Mercabarna
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Mercabarna is a public limited company founded in 1967 in Barcelona with the aim of ensuring the efficient and responsible supply chain of fresh food in the wholesale stage operation. Nowadays is a food city that operates 24 hours in a day with the aim of guaranteeing the supply of fresh food to the public. The facility houses more than 700 companies specialising in the distribution, preparation, importing and exporting of fresh and frozen products.
In the past, wholesale food markets were situated in central locations within the city of Barcelona and occupied buildings which are now used for important social, cultural and leisure facilities. The growth of the city and of its population led to problems of all kinds for these central markets in terms of capacity, communications, the environment and so forth. Gradually, therefore, they relocated to the Mercabarna precinct.
Markets
- Central Fruit and Vegetable Market
- Central Fish Market
- The Slaughterhouse
- Mercabarna-flor (located in Sant Boi de Llobregat, in a building next to Barcelona Airport)
The Complementary Activities Zone (ZAC)
- Companies specialising in the handling, ripening, preparation, packaging, conservation, distribution, importing and exporting of all types of fresh and frozen products.
- The purchasing centres of the large food distribution chains (supermarkets, greengrocer chains, etc.) that source their fresh produce in Mercabarna.
- Companies that specialise in supplying the catering industry.
- Logistics companies specialising in food and other support services: large cold-chain logistic operators, transport companies, quality control laboratories, packaging companies, auto repair shops, banks, restaurants, hotels, petrol stations, day-care centres, chemists, IT companies, courier services, consulting firms, hardware stores, etc.