Catalonia Invest in Catalonia
Issue 18 March, 31st 2016
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TURNING A PASSION FOR GASTRONOMY INTO BUSINESS

F�rum Inversi� 2016

Food & Drink

Alimentaria, one of the world’s most important food & drink trade fairs, is being held in Barcelona this April. Over 3,400 food industry companies in Catalonia constitute one of Europe’s largest food clusters, dominated by SME’s and some large Catalan firms and multinationals. This provides critical mass and talent at all stages of the value chain.

INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENTS

The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism has launched a new line of loans aimed at fostering new industrial projects, increasing productive capacity of existing businesses and generating improvements in existing production lines. This programme has a budget of €546,809,785.

TRANSFER PRICES

Catalonia Trade & Investment, within the framework of its yearly seminars, organised together with the professional services firm, KPMG, a session on “New challenges for companies in terms of transfer pricing”, which brought together 94 attendants.

INNOVATION HIGHLIGHTS

Five Catalan made drones ranked amongst the world’s best and a software that can concentrate all the signals of the support systems to which a patient in the intensive care unit (ICU) is connected.

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