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Mercabarna Expands Training Offer for Companies

Mercabarna’s Training Area offers a wide variety of training courses to Food Unit businesses. The courses are aimed at both managers and employees, enabling them either to learn new skills or to update their knowledge and awareness of techniques and trends.

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Postgraduate Course on Wholesale Food Business Management to be Offered Again

In October, the postgraduate course on Wholesale Food Company Management will be offered for the sixth time.

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Interview with Ana Sancho, manager of the Barcelona Food Bank

Intense. This is how Ana Sancho describes the three months she has been at the helm of the Food Bank. The economic downturn shows no end in sight and this non-profit foundation –which collects surplus food products, to distribute them to the needy people around us– sees how, day by day, the food demand only increases. For this reason, the solidarity of companies such as those of Mercabarna is fundamental.

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Interview with David Vázquez, Humana Area Manager in Catalonia

How often have you wondered what to do with the clothing you no longer use but you feel bad about throwing away because it’s still good as new? The humanitarian organisation Humana, which has had clothing drop-off containers in Mercabarna since 2007 (next to the florist’s in the commercial area), offers a good alternative for making supportive use of such garments.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Summer Flowers Exhibition at Mercabarna-flor

Mercabarna-flor and the Association of Wholesale Businesspeople (AEM) hosted a new thematic demonstration on 7 June aimed at providing florists with new ideas and suggestions on designing floral arrangements to step up sales. This time the event was dedicated to summer flowers and plants.

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