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History

The Superior Organization of Business Management OSDE: Grupo Comercializador de Productos Industriales y de Servicios in its abbreviated form Grupo Industrial (GI), arises on September 4, 2006, initially called Union of Wholesale Companies of Consumer and Intermediate Goods – UNIB- In the evolution of its history and its operation has undergone organizational and functional transformations, in which cadres, specialists and workers committed to it have achieved its continuous development and improvement, facing a challenge for the future. Its creation has its historical antecedents nuanced by the Cuban revolutionary process itself and within it the Ministry of Internal Trade itself.

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On February 24, 1976, the Constitution of the Republic was approved, beginning a process of institutionalization in the state and the government. This period is characterized by a wide commercial and financial exchange with the then socialist camp of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the incorporation of Cuba to the CAME that guaranteed a systematic and stable supply of a wide nomenclature of products, and as a result of that In the context, in the Ministry of Internal Trade to attend the trade network, large central companies were created in the late 70s and early 80s, including:

On June 27, 1994, by means of agreement No. 2775 of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers, the transfer of the Universal Companies of the extinct CEATM to the MINCIN was approved, which were incorporated into the organization at the time of its creation.

  • Central Company of Supply and Sale of Chemical and Rubber Products
  • National Refrigeration Company – ENFRIGO-
  • Central Company for Personal and Domestic Use
  • Central Food Wholesale Company – ALIMEC-
  • Textile and Footwear Products Trading Company –TEXCAL-
  • Production and Marketing Company of Hardware and Wood. FERMAD-
  • National Transportation Company for Commerce- ETNC
  • Central Supply and Sales Company of Industrial Equipment and other equipment. ECAVAF
  • Central Hardware and Toy Wholesale Company
  • Center for Systems Design and Automated Data Processing – CEDIPAD-
  • Promotion and Exchange Company – EMPI
  • National Center of Containers and Packaging -CNEE
  • OEE – State Economic Organization of Special Establishments and Markets.
  • Trading and Importing Company of Hardware, Equipment and Associated Services –FEQSA- Year 2000.
  • Idle and Slow Motion Resources Marketing Company, in abbreviated form COPLER- 1999
  • Industrial Company of Associated Equipment and Services (EIESA) – 1999.
  • Internal Trade Security and Protection Company – ESPCI – 1999
  • EMSUNA Corporate Group

Changes in the evolution and development of the organization

  • Creation of new functional directions in the central office, to improve the attention to different processes.
  • 2011 – Change name of UNIB by Group.
  • 2011 – Extinction of the Central Company for Personal and Domestic Use
  • 2011 – Creation of the Universal Products Marketing Companies of Havana, Artemisa and Mayabeque.
  • 2012 – Extinction of the Idle and Slow-Moving Resources Trading Company, in abbreviated form COPLER
  • 2012 – Merger of the Textile and Footwear Products Marketing and Services Companies, the Producer, the Hardware and Wood Marketer and the Consumer Goods, Intermediate and Services Marketer – creation of the Grancomercial
  • 2013 –Extinction of the Isla de la Juventud Universal Products and Services Marketing Company.
  • 2015 – Approved the constitution of the OSDE Gi.
  • 2017 –Extinction of the Internal Trade Security and Protection Company – ESPCI.
  • 2017- It authorizes the merger of the Industrial Company of Associated Equipment and Services (EIESA) – and the Commercialization Company of Equipment, Parts and Household Accessories, ECEPAE.
  • 2019 – Creation of the Mercantile Society ALBUS SA
  • Companies that join the Business Management and Direction System – Business Improvement – Ciego de Avila 2007, Santi Spìritus 2008, Matanzas 2010, Pinar del Río and Camagüey, both in 2011, EIESA 2014, Cienfuegos 2017 and Artemisa in 2019, with of them 13 companies – representing 65% of all companies.
  • 2011 – The commercialization of cleaning products by Universal Companies is assumed.
  • 2015 – With the establishment of the OSDE, business activities carried out by the Ministry of Internal Trade are assumed.
  • 2016- Transfer of activities carried out by the Electrical Equipment, Parts and Accessories Marketing Company -ECEPAE- for the Universal Companies.
  • 2016 –Transfer of activities from the La Habana Universal Company to Grancomercial and EIESA.
  • 2017 – Reorganization of the security and physical protection activity in all the companies based in Havana.
  • 2018 – Transfer of EIESA activities to the Universales Stgo de Cuba, Ciego de Avila and Matanzas companies.