Businessman. Vicente Ferrara Ferrigno arrived in America at the age of eleven on a boat, bound for Matamoros, to meet with his father Antonio. He grew up with the entrepreneurial spirit of his family and focused on activities such as agriculture and mining. He married Aurelia Verduzco Salinas in Cuatro Ciénegas. Coahuila. By 1880 he was already settling in Monterrey, since Governor Bernardo Reyes supported the industrialists, so he proposed to found a series of companies that would be very important for the development of Monterrey as an industrial emporium. He participated in 1892, in the founding of the Banco de Nuevo León, and in 1897 of the Banco Mercantil de Monterrey. His significance as a businessman is achieved by being a co-founder in 1900 of the Compañía Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey (Iron and Steel Smelter Company of Monterrey). He also founded a cement factory that he sold to the Zambrano family, the predecessor of Cementos Hidalgo. Other companies in which he participated were Fundición No. 3, Peñoles, La Industrial glass factory, Vidriería S.A., Cigarrera and Molinos de Aceite Monterrey S.A.
Businessman. Vicente Ferrara Ferrigno arrived in America at the age of eleven on a boat, bound for Matamoros, to meet with his father Antonio. He grew up with the entrepreneurial spirit of his family and focused on activities such as agriculture and mining. He married Aurelia Verduzco Salinas in Cuatro Ciénegas. Coahuila. By 1880 he was already settling in Monterrey, since Governor Bernardo Reyes supported the industrialists, so he proposed to found a series of companies that would be very important for the development of Monterrey as an industrial emporium. He participated in 1892, in the founding of the Banco de Nuevo León, and in 1897 of the Banco Mercantil de Monterrey. His significance as a businessman is achieved by being a co-founder in 1900 of the Compañía Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey (Iron and Steel Smelter Company of Monterrey). He also founded a cement factory that he sold to the Zambrano family, the predecessor of Cementos Hidalgo. Other companies in which he participated were Fundición No. 3, Peñoles, La Industrial glass factory, Vidriería S.A., Cigarrera and Molinos de Aceite Monterrey S.A.
Bio by: Ola K Ase
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