Nouvelles

The Food Bank is Looking for People like You

Mercabarna, the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Dealers (AGEM) and the Food Bank launched a campaign a year ago for businesses in the Central Fruit and Vegetable Market to encourage them to donate excess fresh produce. The goal was to help the Bank deal with the huge rise in demand for food for the needy that arose when the economic downturn began.

New Provisional Car Park at Mercabarna

Mercabarna has opened a provisional car park next to entrance K to the precinct in order to facilitate parking in the area where construction work on the Multiservice II building and development of the space that formerly housed the Flower Market are going on.

Laying of the First Stone of the Future House of Agriculture

The first stone of the future House of Agriculture, a facility that will serve as a meeting point for agricultural cooperatives and associations and which also aspires to become a forum for the dissemination of the opinions of Catalan farmers, was laid on 28 May.

Catalonia’s Municipal Markets Reflect on Their Future

The Government of Catalonia, Barcelona Provincial Council and the Municipal Markets Institute organised the 1st Municipal Markets of Catalonia Congress on 17 May, which drew associations of vendors, technicians and food professionals, including Mercabarna management.

Implementing Food Safety in Businesses

Food sector businesses are bound by law to implement their own controls to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations with regard to product handling and in their facilities.

Presentation on Future Challenges for Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Dealers

Around 20 Mercabarna businesspeople attended the presentation of the study on future strategies for fruit and vegetable wholesale dealers that took place on 1 June and which forms part of the Strategic Plan of the Barcelona Food Businesses Cluster that Mercabarna is promoting.

Commitment to Children’s Health and the Rural Sector

Mercabarna and the Association of Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Dealers (AGEM) worked together in May and June on two events aimed at promoting healthy eating and lifestyle habits among children.

Project to Detect the Technological Requirements and Improvements Needed in Mercabarna Companies

Mercabarna, IRTA (Institute of Agriculture and Food Research and Technology) – through its partner CENTA (Centre for New Food Technologies and Processes) – and KIMbcn, a company that carries out technological assessments, will implement a project to detect the technological requirements of precinct companies.

New Business Opportunities in Developing Markets

Around 350 Catalan fruit and vegetable professionals, along with 27 international operators, participated in the FRUITA 10 Congress, Catalonia's First International Congress on Sweet Fruits, which was held from 5 to 7 May in Lleida.

Cultivar Opens a New Warehouse at Mercamadrid

Cultivar, Mercabarna's fruit and vegetable company, has opened a new warehouse in the Services and Warehouse Zone at Mercamadrid.
Thirteen years ago this company opened in this Food Unit and it currently has six sales points in the Fruit and Vegetable Market.

Greengrocer Chains Join Forces

Interview with Mercè Sousa, wholesaler with CMR, the fruit and vegetable sales company

At 90 years of age, Mercè can count on one hand the number of days she has not come to the Market. A tireless worker, Mercè has been selling fruit and vegetables wholesale for seven decades. She has seen with her own eyes how her small dealer's stall at the old Born Market has grown into one of the most powerful companies in the Central Fruit and Vegetable Market.

Interview with Lluís Ràfols, from Ràfols Fruits

At age 24, Lluís is one of the youngest dealers at the Market. Having started helping in the family business his father runs during the summer, he has now been a dealer for one year. He hopes to eventually run the company.

2009 Financial Report Published

At the end of May, Mercabarna’s management published its Financial and Activity Report 2009.

Mercabarna and Companies from the Precinct in ‘La salud al cistell’ on TV3

Since mid-May, Mercabarna has once again been sponsoring ‘La salud al cistell’ (Health in the Shopping Basket), an informative programme on the Catalan channel TV3.