Issue 97 of the magazine Actualidad de Empresas Aragonesas published an interview with Mingta’s Country Manager, Fernando Cimorra.
¿Quién es Fernando Cimorra?
He is a young Aragonese entrepreneur of 38 years who in February 2014 after an intense professional experience in several companies in the private sector in Aragon, decided to bet on his own project, MingTa. With an academic background in business administration and management, computer science and international trade, I consider myself a person in constant evolution with principles, tenacious, perfectionist, demanding, and with a great confessable vice, workaholic.
¿Tuviste claro desde tus inicios como estudiante que querías estudiar Comercio Internacional o hubo una evolución?
There was a clear evolution since my beginnings had nothing to do with the international sector. It has always been a disturbing subject for me since I am one of those who think that we live in a globalized world where we set our own borders. Outside our environment, outside our comfort zone, there is a world full of opportunities, challenges and why not a world of business. I have always been interested in constant training and professional recycling, and there was a moment in my life when it was clear to me that it was time to complete my training with a Master’s Degree in International Trade. It was undoubtedly one of the best decisions I have made in my life since it not only complemented my education but also meant that I was able to start my own project and take an important leap in my professional career.
¿Qué significa para ti MingTa?
It is the project that for the last three years has occupied my present and projected my future. It is a project that would not make sense without my partner Daniel Torres Julián, founder and General Manager of MingTa.
MingTa is a clear example of the company of the future, an outsourcing company, as it is designed to provide professional solutions to the client in China at an infinitely lower cost than it would cost to maintain its own structure, and with a multidisciplinary team of professionals at its disposal specialized in different areas. Global and specialized service with a fixed and affordable cost.
¿Cuál es el valor añadido de MingTa?
For me MingTa has three clear competitive advantages;
- The initial business idea that still remains: MingTa was born as an outsourcing services company specialized in promoting and facilitating business relations between companies in the West and China, and vice versa.
- Being based in China, and having its own structure. MingTa currently has three offices operating internationally, two in Asia and one in Europe, Spain. The offices in Asia are located in strategic points of the country to facilitate the daily operations of our customers. We have an office in Hong Kong as it is the financial and operational center of China. Hong Kong somehow connects the Asian giant with the West. Our operational headquarters is located in one of the most modern cities in Asia, Shenzhen, a clear example of the modernization and projection of this country abroad.
- The team of professionals that make up MingTa. Young people with many concerns, eager to learn, to grow, to live new experiences and to face new challenges. Highly qualified personnel specialized in different sectors. Multidisciplinary and totally international team as we are fortunate to have in our team staff from different nationalities such as France, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Italy, Spain and China. Our average age does not exceed 32 years.
¿Qué sentiste al enterarte de que había sido galardonada con el ‘Best Offshore Purchasing Company-China 2017?
It was a moment of shock and at the same time of enormous joy, I could not believe it. To this day I still have not fully assimilated it, I suppose that with time we will realize the great importance of this award. Not even in our best dreams could we have thought that we could obtain this international recognition and even less in such a short period of time, barely five years.
¿Qué hay detrás de ese premio?
Work, effort, tenacity, service, structure, team, professionals, people.
The enormous effort of a multidisciplinary team of more than 15 professionals that make up MingTa Group at international level.
¿Cuál es el siguiente objetivo?
Our next objective is to have an operational office in Central America to finish consolidating the different business channels that we have been working on for the last year and a half. The main objective is for MingTa to have its own offices in America, Europe and Asia in order to be able to offer a global service to our clients in the three continents.
¿Qué debe tener una empresa que busque exportar o importar a China?
Decision and commitment on the part of management, a clear business plan that sets out short, medium and long-term objectives, and financial capacity. Internalization is not an easy task and we always recommend that it is done by professionals specialized in the sector, in this way it will not be an expense but it will become an investment that will surely save you a lot of time and money.
¿Cómo ve Mingta dentro de 10 años?
I see MingTa as a company with a structure in the three continents (America, Europe and Asia) providing service to its clients and championing that initial business idea of being an outsourcing company specialized in favoring and facilitating commercial relations between companies in the West and China and vice versa. We would like to be an international reference company in our sector.
