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Sustainable team-building events that promote employee development, training, motivation and retention. That’s the idea behind Le Monnier & Co, a Barcelona-based company that specialises in creating high-impact experiences and activities tailored to each client’s needs through gaming

Marta Aranyó made a career change at the age of 50, when she left her salaried industry job to launch her own business devoted to painting, her passion. Major changes aren’t easy at certain points in life. But sometimes it’s worth taking a risk to make dreams come true. That was

The conscientious jewellery movement is growing in Barcelona, with a focus on choosing trusted suppliers and exploring new ways to be more sustainable. One of the long-standing problems of the jewellery business has been the origins of its raw materials. They often come from developing countries wi

Its lúpulus cheese won the bronze medal at the World Cheese Awards in 2022, and its garrotxa and vell reserva goat cheeses picked up two more prizes at France’s Mondial du Fromage (Cheese World Cup) in 2023. Not a bad first showing for Muntanyola at the cheese world’s most prestig

Carrying on a fading tradition. was Maria Costa’s motivation for bringing back the trade of the escairador, the miller who removes the husks from grains. This profession had nearly been lost in the Berguedà region but her father still carried on. And so Maria got to work. She made a ca

Resilient local food sourcing systems are the only guarantee that we can continue eating quality products. This is the guiding principle behind Slow Food Barcelona. The Slow Food organisation was founded in Italy in the mid-1980s and has become a standard-bearer of the global food sovereignty moveme