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Sports
FC Barcelona to tour the USA and Mexico in the summer
Sports
Catalan riders Marc Coma and Laia Sanz make history at Dakar 2015
Business
Barcelona-based Desigual launches its own stores in Mexico and Canada
Business
Barcelona-based Gas Natural Fenosa to make take-over of biggest energy distributor in Chile for €2.6 billion
Business
Banc Sabadell completes the acquisition of the US JGB Bank in Florida for $36 million
Life & Style
World’s best restaurant to tour South-America in August 2014
Business
Bayer to control 25% of its global sales from Barcelona
Business
Catalan Sabadell Bank approves a capital increase of €1.4 billion
Business
Barcelona-based Gas Natural Fenosa to stay in Panama for 15 more years through Edernet and Edechi
Culture
The pact between Columbus and the Catholic Monarchs prior to America’s discovery on show in Barcelona
Culture
The 19th Latin American Film Festival in Lleida showed 117 films from 14 different countries
The 19th edition of the Latin American Film Festival in Lleida ended last weekend after showing 117 films from 14 different countries. Argentine film director Gustavo Garzón’s movie 'Por un tiempo' (‘For a time’) had its world premiere while honorary awards were delivered to Spanish actor José Coronado and Mexican actor Damián Alcazar. 'Porcelain horse' (Mejor no hablar de ciertas cosas), directed by Ecuador’s Javier Andrade, won the Best Film Award. The budget for this year’s edition had been reduced by 24% and the Festival was forced to remove documentary and retrospective sections from the programme.
Business
Catalan exports grow in Australia, Latin America and Northern Africa
54% of Catalonia’s external sales go to the international market while the remaining 46% go to the rest of Spain. The number of Catalan companies which sold their products outside of Spain in 2012 was 45,000 enterprises, representing a 6.3% increase in relation to the 2011 figures and 11,554 more companies than at the start of the economic crisis. The export sector represented €58.28 billion, which was 28% of Catalonia’s GDP in 2012. The figure represented a 5% increase compared to 2011 and a 15% growth on data from before the economic crisis. Sales outside the European Union increased by 16% last year, especially in Oceania (61%), Africa (24%) and Latin America (21%).
Culture
Barcelona will open the Museum of World Cultures in June 2014
A journey around the world through art. This is the aim of the new museum in Barcelona, the Museum of World Cultures, which will open its doors in June 2014 in two gothic palaces in front of the Picasso Museum. This new cultural offer in the capital of Catalonia will host art pieces from non-western collections of the Ethnological Museum of Barcelona and private collections, mainly from Folch’s collection which was given to the City Council in 2011. The Museum of World Cultures will display about 700 pieces from Asia, Africa, America and Oceania in permanent and temporary exhibitions. It will also host an educational area. The museum will occupy an area of 2,100 square meters and will cost approximately €5 million.
Business
Gas Natural Fenosa earns 407 million euros during the first quarter, 5.2% more than in 2011
The Catalan company counterbalanced its fall in the Spanish market with benefits from international sales. Foreign market activity contributed 42% of the profit from the first quarter to Gas Natural Fenosa, in contrast to 36.6% in 2011.