The workers’ assembly at the Pascual plant in Gurb has decided to call a strike on May 11 in response to what they consider a lack of dialogue from management. The workers denounce that the company has been refusing for months to open a collective bargaining process, while still failing to clarify how the planned closure for July will be carried out.
Sanoma, a Finnish group in education and media, has acquired the historic publishing house Vicens Vives. The transaction had been in the works for months due to the delicate situation faced by the family business, which for decades has been a benchmark in the Catalan educational world. According to a statement to the Helsinki Stock Exchange, the operation is valued at around 40 million euros and takes into account the value of the net debt, which would be close to 30 million euros, market sources indicate.
The CEO of Repsol, Josu Jon Imaz, has accused the market and competition regulator, CNMC, of “not doing its job” when it comes to identifying those responsible for the blackout that Spain suffered on April 28, 2025. “The regulator has chosen to spread confusion and open investigations into all companies for situations that are not even related to what happened with the blackout, and the only thing that has done is create confusion,” he said during the conference with analysts that the executive held this Thursday to present the company’s first-quarter results.
BBVA obtained a profit of 2.989 billion euros in the first quarter of the year, 11% more, after having managed to raise its profitability to 21.7% in terms of ROTE, which places it among the banks with the highest performance in one of the variables to which the sector pays the most attention.
The Catalan steel company Celsa considers its darkest period closed. This was confirmed by its president, Rafael Villaseca, and its CEO, Jordi Cazorla, during the presentation of the 2025 results held this Wednesday in Barcelona. After a 28-month transformation process, in which the court ordered the Rubiralta family to exit the capital and hand over the shares to the creditors, the group returned to profitability for the first time during the first quarter of this year 2026.
It’s the “paradox of effort.” This is how Marta Alcega, a member of the Associació Professional de Tècnics Tributaris de Catalunya i Balears (APttCB), summarizes it. In the income tax return, a self-employed person with an annual income of 10,000 euros faces a tax bill of 558 euros in the personal income tax settlement, while an employee with the same income pays nothing.
Nissan announced this Monday to the unions its intention to initiate an ERE (employment regulation file) that will affect its three centers in Catalonia: the technical center in Barcelona’s Zona Franca, the spare parts center in El Prat, and the flexible areas center – such as human resources or prevention – also in El Prat. The exact impact will be known in the coming weeks as negotiations progress, but the impact is greater than what the unions feared a few days ago, which pointed mainly to the spare parts center. In total, 569 people work in these centers. With this measure, Nissan deepens its industrial exit from Catalonia, where it closed its car assembly plant in 2021. Today the plant is occupied by Ebro.
Alfonso Gómez, until now responsible for Telefónica Hispanoamérica’s businesses, will be the new CEO of Movistar+ replacing Daniel Domenjó, who was one of Marc Murtra’s first hires at the company.
CaixaBank’s CEO, Gonzalo Gortázar, is aware of the enormous uncertainty generated by the war in Iran and the consequent blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, but he is confident in the “resilience” of the Spanish economy to overcome the blow.
Volkswagen Group España Distribución (VGED), responsible for distributing vehicles, parts and spare parts of several brands of the German giant in the country, is experiencing a sweet moment. Despite the challenges of the European automotive sector, it closed 2025 with record revenue figures. The Barcelona-based company achieved a turnover of 5,045 million euros, after growing 23% over last year, and breaks the 5,000 million mark for the first time.