Catalan Companies

07.05.2013 - 09.34 pm Gas Natural Fenosa earns €411 million in the first quarter of 2013, 1% more than a year ago The international business of the Catalan energy company has been the main driving force behind the profit increase in the January-March period,...	03.05.2013 - 09.21 pm Banc Sabadell pays AEGON €450 million for 50% of the insurance company Mediterraneo Vida The Catalan financial entity Banc Sabadell reached an agreement with the Dutch insurance company AEGON on Friday to buy 50% of the shares of Mediterr...	30.04.2013 - 09.10 pm Seat, Nissan, Ficosa, Gestamp and Doga back up the creation of an automation cluster in Catalonia The President of the Catalan Government announced the initiative which will aim to develop an industry and knowledge cluster of the automation sector...	29.04.2013 - 09.25 pm Lloyds buys 1.8% of Banc Sabadell by transferring its Spanish subsidiaries to the Catalan bank The Catalan Banc Sabadell has bought all the shares in the Lloyds subsidiary companies in Spain: Lloyds Bank International and Lloyds Investment....
23.04.2013 - 09.08 pm British Airways-Iberia to own 90% of Vueling after many shareholders decided to accept the takeover offer IAG, the company resulting from the merger of British Airways and Iberia, improved its initial offer from €7 per share to €9.25 to buy 100% of the...	23.04.2013 - 06.03 pm The Catalan Government attracted 37% more foreign investment in 2012 than in the previous year 47 foreign investment industrial projects, bringing in €331.88 million, landed in Catalonia last year through ‘Invest in Catalonia’, a programme from...	19.04.2013 - 09.52 pm Banc Sabadell will buy Banco Gallego for 1 euro after a €245 million injection of public money On Wednesday it became known that the Catalan Banc Sabadell would acquire Banco Gallego from the Spanish Fund for Orderly Banking Restructuring (FROB...	18.04.2013 - 06.47 pm Barcelona Port’s new hydrocarbon terminal is unveiled Tradebe’s new terminal for petrochemical products has 29 tanks for storing bulk liquids, with a total capacity of 450,000 cubic metres. The new...
17.04.2013 - 10.07 pm The Catalan Banc Sabadell to acquire the Banco Gallego The offer, presented by Banc Sabadell, has won the tender for the acquisition of Banco Gallego, which was nationalised and owned by the Spanish Fund...	16.04.2013 - 09.07 pm Catalan exports grow in Australia, Latin America and Northern Africa 54% of Catalonia’s external sales go to the international market while the remaining 46% go to the rest of Spain. The number of Catalan companies...	15.04.2013 - 09.41 pm CaixaBank has integrated all Banca Cívica’s operational and technological systems With the operation, the Barcelona-based bank, has more than 6,000 branches throughout Spain for the first time. CaixaBank, which tops the Spanish...	10.04.2013 - 09.02 pm Retail multinational Mango increased its turnover by 20% in 2012 The Catalan clothing company Mango had a €1.69 billion turnover last year, which is a 20% increase on 2011 data. 84% of the company’s revenue comes...
09.04.2013 - 10.16 pm Vueling’s Board accepts the new takeover conditions offered by British Airways-Iberia IAG, the merger between British Airways and Iberia, improved its offer on Vueling’s shares, increasing from a price of €7 per share to €9.25. The...	05.04.2013 - 04.36 pm Catalan firm participates in a European project investigating how to make plastic from vegetal biomass The firm QNORM, located in the Scientific and Technologic Park of the Girona University (UdG), participates in a European project that aims to...	27.03.2013 - 08.53 pm British Airways-Iberia improve their takeover offer on Vueling’s shares with an increase from €7 to €9.25 IAG, the airline formed after the merger of British Airways and Iberia, has improved its offer for the total takeover of Barcelona-based Vueling, one...	25.03.2013 - 09.03 pm Catalonia’s public body offering credit funded 8,500 companies in 2011 and 2012 with €1.7 billion The Institut Català de Finances (ICF), the Catalan Government’s financial institution which offers credit, announced that it gave €1.7 billion in...