This year, Transgourmet Ibérica has completed the transformation process the company began in 2019 with the aim of modernizing and consolidating its food distribution business model, both in the hospitality sector and in franchised convenience supermarkets. This evolution of the sector has coincided with a historic milestone: the celebration of its centenary. Throughout the year, the company has combined significant strategic initiatives with a commemorative program, highlighting its century-long history. During this year, Transgourmet Ibérica has invested €85 million, including the acquisitions of Dispuig and Moyà Saus and the creation of Nuditrans in partnership with Nudisco. With these operations, the company has expanded its reach into three key regions: Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community.

"I always say it's the best gift I've ever received." A mother from Barcelona says this when she recalls what a friend sent her during the height of the pandemic for the birth of her third daughter: an assortment of ready-made meals, ready to eat anytime and requiring no more than two minutes to heat. "After giving birth, the body needs rest, warmth, and nourishment, and the last thing we want to think about is cooking," she concludes. Núria Arnau, cook and owner of Bendito TupperA workshop in Badalona that specializes in weekly shipments of lunchboxes with prepared food. Among its offerings, it recently created the Baby Kit, a pack of 14 servings Designed for couples who have recently welcomed a baby. "We understand that their lives have changed profoundly, but we believe their diet shouldn't change; on the contrary, it should be a time for care, enjoyment, and connection," concludes this entrepreneur originally from Bell-lloc (Pla d'Urgell).

The town of Mollerussa is what we all know today (a regional capital with more than 15,000 inhabitants) thanks to two fundamental historical events: the construction of the Urgell Canal, which began irrigating land that had previously been a veritable desert in the mid-19th century, and the simultaneous construction of the train station and a line that would connect the town. A population boom was assured. Hundreds of farmers and merchants took advantage of this favorable economic climate, as did the most far-sighted entrepreneurs.

Today I want to share a deeper, metaphorical, and inspirational article. As individuals, as personal brands, and as businesses, we are unique by nature. Like the Amazon rainforest, you carry within you a world that is impossible to copy. Abundance, untamed beauty, and expanding potential impossible to replicate. Every detail, every element that makes up that ecosystem is unique and unrepeatable.

On Sunday, June 15, Transgourmet Ibérica brought together more than 500 people at the iconic Tarraco Arena in Tarragona to commemorate its 100th anniversary. The event brought together representatives of institutions and business organizations, industry figures, clients, suppliers, and employees from the regions of Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre, southern Barcelona, ​​​​Lleida, and the Valencian Community to celebrate this historic milestone, highlighting the company's current leadership position in wholesale food distribution.

It has been days since the Congress of Deputies brought together so many senior executives from some of the country's main companies, and also the highest representative of the Catalan employers' association Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, and from the Spanish CEOE, Antonio Garamendi. In fact, they are all usually reluctant to be photographed at events that go beyond the business and economic sphere, and they put up even more obstacles if they enter fully into a political space.

Net profits at Tesla, the car company founded by tycoon Elon Musk, fell 71% in the first quarter of the year to $409 million, after recording a 20% drop in revenue from the automotive sector. The Trump administration has been blamed for the cuts in the public sector; a fact that, among other things, could have ended up taking its toll on its business. The company posted revenues of $19.335 billion, 9% less than the same period the previous year. At the same time, the car manufacturer's operating expenses increased and margins shrank. The company announced that it had sold 13% fewer vehicles.However, the results, according to experts, are "worse" than analysts expected.

The companies that make up the Ibex 35, the benchmark index of the Spanish stock market, have lost almost 80 billion euros in market value in the first nine days of April due to the sharp falls experienced in stock markets around the world following the announcement of a new wave of tariffs by the President of the United States, Donald. Specifically, the Spanish index fell 10.1% in these first nine days of the month.

"In the age of machines, perhaps we should think about this: humans know things and so do machines, but they don't know them the way humans know them, although, depending on how, they know them better. The fact is that it's not just what is known that's important, but also how it is known," wrote philosopher Josep Maria Terricabras in his book Dare to think, published in 1998. Artificial intelligence was not yet being discussed, but the thinker was already advocating the need for tools and aids to think better and reflected on the "usefulness of rigorous thinking in everyday life," as the book's subtitle stated. It was this book that inspired the awards named after Manel Xifra Boada, founder of Comexi, one of the largest companies in Catalonia, a world leader in the flexographic printing machinery construction sector, which today exports 90% of its production, with an annual turnover of more than 100 million euros.

The company that made Galician folk art fashionable closed one of its factories this Thursday, amid uncertainty about its future. A few days ago, the legendary Sargadelos ceramics factory received a notice from the Labor Inspectorate resulting in a "significant financial fine" for 36 sanctioning reasons for negligence or incorrect manufacturing procedures. The owner of the Galician company, Segismundo García, known for his stoicism and for having managed to refloat the company when it was completely bankrupt, responded by announcing the closure of one of its two factories, the most historic one, located in Cervo, Lugo, without clarifying that it will close the second one, in the town of Sada.

Throughout her professional career, Arianne Rovira (Barcelona, ​​1966) has worked for several multinational companies and has held positions in marketing, sales, and general management departments. She has poured everything she has learned from her experience in the business world into this book. Mediocre bosses (Libros de Cabecera), which provides the keys to identifying a bad head and addressing job dissatisfaction.

If you own a business or brand, how many times have you found yourself following the same paths as everyone else, copying business models and services or using the same formulas? Several times, right?

The food distribution company Transgourmet Ibérica has set the goal of becoming the leading distributor in the hospitality sector throughout Spain. Based in Vilamalla, the company is celebrating its centenary this year at a very good time, as explained by CEO Lluís Labariu at the start of the celebrations held in Girona. "The key to reaching one hundred years is because, at different times in history, first the family and then the management team have been able to make the right decisions to adapt the company to the needs of each moment," said Labariu. With a turnover of more than 1.2 billion euros in 2024, Transgourmet Ibérica has been the company with the highest turnover in the Girona region for years.

Passeig de Gràcia has seen it all. What began as a cart path to link unwalled Barcelona and Vila de Gràcia at the beginning of the 19th century, has ended up being, according to the latest figures from ASCANA for 2023, the most expensive commercial axis in Catalonia with a rental price per square metre of €3,460, a figure only surpassed by 0,000 euros. But beyond the ranking of prices paid by companies that see Passeig de Gràcia as a business centre, this transformation has also had a full impact on the modification of the urban landscape of Barcelona.

For years, international brands and stars have been strengthening their relationships to socially link themselves with the values that both represent. This is how Kim Kardashian and her closest relatives have managed to consolidate their great business empire over the years. But the latest of the model's collaborations with a brand was especially notable. For the first time, Nike has joined forces with an external brand: Skims, the company of the sociality dedicated to underwear. Both companies will form Nike Skims.

We often ask ourselves what kind of country we want. It is a pertinent and necessary question, and one that has many answers. One of them would most certainly have to do with scientific ambition, behind which there are a number of virtues: it calls for a high level of education, it helps to make innovation possible in companies and therefore to create wealth, and it drives concrete solutions to improve our quality of life. Scientific projects are an engine of progress. The first Catalan nanosatellite, the Enxaneta, lifted off this Monday morning, after two postponements. It culminates a two-year work and is the first of the six nanosatellites that the Generalitat plans to activate in a first phase that will last between three and four years. To speak, as has been said at some point, of the Catalan NASA is laughable. But the project itself must be taken very seriously. If only there were more initiatives of this calibre. The Enxaneta is part of Catalonia's NewSpace Strategy, which aims to place Catalonia in the new space economy as a sector of opportunities to improve the economy and services on Earth.

The way out of the economic crisis does not only depend on the success of vaccination against covid-19. There are other factors to take into account, the main but not only one being European aid. This Wednesday the State has announced a new aid package of €11bn aimed in particular at the hospitality industry, tourism, small businesses and SMEs and the self-employed. Welcome, but let's see how fast they are distributed and where they end up. For starters, it has not yet been clarified whether a part will be direct aid, a relevant detail. Unlike other countries, Spain so far has not given any: it has chosen to reduce some taxes and contributions, offer moratoriums, give guarantees and, above all, assume the cost of furlough. A set of measures that have barely stopped the blow. In fact, according to the European Central Bank Spain has devoted a smaller percentage of GDP (1.3%) to combat the economic crisis with direct aid than any other eurozone country.