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At the age of 69, the businessman and founder of the Mercacentro supermarket chain, Carlos José Alvarado Parra, passed away.
His death occurred at 3:28 am on Tuesday, November 3, after spending 13 days in the Intensive Care Unit of the Asotrauma Clinic in Ibagué.
“The Asotrauma SAS Clinic regrets to inform the community in general that Mr. Carlos José Alvarado Parra, died in the Intensive Care Unit of La Clínica at 03:28 am, after being hospitalized since October 21, 2020. A Fraternal embrace of Condolences to His Wife, Children, Grandchildren and the entire Mercacentro Family ”, the assistance center informed through a press release.
Alvarado was born on October 9, 1951 in Silvania, Cundinamarca and managed to win the affection of Tolima residents since he arrived in the municipality of Planadas at 12 years of age.
Don Carlos, as his employees and friends called him, became one of the most beloved men in the region. He was always characterized by being a sensitive, humane person and committed to social causes.
His business life began when he was just a child in the south of Tolima where he got a woman to rent him a portion of land where he grew beans and with the produce he began to buy products that were not available in that town.
In this way, he built what is now a supermarket chain that generates more than 1,300 direct jobs and as many indirect jobs.
In Planadas he met his wife, Hortensia Molina, with whom he married and formed one of the most respectable families in the region, with whom he has managed to overcome very difficult moments, but they managed to get ahead of all.
While in this municipality, Don Carlos was lucky enough to be in several coffee bonanzas that helped him to put together a good plant with which in 1986 he arrived in Ibagué to set up his first business which he called San Carlos, but shortly afterwards he organized with his family and decided to set up a small supermarket called Mercacentro located on Carrera Primera with Calle 14.
There she worked with all her children and that was the beginning of the largest supermarket chain in the Tolima region.
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