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More than sixty years of business activity in the Canary Islands.

The company

Invertia does not distribute, transport or host. Its role comes before all of that: it is where ownership is held and where the horizon is set. The companies operate. The holding endures.

Domains
Distribution, logistics, hospitality and portfolio
Registered office
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Governance
Board of directors
Overlaid market charts on a grid, in blues.

Three domains under one ownership.

The holding gathers the family's activity into three domains: a distribution and logistics group, a hospitality project and a portfolio of shareholdings. Each moves at its own pace; none is managed apart from the rest.

Whatever gets done, is done from here.

The distribution and logistics group, its three companies, the hospitality project and the portfolio. All registered in Gran Canaria and all sharing one origin: an import and distribution business built in the post-war Canary Islands.

Choose a company

Grupo Galarza

Distribution and logistics

Grupo Galarza gathers the holding's distribution and logistics activity, operating across the Canary archipelago. Under it sit Galaco in consumer goods, Cadiex in selective distribution and Wigow in logistics services.

It is the operating half of the structure: where Invertia holds the ownership, the group moves the product. It works under IFS Logistics and ISO 9001 certification.

3
operating companies
IFS · ISO 9001
certifications
grupogalarza.es— official Grupo Galarza site (opens in a new window)
Glass-fronted office concourse in backlight, with people walking through in motion blur among trees.
The group's operating structure

Galaco

Consumer goods distribution

Grupo Galarza

Galaco distributes food, beverages and non-food products across the archipelago's strategic channels. It is the company on which the rest of the group has been built.

Its premise is to act as an operational extension of the brands it represents: coverage, reach and service across a territory fragmented into islands.

40
brands represented
5,950
points of sale
5
islands served
galaco.es— official Galaco site (opens in a new window)
A woman and a young girl read a product label together in a supermarket aisle.
The brand at the point of sale

Cadiex

Selective distribution

Grupo Galarza

Cadiex works in wine, spirits and branded food. It is the part of the group where distribution stops being volume and becomes judgement: portfolio selection, advocacy and brand stewardship.

The company traces its origin to 1962, making it the oldest thread still alive inside the structure. It operates under the group's IFS Logistics and ISO 9001 certifications.

25
brands represented
1962
stated origin
cadiex.es— official Cadiex site (opens in a new window)
Several hands raising cocktails in a toast over a table of small dishes.
Wines and spirits in the on-trade

Wigow

Logistics

Grupo Galarza

Wigow is the brand under which the group introduced its integrated logistics services in 2026: international transport, customs and tax documentation, ambient and temperature-controlled storage, last-mile distribution, cross-docking, picking and inter-island transport.

It is the most recent addition to the structure and the one that best explains its direction: turning an internal capability, built over decades, into a service for others.

32,000 m²
ambient storage
30,000 m³
temperature controlled
80
vehicles in fleet
A worker in hard hat and hi-vis checks a tablet in a high-racked warehouse, a forklift moving behind her.
Storage and order preparation

Karibu

Hospitality

In 1986 the founder acquired a rural estate in Vega de San Mateo and called it Las Gaviotas — The Seagulls. At the entrance he placed a sign with four seagulls taking flight: one for each of his daughters.

Africa was his other great passion: thirty-five years travelling through more than fifteen countries and their nature reserves. Karibu Lodge comes from the meeting of those two devotions — the estate and the continent — and the family puts it in a single line: “We follow, like a herd of elephants, the path of his footsteps.”

It is the least financial part of the whole and probably the most revealing: a family asset that was not sold, but transformed.

1986
estate acquired
Vega de San Mateo
Gran Canaria
karibulodge.es— official Karibu site (opens in a new window)
A yellow-washed country house covered in ivy, with a long wooden table set outside.
Karibu Lodge, Vega de San Mateo

Investments and shareholdings

Portfolio

Invertia's corporate purpose includes the acquisition, sale, exchange, management, direction and administration of securities, shares and corporate holdings.

The specific composition of the portfolio is not made public. That is deliberate: discretion about family assets is part of how they are managed.

Close, out-of-focus view of a blue bar chart on a laptop screen.
Tracking the portfolio

A post-war business that learned how to last.

Joaquín Galarza was orphaned during the Spanish Civil War and started working at twelve. He traded first in threads, pins and needles; then he began importing into the Canary Islands whatever the islands were short of. Everything else comes from there.

  1. 1962 — 1988

    The trade

    An import business built by hand in an archipelago where almost everything arrived by sea. And, in the middle of it, the place the family returns to.

    • The oldest thread

      Cadiex places in this year the origin of the activity still alive inside the group today.

    • Las Gaviotas

      The founder acquires a rural estate in Vega de San Mateo and names it Las Gaviotas — The Seagulls: a sign at the entrance showing four seagulls taking flight, one for each of his daughters. Forty years later it becomes Karibu.

    • Comercial J. Galarza

      Distribution stops being a personal trade and starts being an organisation.

  2. 2010 — 2016

    The structure

    Ownership stops being dispersed and takes a single shape. The group grows by simplifying.

    • Invertia is incorporated

      On 20 January, Galarza Invertia, S.L. is incorporated as a holding company.

    • Consolidation

      Invertia absorbs Regional de Comercio Redeco, S.L. Fewer companies, more order.

  3. 2022 — 2026

    The present

    What was built inwards over sixty years begins to open outwards.

    • Institutional presence

      Laura Galarza, president of the group and managing director of Invertia, joins the Círculo de Empresarios de Gran Canaria.

    • Wigow

      The group introduces its integrated logistics brand, opened to third parties.

Four seagulls taking flight.

The sign the founder hung at the gate of the estate in 1986 carried four seagulls, one for each of his daughters. Forty years on, they are the ones running the house.

  • Black-and-white studio portrait of Natalia Galarza.
    Natalia Galarza
  • Black-and-white studio portrait of Rosa María Galarza.
    Rosa María Galarza
  • Black-and-white studio portrait of Laura Galarza.
    Laura Galarza
  • Black-and-white studio portrait of Marisa Galarza.
    Marisa Galarza

How decisions get made.

Mission

To administer the Galarza family's assets with a single criterion: that the companies within it can go on operating with independence, solvency and roots in the Canary Islands long after those who run them today.

Vision

A family structure able to carry generational succession without interrupting the business; growing through consolidation and judgement rather than accumulation, and still measuring its decisions in decades.

Continuity
Decisions are made with the next generation in mind, not the next financial year. It is the only real advantage a family business has, and it is not delegated.
Rootedness
The Canary Islands are not a market to operate in: they are where everything was built. The distance from the mainland and from the African continent is not an obstacle to the business; it is its starting condition.
Discretion
Family assets are administered, not displayed. What is made public is what can be supported with documents.

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Registered office

Calle Acusa, 635010 Las Palmas de Gran CanariaCanary Islands, Spain