"We've never been there before." This was the response of Criteria's CEO, Àngel Simón, when asked about the return of the company's headquarters—and its parent company, the La Caixa Foundation—to Catalonia. His response to a journalist from Madrid, at an event organized by the financial daily Expansion, from the Unidad Editorial group. An intense event, opened by the mayor of Barcelona, ​​the socialist Jaume Collboni, and closed by the president of the Generalitat, the also socialist Salvador Illa, and which featured a large presence of Catalan business leaders, but also representatives of the Ibex 35, something not seen for some time in Barcelona.