Cooxupé Superintendent, Mário Panhotta da Silva, dies at age 53

The superintendent of roasting and new business at the Regional Coffee Growers' Cooperative in Guaxupé (Cooxupé), Mário Panhotta da Silva, passed away on the morning of this Tuesday (25/2), at the age of 53. The information was announced by the cooperative.

The wake and burial will take place in Guaxupé, in the south of Minas Gerais.

Mário Panhotta has built a career spanning more than three decades at Cooxupé. He began his career at the cooperative in 1987 as a Classifier, in Carmo do Rio Claro (MG).

He was then promoted to the headquarters in Guaxupé, where he held the positions of domestic market coordinator and commercial division manager. In 2019, he took over as superintendent of roasting and new business, leading the expansion of the cooperative's roasting industry in the Brazilian roasted and ground coffee market.

Born in Ilha Solteira (SP), Mário Panhotta leaves behind a wife, children, sister and mother.