since I was born.
