Mercadona is a leading company of physical supermarkets in Spain with and online service, with over 1,600 stores and more than 5.6 million households as customers. Additionally, it has more than 30 stores in Portugal, with presence in four districts: Porto, Braga, Aveiro and Viana do Castelo. A family-owned company, Mercadona’s objective is to offer its customers the best solutions with the maximum quality in food, personal, home and pet care. Mercadona has the best talent: a staff of 95,800 highly committed individuals, 2,500 of them in Portugal, who share the Mercadona Model and a passion for excellence in service. To achieve this, it has a pioneering human resources policy in the industry which sets it apart, offering stable, quality employment, continuous training plans and internal promotion, among other values. The Mercadona Model is an innovative, shared and sustainable growth project that aims to satisfy all five components of the company equally and in this order: "The Boss" (Customers), The Employee, The Supplier, Society and Capital.