About Us

Our Enterprise

Cantabria S.A. operates in the agricultural sector developing different activities, highlighting, par excellence, the wholesale on commission or on consignment of agricultural products. Some such as storage provision and deposit services. Para desarrollar esta actividad, Cantabria S.A. cuenta con la logística adecuada para lograr la mayor eficiencia y eficacia en los distintos negocios que se emprenden de la mano del productor. One of the keys that differentiates our company is based on the excellent relationship, already consolidated, that it has with the different exporters that participate in the cereal market of the Argentine Republic.

Mission

Offer the world commercial solutions from Licenciado Matienzo and the region, seeking to be the link between the parties, strengthening the connections between our clients and suppliers, without forgetting our values.

Values

Quality

Responsibility

Honesty

Excellence

Vision

To be a leading company in the commercialization of grains, developing a food supply network from Argentina to the world and from the different links of the agro-industrial chain.
Efficiently and transparently implement a business network, valuing the link between our customers and suppliers.

Our History

Our company has a common denominator with others in this country, its origin and fundamental bases come from the old "Almacenes de Ramos Generales", which, due to the need to increase their activity, added the cereal business.

The kickoff for Balza y Cia., which would later become Cantabria S.A., was given by Don Manuel Balza, a Basque immigrant from Santander, Spain; Arriving in Argentina around 1927, he began to work in the Warehouse business in three traditional corners of our Federal Capital, Venezuela and Tacuarí (Monserrat neighborhood), Cabildo and Olazabal (Belgrano neighborhood) and Talcahuano and Santa Fe ( North Quarter). The mountainous and small-town air of Santander forced this gentleman to undertake his journey towards the interior of the province of Buenos Aires; Arriving in the year 1939 to the Town of Napaleofú, being such the magnitude of the commercial operations that the Banco de la Nación Argentina names this House as one of its correspondents; Finally, in 1954, the House and its people would move to Licenciado Matienzo, settling here permanently.

In this small town in the southeast of Buenos Aires, the Company is forging its own path. The development of the cereal activity found its commercial leader in Ángel Balza (Don Manuel’s eldest son). He himself found support and support in his brothers, as well as in the rest of the family. “Angelito” and his brothers were cultivating the different facets of the granary trade, reaping a number of relationships; Thanks to this activity, they were always surrounded by valued friends.

The desire to grow and progress in the volume of operations motivated them to settle in other locations such as Lobería and Napaleofú. Likewise, to create a network of commercial agents in other areas outside the area of influence, thus managing to overcome provincial barriers and generate business throughout the country. Towards the end of the 1990s, the third generation began to join the firm, achieving a coordinated interaction, the result of which, apart from the different points of view that the various formations may have, was a consolidated block with the same values and principles in pursuit of the same end: “honesty, transparency, seriousness and commitment in each and every one of the acts carried out”.