Beginning in mid-September, the Mercabarna Training Centre will offer new occupational training courses for the unemployed. Co-financed by the Government of Catalonia, the courses train shop assistants in cured meat products, butchery, fishmongery and floristry.
Registration is now open for the continuous training courses to be offered from September to December. The course offer includes training in food safety, management, computer studies, risk prevention and languages.
Central Flower Market businesses wishing to participate in Red Point promotions and Mercabarna management have launched a new activity to announce the imminent opening of Mercabarna-flor on 1 September, geared towards both Market customers and the public at large.
Mercabarna management decided to suspend the official opening of the Slaughterhouse’s new lamb line scheduled for 12 June, owing to the effects of the transport strike on regular activity and the shortage inflicted on the overall population as a result.
Once again this year, Mercabarna and the AGEM (Association of Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Dealers of Barcelona and Province) have collaborated with the Schoolchildren’s Triathlon and Biathlon held on 4 and 12 June.
The International Fruit and Vegetable Alliance (IFAVA) congress was held in Paris on 29 and 30 May. One session was devoted to analysing the different fruit and vegetable promotional campaigns focused on children and carried out in France, the United States, Canada and Norway.
Mercabarna management has released its Annual Financial and Activities Report once again. This publication compiles the most significant developments in the different activity sectors and the results of the 2007 financial year.
Mercabarna saw loading bays practically empty, stalls with scant pickings and aisles almost bereft of buyers. The cause was the transport strike from 9 to 13 June called in to protest of the government’s failure to curb rising fuel costs.
On 30 May, Marie-Josée Roig, mayor of the city of Avignon in southeastern France, visited Mercabarna accompanied by managing director Montserrat Gil de Bernabé.
From 17 to 21 October Barcelona will once again present Hostelco, the international hospitality equipment trade fair.
