Amazon has a complex sales system through which it markets products from sellers and also, under the same umbrella, its own. It is one of the ecommerce operators that handles the largest volume of vendor data and the Commission believes that it may have used it to compete with its smaller suppliers. How does […]
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Carlos Catalán, vice president of AC Hotels by Marriot, dies at 44
The AC Hotels by Marriot group has announced this Tuesday the death of Carlos Catalán Heredero, vice president of the hotel group since 2000, at the age of 44, after a long illness. Carlos Catalán (Tudela, 1976), o “Charlie Marriot”, as he was affectionately nicknamedHe was the only one of the six children of the […]
Thermomix takes Lidl’s kitchen robot to court
Starting this Tuesday, the Mercantile Court number 5 of Barcelona will be the scene of a legal battle over kitchen robots. But not because of its effectiveness in making succulent stews, but because of the permits to sell an electrical appliance of these characteristics in Spain. The Vorwerk business group, which has the Spanish patent, […]
Calviño defends the salary increase for civil servants, because it helps to “recover consumption and activity”
The Economic Vice President, Nadia Calviao, has shown “surprise” by the criticism of the governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernandez de Cos, to the generalized rise in salaries for civil servants and has defended the measure because, among other factors, it will favor this group, seeing themselves with more income, increase their consumption […]
Iberdrola will double its renewable capacity in six years with 75,000 million in investments
Iberdrola accelerates in the ‘green race’ with the aim of doubling its power generation power through renewable energy in the next six years. The group that leads Ignacio Galán today presented an investment plan for 75,000 million euros aimed at achieving this goal. This figure implies going from investing 7,000 million a year in 2019 […]
The Eurogroup rules out new stimuli in the face of the second wave and recalls that there are hundreds of billions in unused credits
All the support, solidarity and concern, but no more money. With Europe half knocked out by the second wave of the virus, and confinements hardening every day from north to south and east to west, countries like Espia they want to reopen the debate on if the amount approved in the spring to mitigate the […]
China prepares for its great leap forward in pursuit of self-reliance
For four days, the most powerful people of the second world power have met in a hotel west of Beijing to decide the future of the country. Although the hermetic inner doors of Chinese politics were closed again. It is not known whether there have been internal disagreements in the debates. And only a few […]
Education, Equality, Defense … These are the Budgets for 2021 item by item
Today the draft law of the General State Budgets for the year 2021 has been presented, those that should promote the economic recovery after the pandemic. This document includes the announced tax increases such as personal income tax on incomes greater than 200,000 euros or the so-called green taxation, with which the Executive estimates that […]
They create a sustainable violin without wood from endangered species
You can already play music feeling that you are ecological. A Catalan company has developed an unprecedented violin made of natural fibers and carbon that dispenses with the usual noble woods, some in danger of extinction; without losing physical or acoustic qualities. The violin is the first of the instruments that can already be purchased […]
The pandemic triggers the shopping basket in the supermarket by almost 3%
The pandemic has triggered the prices of basic food products in supermarkets. In fact, the shopping cart type (includes fresh, packaged, hygiene and drugstore) 2.8% more expensive compared to last year, according to the annual study of supermarkets carried out by the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU). According to this analysis, the months of […]