Jade Bird in Barcelona

The fire alarm company will centralize all your European business from Barcelona

The Chinese multinational Jade Bird has chosen Barcelona for its first European headquarters. Dedicated to the production of fire alarms for hospitals, factories and stores, it has more than 2,000 workers and the headquarters in Beijing.

In the beginning Jade Bird will create a fortnight of jobs to the Catalan capital this year and will centralize from here all its European business. Likewise, it will open some offices with an area of ​​250 square meters from where it will manage both the engineering and marketing of its products.

When the company decided to expand into Europe, it was looking for “a city that offers a solid foundation for long-term business,” said Brian J. Stumm, vice president and general manager of Jade Bird Fire Alarm International Europe. “We chose Barcelona as the headquarters for its logistics, access to markets and splendid technical community, “he said. Now, the company is looking for a fortnight of workers for its new staff in Barcelona, ​​with profiles of engineering, technical support, marketing, sales and administration.

These systems include smoke and heat detectors, manual alarms and control modules adapted to the regulations and needs of the European market.

“We intend to increase this figure in the future as we grow to support our customers both locally and Europeanly,” stressed Stumm. The company has had the support of Catalonia Trade Investment, the area of ​​attraction of foreign investments of ACCIÓ, to settle in Barcelona.

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Adaptive office in Barcelona

Specialized in software for banking and financial technology platforms

Adaptive office in Barcelona

The British technology company Adaptive has opened a headquarters in Barcelona to serve all of Europe, which has led to the creation of 16 new jobs. The company, however, plans to generate more jobs and close this year with a team of 30 professionals, mostly computer developers.

Adaptive, which specializes in the creation of software for banking entities and fintech, has counted for this investment project in Catalonia with the support of the Generalitat through Catalonia Trade & Investment, the area of attraction of foreign investments of ACCIÓ.

Founded in 2012 in London, Adaptive has a team of 100 people worldwide and has recently opened an office in Montreal, Canada. The head of the Barcelona office, Pierre Prevot, has assured that Adaptive will develop leading technology from its Catalan headquarters for various international projects. “We decided to open offices in Barcelona to be closer to our European customers,” Prevot said.

“Barcelona has a lot of added value because there is a favorable microclimate for technological innovation,” he argued. “Catalonia is a very multicultural and international region that will allow us to take advantage of the talent of the whole world,” he continued.

According to ACCIÓ, over the last five years 52 investment projects from the United

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Economic promotion in Barcelona

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The economic promotion service of the city of Barcelona has been chosen as the best in the world, according to a report by fDi Magazine, Financial Times group. The award considers the Catalan capital to be the “most efficient” in the world to attract foreign investment projects. Of the 124 participating cities and regions, Barcelona has achieved the highest overall rating and has excelled in several of the 46 individual categories such as performance management, diversification strategies and strategies Web.

Jaume Collboni, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, has celebrated the recognition and highlighted that “Barcelona has developed over the years an international economic promotion strategy recognized around the world that is shared with public and private agents and seeks collaboration , and not just competition, with other cities in the world.

“In fact, the data presented within the Observatory 15 days ago already showed that Barcelona during this period has been one of the main urban areas of the world receiving international investment projects. Therefore, the recognition that comes to us now is the key to understanding the notoriety of these data, said Collboni.

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Coca-Cola European Partners

Meeting with analysts and international investors in Barcelona

 

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Coca-Cola European Partners, the Coca-Cola in thirteen European countries as a result of the merger completed in May Coca-Cola Iberian Partners with Coca-Cola Enterprises and the German Coca-Cola Erfischingsgetränke, held tomorrow and Wednesday in Barcelona a meeting with analysts and international investors. The event is part of the group’s activities to publicize the evolution of business and also serve to show the Spanish market opportunities for the company, according to the group. Investors and analysts guests visit the plant Martorelles.

Sol Daurella, president of Coca-Cola European Partners, will act as host of an event that will also feature the presence of John F. Brock, CEO; Daniel Gammell, chief operating officer, and Nik Jhangiani, CFO of the company. The meeting brings together some forty people, investors and analysts representing investment banks and funds from European and American investment. This will be the second big event of the company in Spain, after the IPO ceremony in Madrid in June.

Coca-Cola European Partners is based in London but remains operational, management and taxation locally in each region: Iberia, France, Germany, UK and Nordics. The seven Spanish families joined its bottlers in Iberian (led by Daurella, Cobega) control 34% of the new company; The Coca-Cola Company (which owned the German bottler) 18%, and the rest traded, as did Coca-Cola Enterprises. Now PECC, which is the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola Net income, listed on the Madrid, New York, London and Amsterdam.

Coca-Cola Bottling European Partners is resulting from the merger of three companies that was completed last May, so the company offers proforma figures-comparable with the results obtained by the member firms the same period of the previous year. In the first half, it earned a net book profit of 210 million euros (-11.5%) but on a comparable pro forma basis would be higher (405 million), an increase of 10%, according to results presented last week.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine in Barcelona

The Government signed an agreement with the Beijing government to boost its creation in Catalonia

Traditional Chinese Medicine in Barcelona

The Beijing government has chosen Catalonia to create the first center of traditional Chinese medicine outside Asia. The Generalitat signed on January 27 an agreement with a consortium of Chinese companies and research centers and hospitals, the Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, led by the Beijing government to boost the creation of this center, which would be Europe’s largest of its kind.

Company sources and Knowledge Department report that the downtown location is still unknown. “Barcelona is one of the options, but there are other possible locations. What is certain is that it will be in Catalonia, “say sources of the department.

For its part, the European Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who attended the launch of the project last January 28 in the auditorium of Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona (UB), said that the center “will or yes in Barcelona city but do not know exactly where, “and involve an investment of” 80 million euros “. Since the Government does not want to talk about figures and say that the project is still “under negotiation”.

The project includes the launch of an official master for physicians interested in traditional Chinese medicine, to be conducted in collaboration between UB and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. This master will the arrival of new students Catalunya internationally, according to the Department of Enterprise and Knowledge directed Jordi Baiget.

The initiative also entail the creation of new lines of research related to this field of medicine, and a cultural center that is responsible for the spread of this discipline as well as the opening of an institute for care and support and recognition use of herbs using traditional Chinese medicine.

The aim is to apply “Western scientific knowledge to validate the principles and applications of traditional Chinese medicine,” according to the Government. “It is very positive news. It’s not only a breakthrough in traditional medicine but also serve to update the regulation is outdated in Spain in this area. Also help to raise awareness of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to collaborate with the benefit of patients, “they say from the European Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The project has received support and advice in the area of ​​attracting foreign investments ACCIÓ and the Ministry of Universities and Research. A delegation from the Chinese consortium with which the agreement has been signed will be installed temporarily at the headquarters of ACCIÓ in Barcelona to find the most suitable location for the new center.

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Toro Development Barcelona

The company, the French capital is dedicated to payment via mobile and employs 30 people at its offices in Barcelona

Toro Development Barcelona

The French-owned technology company Toro Development has moved its headquarters from Taiwan to Barcelona to be close to your target market, Europe. The company had a turnover of 1.3 million euros in 2015, 60% more than two years ago, and has 30 workers in Barcelona, ​​although the idea is to increase staff during the year. Among its customers T-Mobile or SpareBank counted and Visa and Mastercard have among its partners.

The Barcelona and once again demonstrates its ability to attract highly innovative companies and strengthens its position as a European technology hub. Overall, according to figures from Catalonia Trade & Investment website there are 6,500 international companies already established in Catalonia.

Toro Development, which is dedicated to payment via mobile, working in an independent European platform ‘mobile wallet’ including payments, loyalty and public transport, as reported by the Department of Company i Ocupació of the Government in a statement.

This system, through intelligent and with maximum security phones, allows payments of any amount to all kinds of trade and transport, and also facilitates access to areas where personal identification is necessary.

For the opening of its new plant, Toro has received the support of the Generalitat of Catalonia agency Trade & Investment, and besides, the company has achieved 1.9 million in funding for SMEs SME Instrument call, one of the new programs EU Horizon 2020.

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