Fira de Barcelona
| 2014 Report
Miquel Valls i Maseda
President of Chamber of Commerce
and Second Vice President of the
Fira de Barcelona General Council
Once more this year, the results generated
by Fira de Barcelona’s activities are satisfactory,
despite an economic climate that is still not
entirely favourable. Nonetheless, 2014 marked
the beginning of economic recovery and
all the indicators suggest that 2015 will see
the consolidation of this recovery. We at
the Chamber of Commerce are convinced
that the activity of Fira de Barcelona will
contribute to this.
Fira made such a contribution during the
years of economic difficulty and also in 2014,
when the organisation achieved record revenues
of 152 million euros, a 29% increase on 2013
and 32% more than in 2012, a comparable
year in terms of numbers of events. This
record revenue was achieved thanks to the
excellent positioning of the institution and its
fairs, its capacity to innovate and, basically, the
organisation of major international congresses
and corporate events. We do not only have such
huge events as the Mobile World Congress and
Alimentaria to thank for these results, however:
international congresses, particularly in the fields
of health and technology, also made decisive
contributions, as did the improved performance
of shows organised by Fira de Barcelona itself.
A powerful
platform
