Business/Economy news & information for Catalonia

A SUPPORT centre for online store Amazon is set to open in Barcelona, creating 500 new jobs over the next three years.

CATALUNYA'S independence would be a major blow to Spain's international credit rating – and to that of Catalunya as a new country, according to Moody's.

In a special session held today, the board of directors of the Banco Sabadell took the decision to move the bank's corporate headquarters from Catalonia to Alicante ahead of a possible unilateral declaration of...

BARELY 48 hours after Banco Sabadell announced its intention to move its head office to Alicante, reports claim the Mediolanum Bank also plans to leave Catalunya and set up in Valencia instead.

CAIXABANK has announced this evening (Friday) that it will be moving its head office out of Barcelona and into Valencia, Spain's third-largest city.

COURIER firm MRW and insurance company Catalana Occidente have decided to move their head offices out of Catalunya, fearing its regional government will make a unilateral declaration of independence.

A SPANISH flag measuring 731 square metres, weighing 248 kilos and 14 storeys in length has been hung from apartment blocks under construction in Madrid's Valdebebas by a building firm 'fed up with' the...

BARCELONA will find out today (Monday) whether it has been successful in its bid to become the new venue for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), currently based in London.

BARCELONA has fallen at the first hurdle in its quest to host the European Medicines Agency (EMA) once it leaves London at the end of March 2019 due to Brexit.

PANASONIC, Mitsubishi Electric and La Tagliatella are the latest three firms to move their head offices out of Catalunya in light of the ongoing independence issue.

BARCELONA is set to launch its own currency next month – the REC, which residents can spend in 10 neighbourhoods at first and which may spread to more areas of the metropolitan zone.

FAST food company McDonald's has launched a burger made entirely with Spanish produce from local farmers in a bid to help them get through the economic turndown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.