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Venezuelan business woman
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Leonor Giménez de Mendoza
BornBarquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela
Occupation(s)Businesswoman, philanthropist

Leonor Giménez de Mendoza is a Venezuelan businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the president of Empresas Polar for five years and is president and founder of the Empresas Polar Foundation.

Biography

Leonor Giménez was born in Barquisimeto, Lara State. She was educated at the Colegio María Auxiliadora in the same city. She spent a year in Montreal to improve her English. In 1956, after the death of her father, she travelled to Madrid with her mother. There she met Lorenzo A. Mendoza Quintero. In 1959 they married in Caracas where they established their residence and had six children: Elisa, Leonor, Isabel, Lorenzo, Patricia and Juan Simon. In 1976, she joined her husband in the leadership of Empresas Polar. Together, in 1977, they created the Empresas Polar Foundation. Later, after her husband's death in 1987, she led the company for five years and was a member of its board of directors.

She was also president of the Asociación de Damas Salesianas and member of the board of directors of the Centro de Atención Nutricional Infantil Antímano (CANIA), a non-profit institution created by Cervecería Polar in 1995.

Awards and recognitions

References

  1. ^ Lavaud, María Elena (2016). TE CUENTO 75 años de Empresas Polar y su gente (PDF) (in Spanish). Biblioteca Fundación Empresas Polar. ISBN 978-980-379-370-8.
  2. ^ "Mendoza Quintero, Lorenzo Alejandro | Fundación Empresas Polar". bibliofep.fundacionempresaspolar.org (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  3. TalCual (2022-04-21). "Fundación Empresas Polar cumple 45 años de aporte a la cultura". TalCual (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  4. "Cania celebra 25 años de fundación". El Pitazo (in Spanish). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
  5. Ali. "Fundación Empresas Polar The Páez Medal of Arts 2021". VAEA. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  6. "Carolina Herrera asiste a una gala en Nueva York para celebrar la cultura y el arte". HOLA (in Spanish). 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
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