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Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................6

The Spanish language ...................................................................................................................................10

Business leadership ......................................................................................................................................14

Technologies for producing and managing energy..................................................................14 Infrastructure sector ........................................................................................................................21 Railway and high-speed infrastructures ................................................................................... 25 Aerospace technology ......................................................................................................................27 Naval technology .............................................................................................................................. 30 Automotive sector ........................................................................................................................... 30 Financial and insurance sector .....................................................................................................31 Information and communication technologies ....................................................................... 32 Other services ....................................................................................................................................33 Health technologies ........................................................................................................................ 34 Environmental technologies ..........................................................................................................37 Other industrial sectors .................................................................................................................40 Distribution and fashion industry ............................................................................................... 42 Habitat sector ................................................................................................................................... 42 Publishing industry ......................................................................................................................... 43 Post-graduate education and professional training ................................................................ 43 Agriculture sector ............................................................................................................................44 Tourism and gastronomy ............................................................................................................... 46 Sports .................................................................................................................................................. 47

INDEX


Spain is the fourth economy in the Eurozo-ne, the fifth in the European Union and the world´s thirteenth largest economy by GDP.

It is the eleventh largest investor in the world, with a Foreign Direct Investment stock abroad of 640,312 million dollars (UNCTAD, WIR, 2012) which represents 3% of global in-vestment, and the world´s second largest in-vestor in Latin America, only after the United States.

Furthermore, Spain has one of the world's largest infrastructure networks placed among the world´s top ten countries with the best quality in this field, according to the “Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013” (World Economic Forum). It has the world's second largest high-speed railway network (trailing only China), of around 2,900 km in length, the most extensive in Europe, as well as the most modern and technologically advanced train fleet in Europe. It also has the top Euro-pean motorway and highway network. Spain is also Europe's third leading country by pas-senger air traffic and fourth in maritime go-ods transport, with three of its ports among Europe's top 10 (Cargo Systems).

Spain is one of the world's economies with the fewest restrictions on Foreign Direct In-vestment (FDI). According to OECD's 2012 FDI Restrictiveness Index, it is the sixth most open country to Foreign Investment. Also the annual report by the consulting firm Ernst & Young places Spain among the world's twen-ty least protectionist countries.

Spain is one of Europe's largest markets, with 47 million consumers, who add to the more than 57.9 million tourists who visit the coun-try each year. Its relevant geostrategic posi-tion for access to markets of great potential increases the Spanish economy's appeal as an investment destination: an EU member, a bridge between Africa and Europe, and key to reinforcing relations with Latin America through its economic, cultural and language links, with access to 1.3 billion consumers.

All this explains why Spain is the world´s nin-th economy in terms of Foreign Direct Inves-tment inflow (634,532 million dollars, accor-ding to the most recent report by UNCTAD, World Investment Report, July 2012, stock data). In fact over 8,600 foreign companies are established in Spain, resulting in emplo-

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yment for more than 1.2 million people and a turnover of just above 400 billion Euros a year (Spanish Statistical Office, September 2012).

Spain is the seventh largest exporter of com-mercial services in the world, with a 3.04% global share, and the fourth in the EU, as well as being seventeenth in the world for exporting goods. Since 1999, Spain has been a leading European country for increase in exports, well above Italy, France and the Uni-ted Kingdom. Since that year, Spain's share in international trade has fallen only by two tenths of a percentage point, from 1.9% to 1.7%, the smallest reduction in the major EU economies. This contrasts with the losses ex-perienced by other countries as a result of the entry into the market of the emerging coun-tries.

In the past twenty years, Spanish companies have embarked on a concerted internationa-lisation process. At present, 62.4% of the tur-nover of the IBEX 35 companies is generated abroad and in some cases attains higher per-centages, close even to 100%.

Spanish companies are among the world's leaders in sectors of high added value and major growth potential such as infrastructure management, the electricity sector, renewa-ble energies, logistics, oil refining, high-speed railways, the financial sector, security, auto-motive sector, biotechnology, environmental technologies, water treatment, aerospace, naval technology, information and commu-nication technologies, health technology, e-health and electronic administration. Spain is also a global benchmark in the field of the so-cial economy. Moreover, Spanish companies are also world leaders in mature sectors, like fashion, agrifood and tourism.

According to OECD figures, major Spanish companies are among the most productive internationally. They have demonstrated that they are ready to compete at the highest level, as is reflected by the fact that Spanish firms are now established and provide different services in a wide variety of sectors world-wide:

A Spanish company runs Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow; Spanish societies build and run many subway lines in the world's

great cities (New York, Mexico, Panama, Mia-mi, Rome etc.); a Spanish company distribu-tes electricity to 120 million people in Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil; and a third of the world's air traffic, including 100% of German air space and re-cently 60% of the Chinese skies, is managed through systems developed and implemen-ted by a Spanish firm.

Spain's industrial fabric is highly diversified:

The largest corporation in the world's texti-le sector, with over 6,000 shops spread over the five continents, is Spanish. So are the world's top company in renewable energies, the world's largest cooperative group and the world's leading firms in olive oil and rice pro-duction.

If we consider the infrastructure sector, Spa-nish companies head the world ranking for transport infrastructure management, opera-ting almost 40% of the most important con-cessions in the world (272 transport infras-tructures), with the leading three companies in the world and six of the top ten being Spa-nish. The most important infrastructure pro-ject in the Arab world is being undertaken by a Spanish consortium and many engineering works, such as the expansion of the Panama Canal, one of the largest international civil engineering works, is being carried out by consortia led by Spanish companies.

Spain is also present in such important sec-tors as health, in which one of its companies is the world leader in the production of plas-ma-derived medicines, considered strategic in countries like the United States. Moreover, the world's number one cancer research cen-tre in terms of publications of high scientific quality and their impact and ninth in bio-medical research is also Spanish (SCImago 2011).

Two of the world's major financial institu-tions are Spanish, as is the top European te-lecommunications company in terms of reve-nue volume. Likewise, two of the world's top ten business schools are Spanish.

Creativity, organisational capacity, endea-vour and dedication are values which have enabled Spanish companies to occupy the above leadership positions.

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Nevertheless, it is not only in the business field that Spain holds an important position in the world. Spain is also a caring country, demonstrated by it boasting the world's hig-hest rate of organ donors over the past twen-ty one years, through its active development cooperation and humanitarian work and through the work of its Armed Forces in ma-jor projects relating to international security and stability.

Spain also possesses a rich historical and cul-tural heritage. It has the second most World Heritage sites (UNESCO) and some cultural and creative industries of the highest order, together with a language which displays extraordinary international presence and constant growth. Around 500 million people speak Spanish in the world making it the se-cond most widely-spoken native language, behind only Mandarin Chinese and ahead of English. It is also the second language of in-ternational communication.

Spain is also a world power in tourism. It is the second leading country in the world for tourist revenue, behind only the United Sta-tes, Europe's most visited country and the fourth in the world. It is also recognised glo-bally for its quality of life.

The following pages provide a more detailed analysis of the positions occupied by Spain and its companies in the diverse sectors of economic activity. It does not include every sector or mention every company with a pro-minent position, but it does represent a very significant sample which will be completed in forthcoming editions.

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THE SPANISH LANGUAGE

The Spanish language is one of the country's principal assets. It grows daily in every di-mension: as a native language, as an acquired language, as a language of universal culture, as a language of international communication and as a language of transcontinental econo-mic exchange. Its image is associated with the dissemination of an international culture of quality.

1 Spanish is the world's second most wi-dely-spoken native or mother tongue, behind only Mandarin Chinese and ahead of English (3rd), Hindi (4th) and Arabic (5th). Fore-casts indicate that Spanish will maintain its position as the world's second most widely spoken native language.

2 More than 495 million people speak Spa-nish in the world (7% of the global popula-tion), either as a mother tongue (native com-mand), a second language (limited command) or because they study it as a foreign language.

3 By 2030, there will be 535 million Spanish speakers (7.5% of the global population) and 550 million by 2050.

4 It is the second language of international communication, after English.

5 It is also the world's second most stu-died foreign language. Over nineteen million people study Spanish as a foreign language in eighty three countries where it is not an offi-cial language, together with the twenty one where it is. The United States has the grea-test number, with over six million and a 60% growth estimated over the coming years.

6 Spanish is the third most used language on the internet (7.8% of total users) behind only English (26.8%) and Chinese (24.2%). Howe-ver, if we consider that Chinese is a language which, in general, is only spoken by natives, Spanish is the second language of internet communication behind English.

7 It is the language which has experienced the greatest growth in internet use (807.4% in the past decade compared with 301.4% recor-ded by English), above all as a consequence of the incorporation of Latin American users onto the Web.


8 Spanish is the official language in twenty one countries on three continents: Europe (Spain), America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chi-le, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Do-minican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela) and Africa (Equatorial Guinea), and also in Puerto Rico. It is also spoken in a further fifty countries without it being the official language.

9 Spanish is one of the six official langua-ges of the United Nations. The other five are English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic and Russian.

The United States is the leading non-Spanish speaking country with the largest Spanish-speaking population. Spanish is the second most widely-spoken language after English, with over fifty million speakers. The Spanish language is spoken in 12% of the country's homes. With over 900,000 stu-dents, it is also the foreign language which is most studied.

The United States is the world's second country in terms of its Spanish-speaking po-pulation, behind only Mexico.

▸ By 2050, the United States will surpass Mexico as the world's largest Spanish-spea-king country, with 132.8 million Hispanics (30% of its population).

▸ Two thirds of American university stu-dents study Spanish as a foreign language. Moreover for university students, Spain is the second most popular destination country for completing their studies, only after the Uni-ted Kingdom.

▸ Spanish is a curriculum subject in 90% of primary and secondary schools.

▸ The Cervantes Institute has just been ope-ned at Harvard University, the oldest North American university which is ranked the world's best.

In the next three or four generations, 10% of the global population will communicate in Spanish.

The Prince of Asturias Foundation has convened since 1981 the Prince of Asturias Awards, annually presented by H.R.H. The Prince of Asturias. Nowadays, more that thirty years later, they are considered one of the most internationally renowned awards.


Spanish also occupies leading places in so-cial media. On Twitter, it is the second most used language after English. On Facebook, the number of users is eight hundred million.

The “GDP of Spanish” in the world would be 4.5 billions (millions of millions) dollars: It is estimated that 15% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a State is linked to its lan-guage. The number of speakers, their purcha-sing power and the international nature of a language are the three key factors which es-tablish the economic power of one language compared to another.

A common language is a multiplying fac-tor for trade between those countries which share it. The sharing of Spanish between twenty one countries increases bilateral tra-de by 195%.

The Cervantes Institute is present in eighty six cities in forty three countries from the five continents as well as on the inter-net through the Cervantes Virtual Centre. It shows an annual growth of 8% in the num-ber of registrations of Spanish students. The Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Spanish Language Academies, comprising twenty two institutions in three continents, also perform a key role in the defence, unity and integrity of the Spanish language.

There are a total of 2,180 Spanish de-partments in the universities of one hun-dred and sixteen countries, excluding Spain. The five countries with the most Spanish departments are: the United States (1,054), Brazil (95), the United Kingdom (75), Ger-many (64) and Italy (62). The total number of Hispanists is 10,329 in one hundred and four countries, excluding Spain. The five coun-tries with the most Hispanists are the United States (5,498), Germany (463), France (421), Japan (375) and the United Kingdom (317).

The world's only historical archive to have been declared of World Heritage by UNESCO is a Spanish archive, the General Archive of the Indies. Spain possesses one of the most important documentary heritages in the Western world. The Simancas Archive was the world's first purpose-built archive, the architect being Juan de Herrera in the time of Philip II (1572).

Spaniards have won seven Nobel Prizes, five in Literature and two in Medicine.

The Prince of Asturias Prizes and Cervan-tes Prizes enjoy great international prestige.



TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRODUCING AND MANAGING ENERGY

A. RENEWABLE ENERGIES

Spain is a world leader in this field. It has an industrial network with companies which are prominent in the international arena, established worldwide and heavy investors in R&D&I. This has given them a competi-tive advantage compared with the rest of the world:

▸ Spain is Europe's leading generator of wind power and the fourth worldwide in terms of installed capacity (approximately 22,800 MW at the end of 2012).

▸ It has the third largest capacity in photo-voltaic solar power in Europe and the fourth in the world, level with the USA.

▸ It has the world's largest installed solar

thermal power capacity (1,950 MW, at De-cember 2012), with power plants using the four available technologies: tower, parabo-lic- trough, fresnel and discs on a commercial scale. Spanish companies carry out 73% of the projects in the world.

▸ It is the sixth leading primary energy pro-ducer in the European Union of biomass.

▸ It is the EU's third leading country in insta-lled hydroelectric power (13,226 MW).

▸ The world´s leading company in renewa-ble energies is Spanish. It is also one of the world's five leading electricity companies.

▸ The company with the world's largest ins-talled photovoltaic capacity is Spanish.

▸ The world's leading companies in the ther-moelectric sector are also Spanish.

▸ The world's fourth wind turbine manufac-turer, by market share in 2011, is Spanish.

Detailed analysis of energy types is as follows:

BUSINESS LEADERSHIP


Wind Power

Spain is the European leader in wind power generation and the fourth in installed power (22,800 MW at the end of 2012) in the world. It also has a thriving industrial fabric, with a presence throughout the world, especially in the USA, China, Latin America, India, South Korea, Australia, North Africa and the rest of the EU.

1 The world's leading producer of renewa-ble energies, principally wind energy, with an installed capacity of over 6,000 MW in Spain and over 14,000 MW in the world at the end of March 2013, is a Spanish com-pany, IBERDROLA, which is present both in onshore and offshore farms. It is one of the world's five largest electricity compa-nies, with activities in forty countries in four continents and distributing electricity to 120 million people. IBERDROLA invests 145 million Euros a year in R&D&I, making it Europe's second largest private investor of this type.

▸ It is the leading producer of wind power

worldwide and the second biggest player in the USA.

▸ It is one of the leading operators in the United Kingdom following its acquisition of Scottish Power. It has one of Europe's largest onshore wind farms in Whitelee, Scotland, with a capacity of over 500 MW, sufficient to provide electricity to 300,000 homes

▸ It is Brazil's top electricity company in terms of number of customers, through its subsidiaries Neoenergia and Elektro.

▸ It is the leading private energy generator in Mexico, with 5,000 MW capacity, and the country's second electricity producer.

▸ It is at the forefront in Offshore Wind Farms technologies, having built and deve-loped some of the world's largest farms: East Anglia (7,200 MW) and West of Duddon Sands (389 MW) in the UK, Saint Brieuc (500 MW) in France and Wikinger (400 MW) in Germany.

2 The world's fourth manufacturer of wind

Groton Wind Farm, New Hampshire (USA) managed by the Spanish firm Iberdrola, the world's leading producer of wind power.


turbines in terms of market share is also a Spanish company, GAMESA. It is one of the world's technological leaders in wind turbi-ne design, installation and maintenance with 30,000 MW installed in thirty countries. It is also a global benchmark in the wind farm promotion, building and sales market.

3 The world's sixth company in wind power installation is ACCIONA, which is also Spa-nish. It is present in the entire value chain of wind power, from wind turbine design and manufacture to the development, building, exploitation, operation and maintenance of farms. It is the world's second leading com-pany in terms of number of countries with assets.

▸ It is the leading wind power producer in Mexico and it runs Latin America's largest complex with this technology.

4 Other companies, such as TECNALIA, NAVANTIA, INGETEAM, GESTAMP WIND, ORMAZÁBAL, IDESA, VICINAY

CADENAS and BARLOVENTO, are also pro-minent in this sector. Special mention should be made of technology centres like CENER, IRCE or the IREC, which participate in key R&D&I projects for improving the competiti-veness of wind power technology at a global level. Technological advances are continuous and some of the leading manufacturers like GAMESA and ACCIONA have developed new competitive prototypes which are also adapted to the offshore environment.

Photovoltaic Solar Power

Spain is Europe's third most important coun-try in terms of installed capacity and the fourth in the world, level with the US. Spa-nish companies embrace all the activities related to the industry, covering the entire silicon production chain and all the electro-nic processes for producing polysilicon, in-gots, wafers, cells and modules. In the field of concentrated solar energy, Spain is the world's leading country in terms of installed

Solar-thermal plant SOLANA in Arizo-na (USA), under construction, by the Spanish company ABENGOA, will be the world's largest solar power plant. It will store 6 hours of thermal energy, which enables energy production in cloudy periods and after sunset and will avoid the emission into the atmosphere of 475,000 tons of CO2 a year.


capacity of commercial systems, with a very strong associated industry at a global level. In 2011, Spain had the largest market share in the world, with 65% of the total, followed by the USA and Australia. There are approxima-tely thirty centres (universities, private and public centres) which are devoted to R&D in photovoltaic energy.

1 The leading company in photovoltaic ins-talled capacity is Spanish, ISOLUX CORSÁN, which is present in thirty countries.

▸ It has built the largest installation in Euro-pe, specifically in Italy.

▸ Beyond Europe, its powerful presence may be noted in India, where it launched its se-cond large photovoltaic plant.

2 One of the world's largest photovoltaic so-lar plants is built and operated in Portugal by a Spanish company, ACCIONA. It is currently planning to build one in South Africa which will double the previous one in size.

3 The world's top manufacturer of the Si-licon metal is also a Spanish company, FE-RROATLÁNTICA, a 100% subsidiary of the VILLAR MIR GROUP.

Solar -Thermal Power

Spain has the world's largest installed capa-city (1,950 MW), with power plants using the four available technologies: tower, parabolic-trough, fresnel and disc on a commercial scale.

The world's top companies in the solar ther-mal sector are Spanish. Heavy investment in R&D&I has led to the development of cutting-edge technology in the world. Spanish firms currently participate in 64% of the world's solar thermal projects under construction.

1 The Spanish company ABENGOA is the world's top company in the solar thermal sec-tor, with the following key achievements:

▸ The world's first concentrating solar power plant (CSP) using tower technology on a commercial scale was built in 2006 by ABEN-GOA, which is also the owner of the world's largest commercial tower in operation, the PS20.

▸ The world's first commercial plants using parabolic-trough collector technology are Spanish, including those of SOLANA (Arizo-na) and MOJAVE (California) in the United States. SOLANA will be the world's largest solar plant. It will store six hours of thermal energy, which enables energy production in cloudy periods and after sunset and will avoid the emission into the atmosphere of 475,000 tons of CO2 a year.

▸ The world's two largest solar towers in Ca-lifornia, the Palen Solar Electric Generating System platform, which will provide enough power to meet the demand of 200,000 homes and avoid the emission of seventeen million tons of CO2 during its life cycle, will be built by ABENGOA in consortium with America's Bright Source Energy.

▸ The largest plant in the Middle East, Shams-1 (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)which uses parabolic-trough technology, was also built by ABENGOA for a consortium comprising the UAE's Masdar, France's To-tal and ABENGOA itself, which will also be responsible for its management and mainte-nance.

▸ The first two solar thermal plants in South Africa, one with parabolic trough collector technology and the other with tower techno-logy are also being built by ABENGOA.

2 ACS-COBRA is the world's third company in solar thermal power.

3 ACCIONA is the fifth largest company in the world in the solar thermal sector. It is a global pioneer, with the launching in 2007 of what was the world's largest solar thermal plant in the Nevada desert (USA), Nevada So-lar One.

4 SENER has constructed the world's first commercial scale power plant to apply cen-tral tower receiver and molten salt heat sto-rage technology in a central tower configura-tion with a heliostat field.

▸ The Gemasolar Plant, run by TORRESOL ENERGY, has a fifteen hour storage capacity, which enables it to continue producing elec-tricity without sunshine, either at night or when it is cloudy. Therefore, at certain times of the year, the plant is capable of generating

Spain is Europe's leading generator of wind power and the fourth worldwide in terms of installed capacity. It has the third largest capacity in photovoltaic solar power in Europe and the fourth in the world. Spain has the world's largest installed solar thermal power capacity.


electricity uninterruptedly for up to 24 hours. Storage allows a clean source like solar power to become manageable.

▸ It is also a global leader in the sector of concentrated solar power (CSP), both for the development of cutting-edge technology and for the number of projects in the pipe-line.

▸ 21% of the world's solar thermal plants em-ploy SENER technology and 20% of the MW produced in the world comes from power plants which apply technology developed by SENER.

5 ABANTIA and COMSA have designed and built the world's first hybrid biomass-thermosolar power plant on a commercial scale, the Borges Solar Thermal Plant. This will enable continuous 24/7 electricity gene-ration.

6 The world's most prestigious publicly-led CSP Research Centre, the ALMERIA SOLAR PLATFORM, is Spanish.

7 The world's most important private con-centrating solar research centre, the ABEN-GOA SOLUCAR PLATFORM in Seville, is also Spanish.

8 Many Spanish companies also form part of the industrial fabric of the solar thermal market through the manufacture of key com-ponents, like RIOGLASS SOLAR, the manu-facturer of mirrors for solar thermal plants. It occupies a key position in the world's mirror market.

Biofuels

1 One of the world's largest producers of bioethanol and the only company with a pre-sence in the sector's three leading markets (US, EU and Brazil), is a Spanish company, ABENGOA BIOENERGÍA. The level of re-sources devoted by the company to techno-logical innovation is particularly significant, having made it a technological leader in fields like cellulosic bioethanol production.

2 One of Europe's top biodiesel producers is INFINITA RENOVABLES, with installed capacity of almost a million tonnes a year.

Other important companies are BIO-OILS and ACCIONA.

Biomass

1 Spain is the sixth leading primary energy producer in the European Union and posses-ses technological and industrial experience in most of the subsectors within this field, from obtaining resources to producing fuels, technologies and applications, both thermal and electric.

Hydroelectric Power

Spain is third leading country in the Euro-pean Union in terms of installed hydroelec-tricity capacity (13,226 MW).

1 IBERDROLA is one of the world's top hydroelectricity generators, with over 10,000 MW of installed capacity in Spain, Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Network Management

1 The globally pioneering centre for op-timising the way renewable energies are in-tegrated into the grid, especially wind power, the CECRE (Control Centre of Renewable Energies), was created by a Spanish com-pany, RED ELÉCTRICA ESPAÑOLA. Spain has become the first country worldwide to have a control centre for all their wind farms of over 10 MW.

The CECRE connects all the wind farms with capacity in excess of 10 MW and can monitor wind power generation in real time and integrate the maximum amount of this power without any risk to the electricity system. It sends timely instructions to wind generators to reduce their output or discon-nect when the stipulated safety threshold has been exceeded, while also calculating loss margins in the event of disconnection due to power dips.

2 IBERDROLA runs over a million kilo-metres of power lines in the United Kingdom, Spain, the United States and Brazil. From the Renewable Energies Operation Centres (CORE) located in Toledo (Spain), Portland

Spain is the sixth leading primary energy producer in the European Union and the third in terms of installed hydroelectricity capacity.


(USA) and Glasgow (United Kingdom), the company monitors and operates all its world's wind farms, with a total of 14,000 MW.

3 ACCIONA has the world's largest con-trol centre for renewable energy facilities, from which it manages over 9,000 MW pro-duced by wind farms, hydroelectric power plants, photovoltaic and solar thermal plants and biomass plants, spread across the five continents.

B. ELECTRICITY AND GAS

1 IBERDROLA is one of the world's five largest electricity companies.

2 ENDESA controls the largest private electricity group in Latin America through Enersis, supplying electricity in five of Latin America's six largest metropolitan areas: Bo-gota, Lima, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago.

▸ It is the leading electricity operator in Peru, Colombia, Chile and Argentina, and one of the largest electricity companies in Brazil.

▸ It is a benchmark in electric car develop-ment, leading the development of one of the largest launch pads for electric mobility in Malaga's Smart City in conjunction with Mit-subishi and Hitachi.

3 The largest international electrical transmission and distribution contractor for the sixth consecutive year, according to the Engineering News Record (ENR) ranking, “International Contractors”, is a Spanish company, ABEINSA ABENGOA. It is buil-ding the largest direct-current transmission line in Brazil, which in turn is one of the world's largest.

4 The world's top cogeneration company is also a Spanish firm, ABEINSA ABENGOA, according to the ENR ranking “International Contractors”. It is also the leading solar ener-gy contractor and is placed in the world's top five in operations and maintenance activities (O&M).

5 Other Spanish firms occupy leading po-

sitions in the installation and maintenance of high-voltage electricity transmission and distribution lines. ISOLUX-CORSÁN is one of the world's leading operators, with over 10,000 kilometres of lines constructed and in the installation phase in the United States, Latin America and Africa. COBRA, ELEC-NOR and SENER are also prominent in the sector.

6 Latin America's leading and largest inte-grated natural gas and electricity firm is also Spanish, GAS NATURAL FENOSA. It opera-tes in over twenty five countries, has an insta-lled capacity of 15,500 MW worldwide and is the leading gas distribution operator in Latin America.

▸ It is the only integrated gas and electricity company in Mexico and the leading natural gas distributor.

▸ It is building a hydroelectric plant in Costa Rica which will make it the country's largest private electricity producer.

▸ It is one of the world's leading liquefied na-tural gas (LNG) companies and a benchmark operator in the Atlantic and Mediterranean basins.

7 The world's largest research centre de-voted to fusion power will be built by a Spa-nish company, FERROVIAL, in consortium with the VINCI Group and RAZEL-BEC.

8 The world's first installed offshore gas terminal, the Liquefied Natural Gas storage caisson for the Adriatic Coast, which also holds the European record for the largest sli-ding surface, was built by a Spanish company, ACCIONA.

9 One of China's most important liquefied natural gas terminals was also built by a Spa-nish company, TÉCNICAS REUNIDAS.

Europe's leading regasification plant is owned by a Spanish company, ENAGAS, the company with the most facilities of this type in Europe.

The construction of the MEDGAZ gas pipeline, one of the world's two deepest marine gas pipelines with the greatest dia-meter, is run by a Spanish company, CEPSA.

A Spanish corporation is one of the world's five largest electricity companies in the world. The first and largest integrated natural gas and electricity firm in Latin America is also Spanish.


It connects Algeria and Spain and reaches a depth of 2,000 metres in the Mediterranean.

C. OIL

1 Europe's leading company for enginee-ring and turnkey refinery construction, the third in the Middle East and the sixth in the world, is Spanish, TECNICAS REUNIDAS, in spite of the country not being a crude oil producer.

▸ It is one of the leading contractors in the oil and gas sector of the Gulf oil industry.

2 Europe's largest refinery, in Turkey, is being built by a Spanish firm, TÉCNICAS REUNIDAS, as is Russia's largest hydrocrac-ker in the Volgograd Refinery, for Lukoil, one of the world's leading oil companies.

3 The Spanish company REPSOL is one of the world's top ten private oil companies. It

is present in thirty countries and strategica-lly located in the world's most hydrocarbon-prolific zones.

▸ It is the oil and gas company which in the past five years has carried out five of the world's most important hydrocarbon disco-veries and the largest hydrocarbon field in Brazil.

▸ It is the leading company in the Peruvian refining market.

▸ It is one of the leading suppliers of avia-tion fuels to commercial airlines worldwi-de.

▸ It owns Europe's most modern diesel fac-tory, located in Cartagena, Spain.

▸ Repsol's Kaleidoscope R&D project, which entirely uses the company's own technology to process seismic images and is environmen-tally friendly, has been chosen as one of the world's five most innovative projects by the

Oil platform in deep waters operated by Repsol, one of the world´s top ten priva-te oil companies.


American Institute of Electrical and Electro-nic Engineers.

4 A Spanish company, CEPSA, is world leader in the production of LAB, a raw mate-rial for detergents, and has licensed techno-logy for the manufacturing process, which it markets jointly with UOP. It is the leader together with its partner Petrobras in Latin America.

INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR

The thrust and advanced technology of its companies make Spain an absolute leader in this sector, with companies acting across the world after gaining undisputed prestige in building and managing roads, railways, airports, ports etc. Spanish construction and engineering companies are world leaders in the sector and participate in the world's most important projects:

A. TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURES

1 The world's top three companies in transport infrastructure management in terms of the number of concessions rela-ted to roads, railways, airports or ports un-der construction or in operation at October 2012, are Spanish, according to the ranking by Public Works Financing, the sector's lea-ding journal in the world: ACS, FCC and ABERTIS respectively.

2 Six of the world's top ten companies in transport infrastructure management in terms of the number of concessions rela-ting to roads, railways, airports or ports un-der construction or in operation at October 2012, are Spanish, according to the ranking by Public Works Financing. As well as the aforementioned ACS, FCC and ABERTIS, FERROVIAL is seventh, OHL eighth and SA-CYR ninth. Other Spanish companies are also ranked highly, such as ACCIONA, ISOLUX CORSÁN, ITINERE and SENER. A quarter of the forty companies listed in the ranking are Spanish.

3 37% of the world's largest transport concessions, mainly airports, ports and mo-torways, are run by Spanish companies (272 infrastructures) according to the latest classi-fication by Public Works Financing.

4 The world's leading operator in the mo-torway concessions sector is a Spanish com-pany, ABERTIS. It runs over 7,500 kilometres of motorways in the world. It is a clear leader in Latin America, especially in Brazil, where it operates 3,227 Km. of motorways, and in Chile, where it is the absolute leader.

5 The largest administrator of transport infrastructure in terms of investment (72 bi-llion dollars), is a Spanish company, FERRO-VIAL, according to the 2012 ranking by Pu-blic Works Financing.

6 Spanish companies are also leaders in toll motorways and parking systems. They participate in the subway systems of many cities, including London, Toronto, New York, Washington, New Delhi, Mexico, Santiago, Panama, Algiers and Rome.

7 Two of the four privatizations of assets made by the USA, at a value of 6.9 billion dollars, are operated by a Spanish company, FERROVIAL: the Indiana Toll Road (3.85 billion dollars over 75 years) and the Chi-cago Skyway (1,830 million dollars over 99 years).

8 In the largest infrastructure project in Europe, the Crossrail programme, FERRO-VIAL will build two tunnels, access shafts and caverns and the new Farringdon under-ground station in London, in consortium with BAM Nuttall and BK. It will be one of the United Kingdom's busiest stations.

9 The leading private infrastructure ope-rator in Latin America in terms of its inves-tment, number of assets under concession and kilometres is a Spanish company, OHL.

Two of the world's largest assets, the Canadian 407 ETR motorway in Toronto and Heathrow Airport in London, Europe's bu-siest (69.4 million passengers), are run by a Spanish company, FERROVIAL.

ISOLUX CORSAN runs over 1,500 Km. of motorways and more than 500 Km. in

Spanish firms are world leaders in transport infrastructure management in terms of number of concessions related to roads, railways, airports or ports and they run near 40% of the world's leading concessions. The three largest companies worldwide in the sector are Spanish.


electrical transmission lines in India where it is one of the sector's most important com-panies.

AENA is the world's leading airport orga-nisation in terms of passengers, with 194 mi-llion passengers registered in 2012, followed some way behind by Port Authority (US) with almost 50% less. In terms of volume of air traffic, Spain is second in Europe, behind the United Kingdom, according to the Airports Council International (ACI).

B. TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT

1 3,000 air traffic management facilities in over 140 countries use technology of a Spa-nish company, INDRA, which makes Spain the world leader in air traffic management systems. Among these countries are China, Australia, India or Germany.

2 INDRA's Spanish technology also mana-

ges 100% of German air space as well as 60% of Chinese skies.

3 INDRA is also one of the leaders of the Single European Sky project, managed by Eu-rocontrol.

4 Four of the United Kingdom's most im-portant airports: Heathrow, Glasgow, Aber-deen and Southampton, which serve around more than eighty two million passengers and two hundred and four airlines, are run by a Spanish company, FERROVIAL.

5 The world's largest motorway to incor-porate the first totally electronic and free-flow toll system, which enables the manage-ment of extremely high traffic volumes, is the 407-ETR in Toronto. Built and operated by a Spanish company, FERROVIAL, it is the lar-gest private motorway investment.

6 The Bicentenary Elevated Viaduct in Mexico which incorporates Latin America's most advanced electronic toll system that

Terminal T2A at Hea-throw Airport, the first of a new greener generation in Europe which will enable CO2 to be reduced by 40% compared to the previous building is being constructed by a Spanish company, FERROVIAL.


enables the management of over 1,400 vehi-cles per lane in an hour, much higher than traditional systems, is built and operated by a Spanish company, OHL, with another Spa-nish firm, INDRA, having developed the elec-tronic toll system.

7 INDRA develops the world's most in-novative ticketing management and control systems for subways, railways, tunnels and motorways.

8 The management, security and deve-lopment of the public transport networks of over one hundred of the world's cities are carried out by a Spanish company, INDRA. With references in countries like China, In-dia, the United States, Brazil, Chile, Mexico etc., it is one of the world's leading compa-nies in the development and implementa-tion of smart technology for sustainable mo-bility in cities.

C. ENGINEERING: PLANNING AND PROJECT

Spanish civil engineering companies oc-cupy leading positions in the world. They have recognised international prestige, which is displayed by their major pionee-ring work in the world and high level of know-how. Spanish firms participate in the design, supervision and monitoring of lea-ding projects:

1 A Spanish company, TYPSA, is parti-cipating in the construction of the world's third largest hydroelectric plant, Belo Monte in Brazil, with an installed capacity of 11,233 MW.

2 Engineering work for the building of the desalination plant with the largest capacity in Europe and the third in the world, the Val-delentisco Des out by a Spanish company, INYPSA.

3 The world's largest wastewater treatment plant, Atotonilco, Mexico, has been designed by TYPSA.

4 One of the largest infrastructure inves-tments in Ecuador, the works for the access roads to Quito's new airport, were super-

vised by the Spanish company AECOM-INOCSA.

5 One of the three most important carto-graphic engineering firms operating in Cen-tral America belongs to the Spanish company INYPSA GROUP.

6 The supervision and monitoring of the work on the Patnitop tunnel in the Kashmir region, which will be India's longest tunnel, is being carried out by the Spanish company EUROESTUDIOS.

7 The Spanish company EUROESTU-DIOS provides advice and technical support to the European Investment Bank (EIB) for Turkey's first high-speed project, which links the country's two major cities, Ankara and Istanbul.

8 TYPSA heads the consortium to develop the largest EU-funded project for the rehabi-litation and signalling of the Irmak-Karabük-Zonguldak railway line in Turkey.

9 ACCIONA has supervised the expansion and improvement of the Cairo-Alexandria motorway, Africa's most emblematic corri-dor. It has also helped to design and provide technical assistance for the second composi-te bridge over the Danube (Vidin-Calafat), an infrastructure which is key to the European structuring process.

Spanish engineering companies, which are recognised internationally for their know-how and technology, are engaged in many other important engineering projects worldwide. These include the design of Sao Paulo (Brazil) international airport, aimed at the hosting of the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, the drinking water provision plan in Riyadh (Saudi Ara-bia), the studies for Abu Dhabi's new subway network, the development of the plan for the improvement, construction, supervision and maintenance of Abu Dhabi's infrastruc-ture network and the study of a rail corridor which will link the city of Denver (Colorado, USA) with the tourism and ski centres of the Rocky Mountains.

3,000 air traffic management facilities in over 140 countries, including 100% of German air space as well as 60% of Chinese skies, use technology of a Spanish company, INDRA, which makes Spain the world leader in air traffic management systems.


D. CIVIL WORKS CONSTRUCTION

1 The expansion of the Panama Canal, one of the largest international civil engineering works is being carried out by a consortium led by a Spanish company, SACYR. In this project, another Spanish company, INDRA, has become a relevant technological partner in charge of the implementation of an access control and security integration system, a vessel detection system, the entire communi-cations technology, fire detection and extin-guishing systems, evacuation and an environ-mental sensor system for the third set of locks of the Panama Canal.

2 Two Spanish companies, FCC and AC-CIONA, are participating in the construction of what will be the world's third largest port, the one with the greatest capacity in the who-le of the American continent and the largest current port project, the Açu superport in Brazil.

The largest western construction com-pany, which specialises in infrastructure de-velopment at a global level, is a Spanish com-pany, ACS.

4 Terminal T2A of Heathrow Airport, the first of a new greener generation in Europe which will enable CO2 to be reduced by 40% compared to the previous building, will be constructed by a Spanish company, FERRO-VIAL.

5 The world's leading company in hospi-tal construction is a Spanish company, OHL, which is building two of the world's most te-chnologically advanced hospitals, the Univer-sity of Montreal Hospital Centre and the SI-DRA Medical and Research Centre in Qatar.

6 The world's longest tunnel, 57 Km in length, in St. Gotthard (Switzerland), is being built by a Spanish company, FCC.

7 One of the world's ten largest concrete cable-stayed bridges, the Wroclaw Bridge in Poland, was built by a Spanish company, AC-CIONA.

8 One of the world's longest steel cable-stayed bridges, the Ting-Kau in Hong Kong, was also built by ACCIONA.

9 The building of Miami's largest mo-torway junction, the largest public work of the Florida Transport Department, is being undertaken by a Spanish company, OHL.

One of Canada's biggest motorways, the A-30, which is vital to Quebec's communica-tions, was built by two Spanish companies, ACCIONA and ACS.

The fourth largest international contrac-

The expansion of the Panama Canal, one of the largest international civil engineering works, is being carried out by a consortium led by a Spanish company, SACYR.


tor in Latin America and the Caribbean, ac-cording to the ranking by Engineering News Record, is a Spanish company, ABEINSA-ABENGOA.

Europe's largest surface area of reser-voir water and one of the largest water reser-ves in the continent was built by a Spanish company, ACCIONA.

The largest earth pressure tunnel boring machine to have been built in the world up to the present times, the 17.5-metre diameter Bertha, was designed by a Spanish company, ACS. This diameter allows traffic to move both ways. It enables the 2,700 metre-long SR-99 tunnel to be constructed in Seattle and thereby remove the Alaskan Way Viaduct. ACS will also be the world's first company to use tunnel boring machines in the cons-truction of the New York suburban transport network.

The largest Bulgarian construction pro-ject, the Vidin-Calafat Bridge over the River Danube which will link Romania and Bulga-ria and has the capacity to accommodate road and rail traffic, was built by a Spanish com-pany, FCC.

The world's largest floating dock, the Monaco Dock, for enlarging the port of La Condamine, was built by a Spanish company, FCC.

A Spanish company, FERROVIAL, is one of the leading construction companies of freeways in Texas. At present, it is buil-ding various stretches of the North Tarrant Express and LBJ Express freeways, and has been awarded other relevant contracts in the State, the SH 121 and the US 183. The Webber firm, the leader in Texas road construction, was acquired by FERROVIAL in 2005. It has also won important contracts for freeway construction and maintenance in Virginia and Canada.

RAILWAY AND HIGH-SPEED INFRASTRUCTURES

Spain is an undisputed global benchmark in this field, a world technological power. The Spanish railway sector is visible on the five continents. Spain has the world's second longest high-speed network and the longest in Europe, with around 2,900 km. of high-speed line in service. It possesses the most modern and technologically advanced train fleet. Many countries have visited Spain to learn about the Spanish high-speed model and the consolidation of consortia among Spanish companies for developing high-speed trains have brought it great success.

1 The Spanish HIGH-SPEED RAIL NET-WORK has won worldwide recognition and prestige. Spain is an undisputed leader in de-sign and high-speed rail projects, in informa-tion and signalling systems, in infrastructure construction and maintenance and traffic management. Spanish companies are a ben-chmark in the construction and management of railway infrastructure, participating in the most outstanding projects in over 90 coun-tries from five continents.

▸ The most important infrastructure pro-ject in the Arab world in recent decades due to its significance and visibility, as well as its cost, will be carried out by the Sau-di-Spanish consortium, Al Shoula Group, which comprises twelve Spanish compa-nies (RENFE, ADIF, INECO, TALGO, OHL, COPASA, COBRA, CONSULTRANS, IMA-THIA, ABENGOA, DIMETRONIC and INDRA). The consortium was awarded the MECCA–MEDINA HIGH-SPEED project for a sum of around 7 billion Euros. This project involves the construction, exploi-tation and maintenance of both line and trains over a twelve year period. The line will be 450 Km. long and will serve over 160,000 pilgrims a day.

▸ The HIGH-SPEED LINE BETWEEN ANKARA AND ISTANBUL is another of the three largest international railway works awarded in 2011. Built by a Spanish company, OHL, it will improve the connection of rai-lway lines of the European side with those

Spain has the world's second longest high-speed network, with around 2,900 km. of high-speed line in service, as well as the most modern and technologically advanced train fleet in Europe.


of the Asian side and will enable high-speed trains to travel between both continents. The Spanish company CAF will supply the trains. The Marmaray project (Turkey), which im-proves the connection between the railway lines on the European side with those of the Asian side in Istanbul, is being carried out by OHL.

▸ The OBSKAJA-SALECHARD-NADYM (Polar Urals, Russia) railway line is one of the sector's most important projects in recent years in the world and the largest construc-tion project awarded to OHL

2 The Spanish company CAF (CONS-TRUCCIONES Y AUXILIAR DE FERRO-CARRILES S.A.) is one of the world's ten most important firms in this field. It designs, manufactures, maintains and supplies equi-pment and components for railway systems throughout the world using cutting-edge te-chnology. It has production plants in France, Mexico, Brazil and the USA, projects in over twenty five countries in the five continents and has been awarded contracts all over the world.

3 The ERTMS (European Railway Tra-ffic Management System) is a European project in which the Spanish company ADIF will lead the project that is being launched, the Testing and Experimenta-tion Ring in Málaga, that will be the most modern in the world due to its integration of the certification, standardisation, vali-

dation and refinement work and will boast the most up-to-date R&D&I in the field of railway transport. 4 The Da Vinci system, developed by IN-DRA and the intellectual property of ADIF, is the platform of reference in the world of railway traffic management. It operates the entire Spanish high-speed network and net-works of different characteristics, and will be the management technology to be incorpora-ted in the high-speed line linking Mecca and Medina.

5 TALGO is a main manufacturer of high-speed trains in Spain and recognised world-wide for its capacity for technological inno-vation. Standing out for its Very High-Speed, High Speed, Intercity and Long Distance technology, it is one of the five manufactu-rers with the most high-speed trains in ope-ration today. It has an industrial presence in the USA, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It is the company responsible for the design and manufacture of the high-speed trains for the Mecca-Medina project, together with long-distance trains for the Russian Federation's Railways.

6 The most important rail concession in the whole of America, System 1 of the Subur-ban Railway in Mexico, was implemented by a consortium headed by the Spanish com-pany CAF. This involves the construction, operation and commercial management of the suburban railway for thirty years. The

Mecca-Medina High-Speed train depiction by Spanish firm TALGO.


Spanish companies ADIF, INECO, OHL, IN-DRA and INABENSA have also participated in this project.

7 The experience of Spanish infrastructu-re companies has enabled them to undertake subway and light rail projects in a multitude of cities worldwide: the subways of Washing-ton, Hong Kong, Rome, Brussels, New Delhi, Sao Paulo (CAF), the Miami Subway (OHL), the Panama Subway (ACCIONA, FCC, ISO-LUX), the New York Subway (ACS), the Lon-don Underground (FERROVIAL), subways of Santiago de Chile, Lisbon and Porto (SA-CYR) etc. The Spanish company INDRA is a leading company in solutions for access con-trol and travel ticket vending systems throug-hout the world.

8 CAF participates in the world's most complicated urban transport routes lines, in subways and light railways abroad, with outstanding technological results such as the ACR System for Light Railway which enable high levels of energy efficiency, as well as dri-verless subway systems.

9 INABENSA (ABENGOA) is an inter-national benchmark in activities relating to overhead power cables, substations, com-munications and auxiliary systems (lighting and ventilation) as well as the design, supply, assembly and maintenance of electrification facilities in rail projects.

CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE: the high level of development of Spain's railway and high-speed industry is reflected in the deci-sions by foreign multinational companies to establish their global production centres and centres of excellence in the country.

▸ Canada's Bombardier Transportation is the only global manufacturer of trains and planes, and invests strongly in R&D&I. At the cutting edge of aeronautical and rail te-chnology, it has chosen Spain to establish its new Centre of Excellence in Railway Signalling Engineering in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid), with an approximate investment of three million Euros. Projects are developed here for Spain, Portugal and Latin America, as well as other special pro-jects worldwide.

▸ The Production Plant for Propulsion in Trapaga, Vizcaya, considered to be in the lea-ding group of Bombardier Transportation's plants in the world, is the second best plant and the first in Quality and Continuous Im-provement (according to the BOS Audit). It is one of the world's most advanced Technology Centres and heads the orders for Spain, Por-tugal, Italy and Latin America.

▸ Bombardier Services in Spain has also been selected as a world centre for the deve-lopment and production of a measurement system for electrical energy consumption by railway vehicles.

▸ Thales Spain is a World Centre of Excellen-ce for Rail Signalling, Space and Security for Energy Production and Distribution Centres.

AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY

1 The Spanish aeronautics industry is the fifth in Europe in terms of turnover and in-vests heavily in R&D&I through EADS.

2 It is the seventh most important satellite manufacturer in the world.

3 A Spanish company, GMV, is the world's leading independent supplier of Ground Control Systems for Satellite Telecommuni-cations Operators and the third leading Eu-ropean company by volume of participation in Galileo, the international leader in telema-tic systems for public transport.

▸ It is in the Top 50 of the Space Manufactu-ring and Services List created by the Ameri-can journal Space News, a world benchmark in the aerospace sector, for the third straight year.

▸ It has participated in the recent launch of VEGA VV-02, the European fleet's smallest rocket.

4 The Spanish satellite telecommunica-tions operator, HISPASAT (in which ABER-TIS has the majority shareholding), is the eight in the world and the fourth in Latin America, where it is the leader in distribution

The most important infrastructure project in the Arab world in recent decades, the Mecca-Medina high speed line, will be carried out by the Saudi-Spanish consortium, Al Shoula Group, which comprises twelve Spanish companies.


of content in Spanish and Portuguese. With two orbital positions, at 30º West and 61º West, it has sent ten satellites into orbit with coverage in Europe, the American continent and North Africa and it provides all types of advanced communications services.

▸ It was the first operator to provide Ka band to Latin America.

▸ It was also the first to provide an internet access service on high-speed trains in various European countries.

5 A Spanish company, SENER, leads the European Space Agency programme develo-ping efficient satellite formation flight tech-nology.

6 Spain is a European leader in space programmes. In the exploration of Mars by Curiosity to determine the habitability of the planet, one of its ten instruments is Spanish, the Rover Environmental Monito-ring Station (REMS). In addition, part of the communications from the planet surface to the Earth is operated with Spanish techno-logy, through a High-Performance Antenna developed by EADS CASA in collaboration with SENER.

7 INDRA is a benchmark company in Eu-rope in technology for the ground segment in space systems. Some of its products, such as satellite communications systems, are global leaders.

8 Half of commercial planes in the world incorporate Spanish technology.

9 A Spanish company, DANOBAT GROUP, part of the MONDRAGON GROUP, is a world leader in the supply of high-technology equi-pment for the rectification of blades for air-craft turbines. It now works with nearly all the commercial airlines.

Spain is currently one of the few coun-tries in the world with a complete cycle ca-pacity for planes: design, manufacture, final assembly and integration together with cer-tification, maintenance and modernisation.

EADS is a European transnational com-pany in which the Governments of Germany, France and Spain participate -22,5%, 22,5%

and 4,2% respectively- as majority sharehol-ders. It is one of the two global leaders in the Aerospace and Defence sectors, the other being BOEING.

The EADS Divisions include:

▸ AIRBUS is a world leader in commercial passenger transport planes.

▸ AIRBUS MILITARY, a business run by Spain, is the world's second largest manu-facturer of military transport planes in-flight and mission refuelling. It is the only foreign supplier in the contract for the replacement of aeronautical equipment belonging to the US Coast Guard.

▸ EUROCOPTER is a global leader for civil and parapublic helicopters. It has produced a third of the world's helicopter fleet.

▸ ASTRIUM, the Space Division, is a Euro-pean leader in space programmes. It occupies third place in the world among the suppliers of civil and military space systems.

AIRBUS SPAIN is a global leader in structures in composites. It was the first com-pany to use carbon fibre for the fuselage sec-tions of commercial planes of over 100 seats.

▸ The new AIRBUS A350XWB plane uses 53% carbon fibre, a technology which lessens its weight and therefore saves 25% in fuel. This technology is led by the Spanish indus-try.

CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE: the high level of the Spanish aerospace sector is reflected in the commitment major foreign multinationals have shown to Spain in the field of R&D. Both AIRBUS and BOEING have established important R&D centres in Spain.

▸ BOEING has established in Madrid its first R&D centre outside the USA, Boeing Re-search and Technology Europe.

▸ The AIRBUS Advanced Composites Centre in Illescas (Toledo), specialised in large cur-ved panels of carbon fibre reinforced plastic, is one of the world's three Centres of Exce-llence for carbon fibre.

The high level of the Spanish aerospace sector is reflected in the commitment major foreign multinationals have shown to Spain in the field of R&D, where they have established important R&D centres.


▸ Spain also hosts the Centre of Excellence for Horizontal Stabilisers of all the AIRBUS aircraft in the world, specifically in Getafe, Madrid.

The Spanish company INDRA is one of the world's leading companies in flight si-mulation, heading projects like Eurofighter simulators and helicopter simulators for the manufacturers Eurocopter and Augusta Westland:

▸ The first helicopter flight simulator certi-fied by the Chinese Civil Aviation Authority in the world was developed by INDRA.

▸ INDRA also developed the first helicopter flight simulator certified in the United States by the country's Federal Aviation Administra-tion (FAA) to promote operational training with night-vision goggles.

The world's first passive high-resolution primary radar system, capable of offering images by applying inverse synthetic aper-

ture techniques (ISAR), has been led by the Spanish company INDRA as the latest deve-lopment in its established family of radars. The aircraft of some of the world's most pres-tigious Armed Forces incorporate INDRA's technology in their self-protection systems (EF-200, A400M, C-295, Ch-53, Chinook, Ti-ger).

IBERIA is the first air carrier between Europe and Latin America. It forms part of the IAG Group, the third largest in Europe and the sixth in the world by turnover. The airport in Madrid is Latin America's first port of entry in Europe. Terminal 4 of Madrid-Barajas Airport, the distribution centre for IBERIA flights, was chosen as the world's third best terminal in the survey conducted by Skytrax, the sector's most prestigious con-sultancy.

Military radar by the Spanish technological firm INDRA.


NAVAL TECHNOLOGY

1 A Spanish company, NAVANTIA, is one of the world's five leading designers of mili-tary vessels, present in more the twenty five countries, particularly Australia, Brazil, Tur-key, Saudi Arabia and Algeria, participating in major international projects. Its designs for frigates, destroyers and aircraft carriers, which incorporate highly advanced techno-logy with high added value, have won it ma-jor international contracts. One of the most significant current ones is for destroyers and carrier vessels, for the Royal Australian Navy.

2 The Spanish company INDRA, a lea-der in advanced systems (radars, electronic defence, communications), supplies some of the world's most prestigious Navies. Also engineering company SENER, thanks to its FORAN software, designs and manufactures any type of vessel à la carte.

AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR

1 Spain is the second largest manufac-turer of commercial vehicles in Europe, ranking twelfth worldwide. Vehicles manu-factured in Spain are exported to over one hundred and thirty countries. Spain has its own make, SEAT (Sociedad Española de Au-tomóviles de Turismo).

2 It is the first largest industrial vehicle manufacturer in Europe.

3 Of the ten best selling models of cars in Europe, four are manufactured in Spain.

4 Spain is one of the few countries in the world that hosts the majority of the world-wide multinationals in this sector, with se-venteen production plants belonging to nine industrial groups. This is due to its high level of competitiveness in manufacturing as well as in the component industry.

5 The Spanish brand SEAT won the World

The ALHD 'Canberra' built for the Austra-lian Royal Navy by NAVANTIA, during its journey aboard Blue Marlin platform.


Touring Car Championship (WTCC) in 2008 and 2009.

6 The Spanish automotive component in-dustry ranks sixth in the world and third in Europe: Spanish component companies are in leading positions throughout the world and Europe, thanks to heavy investment in R&D.

▸ GESTAMP is a world leader in design, de-velopment and manufacturing of systems and metalwork for the automotive sector (body components, chassis and mechanisms), which can account for over 70% of a vehicle. It has 94 production plants and twelve R&D centres in more than nineteen countries.

▸ It is supplier to the top twelve automobile makers in the world and five of the six top makers in Europe, with a total of twenty five brand makers.

▸ It is world leader in hot stamping (techni-que allowing for lighter and more resistant steel) with a market share of 30%.

▸ It is world leader in opening systems and mechanisms since the acquisition of the com-pany Edscha. It is currently working on passi-ve security systems for pedestrians.

▸ GRUPO ANTOLÍN is number one in the world in overhead systems. The company designs, develops and produces headliner, doors, seats and lighting systems for nearly all automobile manufacturers.

▸ One of every four cars made in the world includes ANTOLÍN products.

▸ ZANINI is number one in the world for wheel trims.

▸ FICOSA is the world leader in rear-view mirrors for industrial vehicles. The company designs, develops, produces and commerciali-ses systems and components for industrial ve-hicles and has factories and technical centres in nineteen countries and heavy investment in R&D.

FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE SECTOR

1 Two of the world’s main financial enti-ties are Spanish: BANCO SANTANDER and BBVA.

2 According to Euromoney Magazine, the Spanish Bank BANCO SANTANDER was Best Bank in the World and Best in the UK, Poland, Portugal, Mexico and Argentina. It is the largest bank in the Eurozone in terms of market capitalisation; the international bank with the greatest number of branches in the world, as well as the leading brand for commercial banking and the sixth most important financial brand in the world ac-cording to The Banker. It is one of the most efficient banks in the world.

3 SANTANDER UK is the third largest bank in the United Kingdom for deposits and second for mortgages. It has twenty six mi-llion clients in the UK.

4 BANCO SANTANDER is the largest bank in Chile in banking assets and the lar-gest private bank in Argentina. In Brazil, it ranks third in private banking and is also the third largest financial group in Mexico in terms of turnover. It is also the third largest bank in Portugal and Poland.

5 BANCO SANTANDER is Germany’s lea-der in consumer financing.

6 The Spanish bank BBVA is Mexico’s largest financial institution with leading fran-chises in South America and a relevant pre-sence in Turkey and China.

7 BBVA is the best institution for SMEs in Venezuela and the best asset manager of Mexico, according to The Banker / PWN.

▸ It was awarded the United Nations “Social Investment Pioneer” in the category of Social Business for its contribution to the develop-ment of communities through its Fundación Microfinanzas

8 Two Spanish banks dominate the La-tin American banking system: BANCO SAN-TANDER and BBVA.

Spain ranks second in Europe and twelfth in the world as manufacturer of commercial vehicles. It is also the first largest industrial vehicle manufacturer in Europe. The Spanish automotive component industry ranks sixth in the world and third in Europe.


9 The number one non-life insurance group in Latin America and number two as global operator in the region is the Spanish company MAPFRE. It is the sixth most im-portant European non-life insurance group and is amongst the top twenty in car insuran-ce in the United States. It is one of the largest groups in the world for reassurance and in-surance.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Spanish companies are leaders in ICT, a sector which has experienced some of the greatest growth in Europe in the last decade. Spain is number five world-wide in turnover and a leader in several fields.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

1 The largest European company in re-venues and sixth in asset capitalisation is Spanish: TELEFÓNICA. With a presence in twenty four countries and a client base of three hundred and sixteen million accesses in 2012, it is the world's largest comprehensive telecommunications company in number of accesses outside its home market. The com-pany has a strong presence in Europe and Latin America and holdings in China Unicom and Telecom Italia, with whom it has a total of 871 million clients; in addition, it has colla-borations with Bouygues, Telecom, Sunrise and Etisalat.

▸ It is the reference operator on the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking markets.

▸ It is the world provider of communica-tion, information and entertainment solu-tions. Moreover, it has a business unit devo-ted to capturing future growth in the digital domain, in areas such as financial services, e-health, M2M, cloud computing, Big Data, digital video and home entertainment, ad-vertising and security. It provides technolo-gical support to entrepreneurs through its Wayra initiative, which includes financing,

administrative assistance, legal assistance, training in ad hoc learning centres in twelve countries and the highest level technologi-cal support.

▸ It is amongst the world’s top 100 compa-nies that most promote R&D according to the American consulting firm BOOZ.

▸ It is one of the twenty five best compa-nies to work for, according to the second edition of the world list Best Multinational Workplaces 2012 created by the consultancy Great Place to Work. It ranks number thir-teen on the list, with technological firm, Sas Institute, at the lead, seconded by Google.

▸ According to Fortune Magazine, it is the best European operator (World’s Most Admi-red Companies, March 2012).

2 Spain is the European leader in smartphone usage: 63.2% of mobile phones in Spain are smartphones, ahead of the United Kingdom (62.3%), France (51.4%) and Ger-many (48.4%).

E-GOVERNMENT AND ELECTRONIC IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES

1 The Spanish firm INDRA is the world leader in development and implantation of electronic identification technologies and biometric solutions. The Spanish company FÁBRICA NACIONAL DE MONEDA Y TIMBRE- REAL CASA DE LA MONEDA is leader in digital signature services and the manufacturing of identification documents.

▸ Spain is one of the most advanced countries in the world in terms of IT usage for digital identification. The Spanish national identity card and electronic passport are two of the most ambitious and pioneering initiatives in the world, with the participation of the Spa-nish Mint, and behind them, INDRA and TE-LEFÓNICA

2 The United Nations granted Spain the National Public Service Award, the most prestigious international award for public ad-ministration, in recognition for the quality of internet services the Spanish public adminis-tration provides to its citizens.

The United Nations granted Spain the National Public Service Award, the most prestigious international award for public administration, in recognition for the quality of internet services the Spanish public administration provides to its citizens.


3 INDRA is the leader in the electoral ser-vices domain, with over three hundred and fifty electoral processes managed and three billion voters assisted in twenty countries, including United Kingdom, Norway, France and Peru.

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

1 Spanish firm AMADEUS is the lea-ding company for advanced technology so-lutions in the travel sector worldwide. It is the leading distribution system worldwide in terms of air travel reservations transac-tions processed by travel agencies. Ama-deus leads in Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

▸ It is the world’s leading technological solu-tions provider for airlines through its techno-logical platform for passenger service mana-gement ALTEA (reservations, inventory, and flight departure management).

▸ It is the leading European company in terms of investment in R&D in the travel and tourism sector according to the 2012 EU In-dustrial R&D Investment Scoreboard compi-led by the European Commission. Amadeus invested 414 million Euros and has fifteen R&D centres throughout the world.

2 GRUPO ZED is the world’s leading company in mobile content development and distribution and has offices in seventy two countries.

3 The Spanish company SOFTONIC is the most important software download site in the world and number three in Europe in terms of users.

4 PANDA SECURITY is one of the world’s ten leading software and computer protec-tion companies. It is the world leader in cloud data security. The antimalware laboratory Pandalabs has developed a collective intelli-gence system that has won many internatio-nal awards.

5 In social networks, TUENTI is the world leader in terms of engagement time (average time users spend at the site). It is also leader

in the world for number of users via mobile phone. With a unique and differentiating mo-del with regards to other social networking tools, it is the most private and secure com-munications platform.

6 Technology from the Spanish company BRAINSTORM, which provides 3D graphic solutions in real time for all the television stations, is behind the largest Video Wall graphics in the world. It is in Nasdaq, con-nected in real time to the technology stock market in Times Square (New York). Com-munications giants such as Reuters, CNBC and BBC use their software to develop their visuals.

7 Spanish company AIA (Aplicaciones en Informática Avanzada) is one of the world leaders in artificial intelligence. Its compu-ter services are contracted by US electric companies to prevent blackouts and by glo-bal financial institutions to detect money laundering.

OTHER SERVICES

A. SECURITY SERVICES

1 Spanish company PROSEGUR, one of the world’s leading private security multina-tionals, is number one in Latin America. It is a main player, as well, in Europe and growing sharply in Asia.

HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

Spain has one of the best universal health systems in the world, at the top in terms of management and administration, and pio-neer in the implantation and development of advanced technology solutions such as electronic prescriptions and digital medical records. Spain ranks fifth in exports of world health technology and is the fifth-ranked country in Europe for number of clinical analysis.


The Spanish health management and e-health model is amongst the world’s cutting edge. INDRA, TELEFÓNICA, OESIA and EVERIS are leading companies on both Eu-ropean and International scales.

A.BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICALS

This is a sector with huge future growth po-tential and a high degree of R&D+I. Spain ranks first place in Europe and third world-wide in agro biotechnology and fifth in bio-chemistry and molecular biology. Spain is also present in highly specialised and stra-tegic sectors, such as the manufacturing of essential plasma-derived drugs. It is the fifth country in the Euro zone in scientific pro-duction and the ninth world-wide. According to the British Royal Society, 2,5% of scienti-fic publications in this field are produced in Spain.

1 One of the world’s leading companies in the production of biological plasma-derived

products is Spanish, GRIFOLS:

▸ It is number one world-wide in capacity to obtain plasma.

▸ It ranks third in the world for sales volume and is the number one company in Europe in its sector. Regarding products, the proteins intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), serum albumin, Factor VIII and alpha 1-antitrypsin are the biggest sellers.

▸ These proteins are essential for treating di-fferent diseases and GRIFOLS is researching their application for treating other diseases such as Alzheimer’s, based on the extraction of patient plasma and its replacement mainly with albumin. The firm is also present in biotechnology projects through the partici-pation in companies such as PROGÉNIKA BIOPHARMA, ARACLON BIOTECH and NANOTHERAPIX.

▸ It also develops clinical diagnostics systems and pharmaceuticals for hospital use.

2 A Spanish company, PHARMAMAR,

Laboratories of the Spanish firm GRI-FOLS, one of the world´s leading ma-nufacturers of biolo-gical plasma-derived pharmaceuticals.


from the ZELTIA group, is the world leader in development of innovative drugs of ma-rine origin for treating cancer, and uses a comprehensive business model. It has a sa-les network throughout Europe with satelli-tes in Spain, Italy, Germany and the United States.

▸ It is the first company in the world to mar-ket an anti-tumour treatment derived from the sea.

▸ Yondelis is the first marine-based phar-maceutical product, already on the market, approved by the EMEA. Another four pro-ducts are between development stages I and III.

▸ According to figures from the ASEBIO 2011 report, it is the most active private company in terms of intellectual property, with a large patent portfolio.

3 Other companies such as BIOKIT are exceptionally pioneering companies in biote-chnology, relying heavily on R&D+i.

4 CENTRES FOR EXCELLENCE: some of the sector’s leading foreign pharmaceu-tical and biotech multinationals have set up their excellence centres and production and distribution centres in Spain:

▸ LILLY has one of the most important and largest production plants and the most im-portant private R&D centre in the world located in Spain. It houses the Medical Che-mistry Research Centre and the European Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Labo-ratory.

▸ Other companies such as SERONO, GSK and PFIZER have established important re-search centres in Spain, investing a great deal in them.

▸ CELGENE has recently established its first research centre outside the United States, exclusively devoted to R&D+i in Seville, the Celgene Institute of Translational Research Europe (CITRE). It serves as a bridge bet-ween Celgene R&D and the research commu-nity throughout Europe.

▸ The German laboratory BAYER decided to concentrate its worldwide production of

aspirin in its research centre in the Spanish region of Asturias, with an important inves-tment.

B. TRANSPLANTS

Spain has been the world leader in organ do-nations and transplants for twenty one con-secutive years.

1 Spain has the highest organ donation rate of any country in the world. The dona-tions are done altruistically, with a rate of 35.3 donors per million inhabitants in 2011 (1,667 donors), nearly doubling that of the EU (18.1) and topping the United States by eight points. It accounts for 17% of European Union dona-tions.

2 The Spanish transplants management model developed by the National Organi-zation of Transplants (ONT) is considered internationally to be an example to emulate. It is an extremely innovative and efficient management system for the communication and transfer of organs to the most appro-priate medical centre. The Spanish Model comprises a set of measures taken in our country to improve the management of or-gan donations. This model has been recor-ded extensively in scientific literature and recommended by the WHO (World Health Organization). It is being implemented in different parts of the world with similar re-sults as those obtained here. The ONT also develops training events for professionals from different countries, especially those of Latin America, to implement the Spanish transplant model there and involve the enti-re Spanish health system.

3 The WHO declared Spain to be the headquarters of the Global Observatory and Database on Donation and Transplantation in 2006 and in 2008 named the ONT as a WHO Collaborating Centre.

4 In 2013 Spanish expert José Ramón Núñez was appointed head of the WHO Transplants Division with Rafael Matesanz, director of ONT, as chief advisor. These ap-pointments recognize the excellence of the Spanish transplants system that has promo-ted organ transplants throughout the world


in accordance to the ethical principles of the Spanish transplant system.

5 The first simultaneous bilateral leg transplant in the world and the second trans-plant of two entire arms in the world were ca-rried out by Spanish surgeon Pedro Cavadas.

C. MEDICAL RESEARCH

1 Spain ranks third in assisted reproduc-tion technology: The Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad (IVI) is the world leader, with twenty three centres in seven countries, one of the most award-winning in the reproduc-tive field, with eight awards granted by the American Society for Reproductive Medici-ne.

2 The number one cancer research cen-tre, in percentage of scientific publications and their impact, is Spanish: the CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES ON-COLÓGICAS (National Centre for Oncology Research or CNIO); it ranks as the ninth bio-

medical research centre in the world accor-ding to SCImago figures.

3 The project for the most complete neu-ral map for exploring the human brain called BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), will be hea-ded by Spanish neuroscientist Rafael Yuste, coordinator of Columbia University’s Kavly Institute (New York). The aim is to combat diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, au-tism and epilepsy. The US will initially in-vest 100 million dollars in the project.

4 In ophthalmic optics, Spanish com-pany INDO is in the top rank for progressi-ve correction lenses and equipment supplies for optometrists and ophthalmologists. The OFTALMOLOGÍA BARRAQUER Centre in Barcelona and the INSTITUTO FERNÁN-DEZ-VEGA in Oviedo are leaders in the ophthalmology sector.

5 Development of the first malaria vaccine has been headed by Spanish specialist Pedro Alonso (Centro de Investigación de Salud In-ternacional de Barcelona, CRESIB).

Spain has been the world leader in organ donations and trans-plants for twenty one consecutive years. Spain has the highest organ donation rate of any country in the world done altruis-tically. The Spanish model developed by the National Organi-zation of Transplants (ONT) is considered internationally to be an example to emulate.


6 The first therapeutic and preventive va-ccine for Alzheimer’s disease was presented by a Spanish team of researchers headed by Dr. Ramón Cacabelos. It has already proven to be efficient in genetically altered mice and will soon be tested in humans.

7 A group of Spanish scientists from the Hospital Clínico in Barcelona are in charge of the development of a therapeutic vaccine against HIV.

8 Celia Sánchez Ramos won the United Nations award for Best Inventor in 2009 and the Gold Medal of the International Exhibi-tion of Inventions in Geneva, for her cornea examination method.

9 Many other Spanish scientists, working in Spain and abroad are heading research projects in the medical field: Spanish car-diologist Valentín Fuster, Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Me-dical Center and the CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCU-LARES (CNIC), is a world-renowned ex-pert in his field. Psychiatrist and researcher Luis Rojas Marcos is another internationa-lly recognised figure for his contributions to the field of psychiatry. He was director of the Municipal Hospital Psychiatry Sys-tem in New York from 1982 to 1992, head of the Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Addition Services until 1995, where he was appointed president of the Public Hospital System in New York. This service encom-passed the city’s sixteen public hospitals and ambulance network and he remained in the post until 2002. María Blasco and Joan Massagué are distinguished oncologists, amongst others.

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES

Spain ranks third in the world and first in the European Union for number of ISO 14001 certificates for environmental management systems.

A. WATER TREATMENT

Spain is a world leader in all stages of mana-gement of the comprehensive water cycle:

1 Spain is the leading producer of desali-nated water in Europe and America.

2 In the reutilization of treated water, Spain is number one in Europe and number two in the world for reused water, outstan-ding in terms of legal framework as well as in technology.

3 Spain ranks number four in the world for desalination capacity (three million squa-re meters per day).

4 Spain leads the first European initiati-ve to coordinate the water sector, JPI Water, created to coordinate European R&D+I re-garding water.

5 Spanish companies are at the head of desalination infrastructures throughout the world: ACCIONA, ABENGOA WATER, ACS, AGUAS DE BARCELONA, CADAGUA (of FERROVIAL), AQUALIA (of FCC), OHL, SACYT (of SACYR), TRAGSA. Seven of the twenty largest international desalination companies are Spanish.

▸ ACCIONA is the world leader in reverse os-mosis desalination technology The company has built over seventy desalination plants and has installations in the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Cape Verde, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates.▸ ACCIONA is building the world’s largest water treatment plant in Mexico, in addition to another ten water desalination, treatment and purification projects in Latin America.

▸ Two of the largest desalination plants in the world are being built by ACCIONA in Austra-lia and Saudi Arabia.

▸ ACCIONA has also built the desalination plant at Beckton in London. This is the first one to be installed in the UK and is noted for using renewable energies and for the reuse of 85% of the energy consumed in the des-alination process. It has received several prizes.

Spain is world leader in all stages of management of the comprehensive water cycle. It is the leading producer of desalinated water in Europe and America. Spain is also Europe's leader in the reutilization of treated water and number two in the world.


▸ The largest desalination plant in the United States is at Tampa, Florida, and was built by ACCIONA.

▸ AQUALIA (FCC) is the world’s third ran-king company for comprehensive water ma-nagement, and the number one company in Latin America.

▸ Two of the largest desalination plants in Africa are being built by a Spanish firm, AQUALIA (FCC) as well as one of the biggest desalination plants in Africa, in Egypt.

▸ ABENGOA WATER built the first desalina-tion plant in India (Chennai) and is building the first in Ghana.

6 CADAGUA (FERROVIAL) has been the world’s leader in developing a sludge treatment plant by gasification. It was also the first company of its sector in Europe to receive the EMA certificate.

7 Spanish companies are within those countries having received the most Global Water Intelligence Awards: The El Realito purification plant in Mexico, owned by FCC, was awarded best financial operation; AC-CIONA was chosen in 2013, for the second time, as the world’s best water company. The electrical power plant Fujairah 2 built and operated by the Spanish company VEOLIA, was awarded second best desalination plant in 2012; the third best water company in 2012 was the Spanish company ABENGOA and the fourth largest desalination company was Spain’s VALORIZA AGUA (SACYR); ACCIONA was also granted several awards on different occasions for best desalination company, to the most innovative plant (Bec-kton) and to the best plants (Tampa, Adelai-da and Beckton).

8 Spanish companies are responsible for many of the world’s most important water treatment projects such as Mexico’s El Rea-lito and Acueducto II developed by FCC and ABENGOA’s El Zapotillo project in Jalisco.

9 The Atotonilco plant in Hidalgo, Mexi-co, is one of the world’s largest in treatment of waste water, and was built by Spanish com-pany ACCIONA; it will service 10.5 million inhabitants.

Another Spanish company, TÉCNICAS REUNIDAS, built one of the largest desalina-tion plants in Australia, and is also in char-ge of the enlargement project to double the plant’s production.

B. INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT

1 BEFESA is the first company in Europe to recycle steel and aluminium waste, with treatment plants in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden and Turkey, as well as other countries.

2 FCC is the fifth company in the United Kingdom, in terms of revenues, for waste ma-nagement and treatment.

C. SUSTAINABILITY

Spain is firmly committed to improve envi-ronmental sustainability in all areas such as renewable energies, full-cycle water mana-gement, recycling and waste reutilization.

1 It is the fourth country in the world with more groups ranking first in the annual reports of countries leading in sustainabili-ty according to the Sustainability Yearbook, published by ROBECCOSAM and KPMG, where 15% of the world’s best corporations from fifty eight sectors are present, with a total of 2,000 companies evaluated. AMA-DEUS (technology solutions), GAMESA (renewable energies), GAS NATURAL (gas supply) IBERDROLA (electric) and REP-SOL (oil and gas production) are leaders in their respective sectors. Other Spanish com-panies rank second and third in their respec-tive sectors: ACCIONA, AGBAR, ENAGAS, ENDESA, FERROVIAL, INDITEX, INDRA, MAPFRE, RED ELÉCTRICA and TELEFÓ-NICA.

2 IBERDROLA is the world’s leading company in the electric power sector, accor-ding to the Dow Jones sustainability index; it is the first utility company with nuclear assets to be selected from the FTSE 4Good and second electric company in the world on the Storebrand index.

Spain is firmly committed to improve environmental sustainability in all areas such as renewable energies, full-cycle water management, recycling and waste reutilization.


3 The Beckton desalination plant in the United Kingdom, built by ACCIONA, has been recognised as the most sustainable and innovative in the world by the prestigious publication Global Water Intelligence.

4 ENAGAS is the leader in the building of a Green Data Centre, pioneer data proces-sing plant in Europe.

5 GAS NATURAL FENOSA is recogni-sed by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) as one of the most sustainable com-panies in the world in the utilities sector.

6 REPSOL is in first place for the second consecutive year in the energy sector Green Ranking, which values the environmental practices of the top 500 companies on the stock market in the world; it is also leader in the Oil & Gas sector in the World and Eu-ropean 2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). It has also been acclaimed for the third time in the last five years for its carbon management and energy efficiency.

7 The Spanish firm TRAGSA takes the

top position in Europe in execution of sus-tainable rural development projects and also provides innovative solutions to secure the sustainable use of water, saving on great amounts of water.

OTHER INDUSTRIAL SECTORS

A. MACHINE TOOLS

The machine tool industry provides the most important sectors of the economy with pro-ductive means, especially the automotive and components sector, aeronautical and aeros-pace industry, railway and energy production industries, amongst others.

1 Spain is the third largest manufacturer and exporter of machine tools in the Euro-pean Union and ninth in the world.

Desalination plant at Beckton (London) built by ACCIONA, is the first one to be installed in the UK and is noted for using renewable energies and for the reuse of 85% of the energy consumed in the des-alination process. It has received several prizes.


2 GRUPO DANOBAT, one of the COOPE-RATIVA MONDRAGÓN companies, is the world leader in the manufacturing of machi-ne tools in the supply of high-tech equipment for rectification of turbine blades in aircraft and currently operates with practically all commercial aircraft companies.

3 FAGOR ARRASATE, also part of the GRUPO MONDRAGÓN, is the world leading manufacturer of forming machine tools in terms of product portfolio and one of the top three in terms of turnover.

4 NICOLÁS CORREA S.A. is one of the leading industrial groups in Europe both in size and in terms of innovation, in the con-cept, design and manufacture of milling machines. It is top of the European list for milling solutions that are adaptable to the most demanding environments, such as the manufacturing of matrices, large format moulds, monolithic aerospace elements and products for railway, energy and general me-chanics.

B. STEEL INDUSTRY

1 A Spanish company, ACERINOX, is the world leader in terms of capacity for stainless steel manufacturing; it is the only manufactu-rer worldwide that has four factories on four different continents, with permanent facili-ties in over thirty one countries.

▸ It is the first company both in production and sales in stainless steel in the United Sta-tes.

▸ It is currently building a one million-ton factory in Malaysia.

▸ It will supply stainless steel for the longest bridge in China, the largest offshore project in the country’s industrial transport history, measuring 35.6 Km., which will unite the re-gions of Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao. The type of steel chosen is designed exclusively for marine environment construction.

2 Spanish steel producers for the cons-truction sector, ARCELORMITTAL GI-PUZKOA, COMPAÑÍA ESPAÑOLA DE LA-MINACIÓN (CELSA), CELSA ATLANTIC,

GLOBAL STEEL WIRE, MEGASA SIDE-RÚRGICA, NERVACERO and SIDERÚRGI-CA SEVILLANA have been the first in the world to adopt a Corporate Social Responsi-bility strategy (CSR), by creating the MARCA SOSTENIBILIDAD SIDERÚRGICA (Sus-tainable Steel Brand). These companies pro-duced 16.31% of the total amount of steel for construction purposes in the EU.

3 The only facility in the world to produce cutting-edge extra-long rails (75m) is in As-

Spain is the third largest manufactu-rer and exporter of machine tools in the European Union and ninth in the world.


turias, at the ARCELORMITTAL plant. This was made possible through the development of very sophisticated technology in which many public and private companies and ins-titutions participated.

C. INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL SECTOR

1 A Spanish company, MAXAM, is the second largest company in the world and the first in Europe in the civil explosives sector for use in mining, infrastructures and qua-rrying.

2 EXPAL, the defence unit of MAXAM, is the global leader in demilitarization of obso-lete munitions and clearing terrain after ar-med conflicts and is also one of the European leaders in conventional munitions.

3 MAXAM is also the world leader in sport hunting cartridges.

D. ARTIFICIAL WRAPPING

1 Spanish company VISCOFAN is the world leader in artificial casings for the meat industry and the only world-wide supplier to develop technologies for all ty-pes of wrappings: cellulosic, collagen, fibre and plastic. Their products are sold in over 120 countries in the world, produced in their factories in eight different countries throughout the world. They continue to ex-pand with new collagen factories in China and Uruguay. This leading position is due to the high-level technology developed in their production centres.

▸ Over 60% of the cellulosic wrapping pro-duced in the world and over 20 % of collagen wrap is produced by VISCOFAN.

E. OTHERS

1 GRUPO MONDRAGÓN is the largest industrial cooperative in the world. With a highly international profile, it encompasses one hundred and eleven small and mid-cap companies, notably DANOBAT, EROSKI SU-

PERMARKETS, ORBEA, FAGOR and ORO-NA.

▸ It is the winner of the “Boldness in Busi-ness” awards in the category of “Drivers of change” by the Financial Times (FT) as an innovative company for its real business mo-del based on a cooperative system, on collec-tive labour, solidarity and the involvement of people.

2 ORONA (GRUPO MONDRAGÓN) is a leader in production capacity for complete lift systems in Europe. One out of every ten new lifts in Europe is manufactured by ORO-NA.

▸ It is the first company worldwide in the lift industry, certified in Eco Design, under ISO 14006.

3 The Spanish Mint (FÁBRICA NACIO-NAL DE LA MONEDA Y TIMBRE) is one of the top four European exporting manufac-turers of security paper, together with Ger-many, Italy and Switzerland. Spain produces approximately 20% of the paper required by the eurosystem, with high-level technology.


DISTRIBUTION AND FASHION INDUSTRY

There have been great creative geniuses in Spain’s fashion history who have left their mark on the world, such as Mariano Fortuny and Cristóbal Balenciaga who, with their li-neal cuts and treatment of fabric and colour, have turned the world of haute couture on its head. Their influence is still present to-day and universally acclaimed by the grea-test designers of their time. Spain also has remarkable designers currently working and triumphing on international catwalks.

1 The world’s largest fashion distribu-tion group, with a unique product strategy that is subject of study in the best business schools, is Spanish, INDITEX. Its business model applied to fashion is the most patent example of success in the world in its sector. The group runs over 6,000 establishments in eighty seven countries throughout the world and continues global expansion.

2 PRONOVIAS is a Spanish company that ranks number one in the world’s bridal indus-try, with clients in ninety three countries and exclusive boutiques in thirty one.

3 Other Spanish companies and groups rank highly in the world, including MANGO, with 2,500 points of sale in one hundred and nine countries and strong standing, and GRU-PO CORTEFIEL, formed by four own-brand chains and present in sixty five countries via 1,900 points of sale.

4 The Spanish company JEANOLOGÍA has put a spin on the jeans industry. With in-novative methods, JEANOLOGÍA is market leader in laser technology. It is currently the owner of 85% of laser-based production in the world in the Jeanswear industry, with clients in forty five countries throughout the world.

▸ The company is also leader in technologies that strive for energy and water saving, che-mical elimination in the textile manufactu-ring process and death prevention on assem-bly lines throughout the world.

HABITAT SECTOR

Several Spanish companies are leaders in di-fferent fields:

1 Spanish company ROCA is the number one company in the world in sanitary fittings and bath fixture manufacturing, with presen-ce on four continents in over one hundred and thirty countries.

2 PORCELANOSA is the world leader in tile flooring and covering sector. It has over four hundred shops throughout the world, both in own-brand shops and through outsi-de business concerns and local distributors.

ZARA is the flagship of Spanish textile multinational Inditex, world leader in fas-hion distribution. In the picture, one of its most representative stores, in the Boc-coni Palace of Rome (Italy).


3 The world leader in quartz surfaces is a Spanish company, SILESTONE, belonging to GRUPO COSENTINO, with distribution in over sixty countries.

PUBLISHING INDUSTRY

1 Spain’s publishing industry ranks four-th in the world after the US, United Kingdom and Germany, with strong companies in the sector situated amongst the top six in the world.

2 The sixth largest publishing group in the world and number one in Latin America, first in Spain and second largest publishing group in France is the Spanish company GRUPO PLANETA which is also the world leader in fascicule publications.

3 GRUPO SANTILLANA is the irrefutable leader in the educational publishing subsec-tor in non-university books in Latin America with a large presence in the US.

4 GRUPO SM is the world leader in the publishing subsector of children and young readers in Latin America.

5 GRUPO OCÉANO is the leader in the subsector of Spanish language reference works in Latin America and the US.

6 Spain is the European Union country with most titles translated into other langua-ges (27%), followed by Germany.

POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Spain has some of the world’s best business schools and is one of the preferred desti-nations of international students for MBA programmes (Master en Business Adminis-tration). In the Financial Times rankings of 2012 and 2013, three Spanish business

schools appear at the top of the categories covered:

1 Three Spanish business schools, IE, ESADE and IESE are in first, third and sixth position, respectively, according to the “Eu-ropean Business School Rankings 2012” by the Financial Times, falling into four pro-gramme ranking categories: MBA, Executive MBA, Master in Management and Executive Education programmes.

▸ According to this ranking, Spain is the Eu-ropean country with most business schools (two) amongst the five best in Europe due to their MBA, Executive MBA, Master in Mana-gement and Executive Education program-mes, together with France.

2 IESE Business School ranks as seventh best business school in the world for its full-time MBA programmes according to the Global MBA ranking 2013 by the Financial Times, which classifies the top 100 schools in the world. It should be noted that six of the ten best programmes are at USA universities and three at European universities, one being IESE.

3 Two other Spanish business schools, IE Business School and ESADE Business School are amongst the twenty five best schools for their MBA programmes, according to the same ranking: IE is number eleven and ESA-DE, number twenty-two.

▸ According to this ranking, Spain is the se-cond country in the world with more than two business schools among the top 25 for their MBA programmes, only behind the Uni-ted States.

4 IESE ranks second in the world at the world’s top in the general ranking of schools that offer Executive Education Programmes, according to Executive Education Ranking 2013 published by the Financial Times, which averages the rankings of the open and custo-mised programmes. IESE ranks second in the world for its open programmes (Executive Education-open) and third for its customised programmes designed by companies (Execu-tive Education-customised). In the general ranking, another two Spanish business schools also have world leadership positions: ESADE is number four and IE number nineteen.

Spain is the only country in the world with two business schools, among the top five in the world for its Open and Customized Top Executive programmes. It has also the only business school in the world that offers training on four continents (Europe, Asia, America and Africa).


▸ According to this same ranking, Spain is the only country in the world with two bu-siness schools, IESE and ESADE, among the five top in the world for its Open and Cus-tomized Top Executive programmes. IESE is also the only business administration pro-gramme to offer training in four continents (Europe, Asia, America and Africa).

5 Spanish business schools are also world renowned for other masters programmes according to the FT: IE is the second best business school for its Master in Finance in the “pre-experience” modality, according to the Masters in Finance Pre-experience 2012 ranking by the Financial Times, and the sixth best school in the world and ESADE the se-venth for their Masters in Management, ac-cording to the Masters in Management 2012 ranking by the Financial Times.

6 ESADE is the second best school in the world for teamwork (MBA Rankings: Top Schools for Teamwork) and the fourth best in the world for diversity (MBA Rankings: Top Schools for Diversity); IESE is the sixth best school in the world for ethics (MBA Rankings: Top Schools for Ethics); and IE ranks ninth in the world in entrepreneurship (MBA Rankings: Top Schools for Entrepre-neurship) and the tenth best in the world for leadership (MBA Rankings: Top Schools for Leadership), according to the Business Week rankings published in December 2012 and Ja-nuary 2013.

7 Spain is the third European destina-tion (after UK and France) and eighth in the world (after US, UK, France, Canada, India, Singapore and Hong Kong) amongst candi-dates throughout the world seeking to take a master’s course, according to the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which holds the international exam that can-didates throughout the world must take in order to be admitted to the best schools in the world, the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).

8 Spain is the number one host country (16.2% of total) and issuing country (15.6% of total) for ERASMUS students in the Eu-ropean Union. It is also the first host country (10% of the total) and second issuing coun-try (10.5% of total) for Erasmus teachers.

9 In professional training, GRUPO MON-DRAGÓN has created a model for academic and business management linked to the de-mand for qualified personnel in companies based on employability solutions and

▸ It is amongst the top seven best professio-nal training operators in the world, chosen by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for managing 10 Colleges of Excellence, after a rigorous selection process with over forty candidates world-wide.

AGRICULTURE SECTOR

The food sector accounts for 7,77% of GDP, surpassed only by tourism (10,3%). It is no-teworthy for its innovation and is internatio-nally renowned fot its capacity, development, R&D+I and quality. Spanish agrifood compa-nies are present throughout the world in di-fferent sectors:

1 Spain is the world’s leading producer and exporter of olive oil.

▸ Spanish company DEOLEO is the irrefu-table world leader for olive oil, with approxi-mately 22% of the global share.

2 The largest oil distributor in the world is the Spanish company BORGES, leader in over twenty five countries.

▸ Other Spanish companies such as LA ES-PAÑOLA and CARBONELL have strong market presence.

3 Spain is the world leader in production and sales of olives for consumption.

4 Spain has the largest extension of vi-neyards in the world, and is the third largest producer and second largest world exporter of wine, only after Italy and ahead of Fran-ce. Companies such as MIGUEL TORRES, MARQUES DE CÁCERES, FÉLIX SOLÍS and GONZALEZ BYASS are world-wide leaders.

5 FREIXENET is the world’s top company in the sector of quality sparkling wines and is world leader in the cava sector.

The Spanish food sector is noteworthy for its innovation and is internationally renowned for its capacity, R&D+I and high quality. Spanish agrifood companies are present throughout the world in different sectors.


6 OSBORNE is world leader in Sherry; also in the brandy sector, OSBORNE is at the top in Germany, Puerto Rico, Italy and the Philippines and number two in Mexico and the USA.

7 MIGUEL TORRES is the first brand in Europe for wine and the eleventh world-wide brand according to "The Power 100" ranking produced by the British company Intangible Business on the wine and spirits market. In 2012 it won the "World Wine Tourism Award" for its innovation in wine tourism.

8 Spain is the world’s number one expor-ter of fruits and vegetables, followed by the USA and the Netherlands.

9 The world’s number one rice and second pasta producer is a Spanish company, EBRO PULEVA.

Spain is the world’s second largest pro-ducer of almonds, only after the US. BORGES is one of the five top producers in the world for walnuts.

Spain is the second largest producer in the European Union, and fourth in the world, for pork.

Spain has the largest surface extension of greenhouses in the Mediterranean area, followed by Italy, and is the world leader in technology directed to the improvement of these crops.

Spanish company CALVO is one of the five most important canned food companies in the world with a large variety of products.

HYPERBARIC is the leading supply company in the world for high pressure pro-cessing devices for the food industry. It is part of the Nicolás Correa group.

Spain is the top EU country in surface area for organic food production.

Spain is the world´s third largest producer and second largest exporter of wine, only after Italy and ahead of France.


TOURISM AND GASTRONOMY

1 Spain is Europe’s top ranking desti-nation in tourist arrivals (Eurostat), the world’s number one holiday destination, the fourth most visited country in the world and the third-ranked destination for internatio-nal meetings. Two Spanish cities, Barcelona and Madrid, appear in the Top 100 Cities Destination Ranking according to Euromo-nitor 2013.

2 It is the second-ranked country in tou-rism revenues, only bettered by the United States and ahead of France, Italy, China and Germany. Furthermore, Spain is the world leader in the Tourism Balance Ranking (reve-nues and costs from tourism).

3 It is the world’s second-placed brand name in the tourism sector, surpassed only by the United States, according to the annual classification compiled by Bloom Consul-ting.

4 Spain is the world’s fourth most com-petitive country in the field of tourism sur-passed only by Switzerland, Germany and Austria, according to the Biannual Report on Tourism and Competitiveness compiled by The World Economic Forum (WEF). This report takes into account a wide range of va-riables, such as national legislation, environ-mental sustainability, security, infrastructu-res and cultural resources in one hundred and forty countries.

5 It is among the countries with the hig-hest tourist satisfaction levels. A total of 82% of tourists who visit Spain return.

6 Spain is Europe’s leading retirement destination.

7 It is the second country in the world in terms of UNESCO World Heritage Sites after Italy. Spain has forty-three World Heritage Sites.

8 It is the country with the second highest number of protected natural spaces declared as Biosphere Reserves by UNESCO. With a total of forty two, it is second only to the Uni-ted States.

9 It is the European country with the se-cond largest surface area dedicated to pro-tected natural spaces, with fourteen National Parks, 126 Natural Parks and more than 2000 km of Greenways (reconditioned railway li-nes) for hiking.

The largest ecological reserve in Europe, THE DOÑANA NATIONAL PARK, is located in Spain. It is also the European country with the second largest surface area devoted to protected natural spaces.

Spain has the largest number of Blue Flag Beaches in the northern hemisphere.

The Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family) in Barcelona is one of the most important works of architect Gaudi.


With a total of 511, Spain is at the head of the list of 33 countries that participate in this programme. There are also 92 yacht marinas with blue flag status.

Spain has some of the finest museums in the world. The quality of its collections makes THE PRADO MUSEUM one of the world’s most outstanding art galleries. It annually re-ceives nearly three million visitors.

THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO, the rou-te taken by pilgrims from around the world on their way to Santiago de Compostela, has been declared the First European Cultural Itinerary and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Spain is the third-ranked country in the world in hotel capacity.

Spain is the third-placed European cou-ntry in volume of air passengers, behind the United Kingdom and Germany. Three Spa-nish airports, Madrid-Barajas, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca are among the top fifteen busiest airports in Europe. The first of these, Madrid-Barajas, occupies fourth place in the rankings.

Five Spanish companies are among the top thirty most important hotel groups in the world: MELIÁ HOTELES is the leading holi-day hotel chain in the world, located in thir-ty five countries, with more than 350 hotels. The Asia-Pacific region is their most recent area of new activity. BARCELÓ, RIU, NH and FIESTA HOTELES also occupy important positions in the world rankings.

In 2010 UNESCO declared the Medi-terranean diet, specific to our country, as In-tangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The health benefits of the Mediterranean diet and its part in the prevention of chronic illnesses are scientifically proven.

Spain is the European country with the second highest number of heritage assets de-clared as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Hu-manity by UNESCO with eleven assets.

Spain is among the twenty-five nations with the highest quality of life in the world according to the 2013 United Nations Human

Development Report. Spain is the fifth-ranked country in Mi-chelin Stars, behind France, Japan, Germany and Italy, with some of the best chefs and res-taurants in the world. The great Spanish che-fs are pioneers of creative and avant-garde cuisine. They have opened renowned esta-blishments throughout the world.

▸ Ferran Adrià has been judged to be the best chef of the last decade.

▸ EL CELLER DE CAN ROCA (Girona) has been awarded the best restaurant on the 2013 list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants pro-duced by the British culinary magazine “Res-taurant”. Spain can now boast of having three restaurants among the top ten in the world (El Celler de Can Roca, Mugaritz and Arzak) and five among the top fifty.

▸ Elena Arzak received the Veuve Clicquot Worlds Best Female Chef award in 2012.

The largest restaurant in the United Kingdom, HISPANIA LONDON, is Spanish.

Spain is one of the few countries with a

culinary university, the Basque Culinary Cen-tre in San Sebastián, that includes a Research, Development and Innovation centre mana-ged by Spain’s most prestigious chefs and holders of Michelin Stars.

SPORTS

Spain is recognised as a world power in sport.

1 In football, the National Squad is the first team in the world to have achieved a Triple Crown consisting of successi-vely winning the European Championship (2008), the World Cup (2010) and another European Championship (2012). The top Spanish players are renowned throughout the world: Iker Casillas, Andrés Iniesta, Ser-gio Ramos, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres, David Villa, Cesc Fábregas, Carles Puyol, David Silva, Xavi Hernández, Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Álvaro Ar-beloa, amongst others.

▸ Among the twenty three most outstanding

Spain is Europe’s top ranking destination in tourist arrivals, the world’s number one holiday destination, the fourth most visited country in the world and the third-ranked destination for international meetings. Two Spanish cities, Barcelona and Madrid, appear in the Top 100 Cities Destination Ranking.


players selected by UEFA in the 2012 Euro-pean Championship, ten were Spanish. The participation of Spain’s biggest teams in do-mestic and European football competitions attracts great interest from fans around the globe. A wide international public follows the Spanish football league closely.

▸ Vicente del Bosque is the second interna-tional football manager to achieve the “do-uble”, consecutively winning the World Cup (2010) and the European Football Cham-pionship (2012), after the German Helmut Schön (1972-1974). In 2012, Del Bosque re-ceived the FIFA Golden Ball award as best coach.

2 REAL MADRID C.F.: According to the Forbes classifications, Real Madrid is the hig-hest valued football club in the world, with an estimated value of 3.3 billion USD. For the first time Real Madrid occupies the posi-tion held by Manchester United since Forbes created this classification in 2004. As a result, Manchester United has dropped to second place on the list.

3 F.C. BARCELONA occupies the third

position on the Forbes classification with an estimated value of 2.6 billion USD. Barcelona F.C. has recorded the highest levels of growth among clubs analysed by Forbes.

4 REAL MADRID C.F. and F.C. BARCE-LONA are the two football clubs with the hig-hest annual earnings in the world according to the Football Money League report compi-led by Deloitte. REAL MADRID C.F. heads the ranking and for the first time passes the 5 billion euro barrier.

▸ F.C. BARCELONA and REAL MADRID C.F.: With fifteen and twelve titles respecti-vely, these two Spanish clubs occupy the first and third positions in the ranking of Euro-pean football titles achieved.

▸ In continental football and basketball, REAL MADRID C.F. holds more European championship titles than any other team, with nine Champions Leagues in football (the leading number of wins) and eight Euro Leagues in basketball. F.C.BARCELONA, with four and two titles respectively, is also outstanding in handball with eight Euro-pean titles and in roller hockey with 19 Eu-

The Spanish squad is the current winner of the World Cup and European Champion-ship.


ropean trophies.5 Spain is the reigning men’s handball world Champion.

6 Spain has also been the world champion in basketball, waterpolo, futsal, roller hoc-key, rhythmic gymnastics, karate, climbing, triathlon, swimming, synchronized swim-ming and Olympic shooting, among others.

7 In tennis, the Spanish national squad has won the Davis Cup on five occasions (2000, 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2011).

8 In tennis, Spaniard Rafael Nadal is the only player in the world to have won the Ro-land Garros eight times and is considered the best clay court player ever. Carlos Moyá and Juan Carlos Ferrero have also occupied the number one position in the world ran-king.

9 In motor racing, Fernando Alonso was Formula One world champion in 2005 and 2006 and runner-up in 2010 and 2012. In ra-llying, Spanish driver Carlos Sainz was world champion in 1990 and 1992, FIA World Rally cross champion in 2007 as well as winner of 2010 Dakar Rally.

In Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Spain has been world champion on 38 occasions since Ángel Nieto won the first of his thirteen world titles in 1969. He remains the second most successful rider in history in terms of titles gained. Jorge Lorenzo is the current MotoGP world champion and Marc Márquez is champion in Moto2. In rallies, Marc Coma celebrated three outstanding victories in the Paris Dakar Rally (2006, 2009 and 2011) as did Nani Roma in 2004.

Spain is a leading force in the world of cycling. The Spanish cyclist Miguel Indura-in has been the first cyclist to have won the Tour de France on five successive occasions (1991-1995) and Alberto Contador is the last of only five cyclists in the world to have won the three Great Tours: Tour de France, Giro de Italia and Vuelta a España. Spain has also succeeded in other disciplines: in golf (Ser-gio García and previously Seve Ballesteros and José Mª Olazábal), sailing (Iker Martí-nez, Xabi Fernández, Marina Alabau, Tamara Echegoyen), canoeing (David Cal), etc.

Spain runs a pioneering system for the promotion of innovation and competi-tiveness in the sporting industry through INESPORT. The system comprises Spanish companies that manufacture sports equi-pment and manage top ranking sports fa-cilities world-wide. Thus, Samuel Sánchez won the Olympic gold on an ORBEA bicycle, Oiarzábal reached the summit of fourteen eight-thousand metre peaks using TERNUA equipment.

▸ Spain has one of the world’s best producers of the high-tech artificial turf, FIELDTURF POLIGRAS is a world leader in sporting and special flooring solutions and has been res-ponsible, among other projects for the fa-cilities in the Luzhniki Stadium, venue for various Champions League football matches.

▸ MONDO IBÉRICA is one of the world’s top companies in the production of sports surfaces and equipment and boasts its own R&D department.

▸ FLUIDRA is the world's leading producer of swimming pool equipment (owing to the climate, Spain represents more than 50% of Europe’s swimming pool market) and MSL (in alliance with ATHOS) was responsible for the electronic time keeping and packaging at the 2012 London Olympics.

Spain is recognised as a world power in sport. In football, the national squad is the first team in the world to have achieved a Triple Crown consisting of successively winning the European Championship (2008), the World Cup (2010) and another European Championship (2012).


Depósito legal: M-18042-2013NIPO: 501-13-019-3

July 2013

Gobierno de EspañaMinisterio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación

Edition: Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas InternacionalesDesign: Oficina de Información Diplomática / Javier Hernández (www.nolsom.com)Print: Oficina de Información Diplomática


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