Barcelona is now a magnet for international talent. In the past few years some of the world’s leading multinational companies have chosen the Catalan capital as a base thanks to the city’s low cost of living, cheap rents and competitive salaries as well as its excellent infrastructure and the unparalleled lifestyle it can offer its employees.

The 22@district in Poblenou is a hub for technological innovation and is also home to research centers and numerous start-ups. Thanks to a rise in the number of workers (estimated at around 100,000 since its launch in 2000), this regenerated area, and other districts where multinationals are based, have seen notable increases in the numbers of people looking to buy and rent.

Here we look at some of the multinational companies in Barcelona, all of which add to the city’s dynamism and enhance the city’s role as a leading player in attracting talent from all over the world. If you are interested on them and you want to live next to them, here we have a list of luxury apartments for sale in Barcelona.

Top International Companies in Barcelona

Amazon

US e-commerce giant Amazon has based one of its five logistics centers in Spain in El Prat de Llobregat, close to Barcelona’s airport. Measuring 60,000 square meters, the center employs around 1,500 people.

The company’s artificial intelligence investigation center, the seller support hub and the support center for Southern SMEs are all located in the 22@district and its Prime Now center is situated in Eixample. Its latest distribution center is located in Barberà del Vallès, where it is currently pioneering ‘Pegasus’, a robot used to achieve greater efficiency in the distribution process. Catalonia is also home to Amazon’s logistics warehouse in Martorelles and another logistics center specialized in Amazon Pantry in Castellbisbal.

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Facebook

Facebook’s center of operations for combatting ‘fake news’ (Competence Call Centre or CCC) has been based in the Torre Glories – the skyscraper designed by the architect Jean Nouvel – since the beginning of 2018. The social media giant takes up eight floors of this emblematic building and employs around 500 workers.

Owned by Merlin Properties, who bought the tower from the Agbar group for €142 million, the tower underwent a recent €15 million refurbishment. The main goal of Facebook’s Competence Call Centre is to remove hate speech, violent content and fake news from its pages.

eDreams ODIGEO

Launched 20 years ago, eDreams is now part of the ODIGEO group and is Europe’s largest online travel agency and one of the world’s largest ecommerce businesses.

Under its four online travel agency brands – eDreams, GO Voyages, Opodo, Travellink and the search engine ‘Liligo’ – eDreams ODIGEO claims to offer the best deals in flights, hotels, cruises, car rentals, holiday packages and travel insurance. It currently reaches around 18 million customers across 46 markets. Based in Carrer de Bailèn, in Eixample, eDreams ODIGEO is also listed on the Spanish Stock Market.

King

This multinational tech company, responsible for more than 20 video games including Candy Crush and Farm Heroes, has its European Headquarters in the 22@ district. Their offices occupy six floors (6,700 square meters) of a building owned by Colonial and the company currently employs around 600 people of 45 different nationalities.

King are one of 140 video game companies based in Barcelona, which together employ around 3,000 young people covering a range of skills including marketing, finance, design and programming. Every month, an estimated 260 million people play games created by King on their mobile phones.

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Aside from technology entities, Barcelona is also home to US co-working company WeWork, insurance company Zurich, pharmaceutical business Roche, credit card company Visa, sports equipment shop Decathlon, food giants Nestlé, Carrefour and Lidl, which has a new center of excellence for customer service and digital business management in the old BBVA building in Plaça Catalunya, employing 250 staff.

There are also many more international companies either already based or planning to relocate to Barcelona, all wanting a piece of the talent and lifestyle that the Catalan capital offers.

Top International Companies in Barcelona

Amazon

Facebook

eDreams ODIGEO

King

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