Foreigners driving the 20% of companies that NCB custody

The advice and tutelage municipal new business ventures through the body Barcelona hotels Activa made possible the creation of 720 businesses over 2007. One fifth of them, as well as the 1,512 jobs generated (an average of 2.1 per company), promoted foreign citizens, 42% from Latin America and 40% in Europe. Jordi William Carnes, third deputy mayor, said yesterday that the significant presence of non-Spanish entrepreneurs is consistent with the growing foreign population of the city and with the same socio-economic attractiveness of this.

Among the activities that develop the set of entrepreneurs seeking and obtaining the support municipal highlight culture, tourism and leisure, with 20.3%, personal services, 18.5%, and trade, 17.6%. Then, although remote, are business services, with 11.6%, information technology and communication, 8.3%, and creative production, 7.7%.

The study presented yesterday by Barcelona hotels Active also said that last year tutelaron 1,189 projects and that 60% of the proposals would constitute a business in the next 12 months. The new promoters are divided almost equally between men (51%) and females (49%), with a majority of those between 25 and 40 years (70%).

The agency also provided economic municipal vocational training to 6,572 people, 45% of which are active and they were looking for an improvement work. In addition, 10,886 high school students and compulsory training cycles participated in vocational guidance on the more than 700 occupations new or transformation Porta program, which recorded 22.