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Mercabarna president calls Barcelona “Spain’s food industry capital”
“Barcelona has become Spain’s food industry capital, in which Mercabarna and the Municipal Markets play a fundamental role.” With these words Jordi William Carnes, Barcelona’s deputy mayor with responsibility for Finance and Economic Promotion and chair of Mercabarna defined the city’s role in the overall Spanish agro-food sector at a function held during the Alimentaria trade fair on 12 March.
Mercabarna to train penitentiary inmates
Mercabarna and the Reinsertion Initiatives Centre (CIRE) have signed a collaboration agreement that will enable them to carry out joint actions for the training of penitentiary inmates in the field of food handling and distribution.
Innovative products ‘made in Mercabarna’
Alimentaria is now unquestionably one of the world’s leading food trade fairs. The close to 160,000 agro-food professionals from the world over who took part in this year’s event (4% more than in 2006), its 130,000 m2 of exhibition space and 5,000 exhibiting companies (1,500 of which were foreign) attest to this.
Mercabarna was amply represented by its stand at Restaurama, its participation in different activities, its sponsoring of some of the trade fair events and, above all, by the more than 20 Food Unit companies that took part on an individual basis.
