Do you need a worker who holds a food-handling certificate and is already trained? Mercabarna’s Training Area can help you find just such help. For 20 years now, the Area has trained future agrofood professionals through its occupational programmes aimed at the unemployed.
The city of Lleida hosted the 54th annual St Michael’s Fair and the 23rd annual Eurofruit show from 25 to 29 September, and Mercabarna was there.
Mercabarna lent a hand at the event scheduled to celebrate World Mental Health Day, held in Barcelona on 11 October. Mercabarna has collaborated with fresh fruit.
On 4 October, Mercabarna’s Central Fish Market wholesalers held a dinner organised by the Barcelona and Province Fresh and Frozen Fish and Seafood Wholesale Consignees’ Guild (GMP) to celebrate the Central Fish Market’s 25th anniversary.
The new Mercabarna-flor is beginning to spark the interest of flower-sector professionals the world over. Proof of this was the visit which the director of the central flower market of Oslo, Norway, and a delegation of wholesalers from the market made to the new centre on 20 September.
On 9 and 10 October, Lleida hosted the National Meat Congress for the first time. Now in its 4th year, this is one of the most important rendezvous for the Spanish meat sector.
On 8 October, Talavera de la Reina (in Toledo province) hosted the weekly meeting of the leading Spanish wholesale meat markets (Talavera, Mercolleida and Mercabarna) to decide on bovine prices.
In 1992, Willy Müller (Argentina, 1961) opened his first architect’s office in Barcelona. Now, 16 years later, he has an office in Brazil and works on projects in Russia, Mexico and Tunisia. He now enjoys an international projection in which, Mr Müller assures us, Mercabarna has played a vital role. Designing first the Green Point and now Mercabarna-flor has enabled him to experiment with new models of architecture of a major international scope.
Effort, excitement and optimism: according to Jordi Plana, these are the words that best describe the atmosphere of the new Mercabarna-flor since it threw open its doors on 1 September. Flower business owners are embarking on this new phase in a tailored centre with a greater product offer and extended business hours and services.
On 21 July, some 30 florists visited the Mercabarna-flor building site. Led by Mercabarna-flor manager, Jaume Esteve, the expedition set out by coach from the temporary Market in Mercabarna and made the 10-minute journey to Mercabarna-flor.
