Offering ideas and solutions to Mercabarna businesses to help them cut their energy costs. This was the goal of the Energy Efficiency Congress organised on 7 March by the food estate, via the Barcelona Food Cluster Association, and the Catalonia Energy Efficiency Cluster, and which drew around sixty attendees.
Mercabarna will play a more high-profile role in the Barcelona-Catalonia Logistics Centre (BCL) platform as the food estate’s managing director Josep Tejedo has joined the executive committee of this association whose principal mission is to promote Catalonia as a logistics hub abroad.
Innovating is a good strategic plan for companies that want to stand out from their competitors. But how does a company go about starting an innovation policy? What does it need to be truly innovative? An expert in innovation and two Mercabarna businesses discuss their experiences in this field.
Mercabarna has joined the collaboration project against food waste run by the AECOC association of mass market retailers and which already has the support of over 150 companies representing all of the links in the agrofood chain.
Three fruit and vegetable firms located in the Complementary Activities Zone (ZAC) have in recent months renewed their contracts to remain at Mercabarna.
A total of 11 fruit and vegetable businesses from Mercabarna chose to make another appearance at Fruit Logistica, which was held in Berlin from 8 to 10 February.
Turning an idea into an innovative, profitable project: this is the challenge companies face when they want to pursue innovation to boost their competitiveness.
Laumont is a firm that specialises in marketing mushrooms and truffles from all over the world. It has offices in Mercabarna and Mercamadrid. Q- How much importance do you place on innovation? A- For us, innovating is the same thing as improving.
Schara makes sausages and cold meats for customers mainly in the supermarket sector. For the past three years it has also had a store at the Boqueria Market in Barcelona.
Frutas Escandell is a family business that operates out of the Central Fruit and Vegetable Market. It has been exporting produce, particularly strawberries, to Europe for many years.
