The big Catalan businessmen are going to 'stop' Artur Mas and his pro-indepen...

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The situation has gotten out of hand” The big Catalan businessmen are going to stop Artur Mas's independence aspirations in their tracks. They believe that the situation "has gotten out of hand." They are defenders of the Spanish single market, in which almost all of them operate, and their concern is that important multinationals, such as Nissan or SEAT, choose to leave Catalonia. Artur Mas asked the Catalan employers before the independence announcement: someone told him that nothing would happen because “no one invests in Catalonia” and the President believed it Freixenet and Codorníu do not expect a boycott of cava at Christmas: the independence turn in Catalonia has not 'attacked' the Spanish as happened with Carod Rovira from Catalan business sources, the immediate message that the businessmen are going to convey to Artur Mas is clear: they do not agree with his pro-independence drift, due to the serious economic consequences that it could have for Catalonia. They are willing to do everything possible to 'stop him' . Some of these large employers are already privately forcing the president of the Generalitat to park his sovereigntist projects. “The situation has gotten out of hand ,” says an important Catalan manager consulted by ECD .

As told in these pages - see it here -, Artur Mas asked the Catalan employers about the effects that an independence offensive would have on investment in Catalonia, someone misinformed told him that nothing would happen because no one invests in the community anymore. and he believed it. Massive flight of multinationals The Middle East Mobile Number List  possibility that a large number of multinationals will choose to leave Catalonia if Artur Mas insists on his independence plans is an issue that is already being considered among senior managers of large Catalan companies. Catalonia brings together a significant number of multinational chemical, pharmaceutical, automobile, electronics, IT, food. Companies such as Nissan, SEAT, Nestlé, Danone, Lidl or Sony , with plants in the autonomous community, would be affected by the entry into force of tariffs for exports, or the use of a currency other than the euro , in the case of a separation of Catalonia from the rest of Spain. “This new situation would significantly increase costs for all these companies, which would lead many of them to consider whether it is worth it or whether it makes sense to continue in Catalonia ,” explain the sources consulted.



Furthermore, they can hardly integrate into their business strategy a segmentation of the Spanish market, which for all of them is unique . Catalan family businesses Nor are the cases of La Caixa and Banco Sabadell overlooked among prominent Catalan executives , where two-thirds of their activity is in the rest of Spain, so any alignment with Catalan nationalism would be lethal for their business. Companies such as Planeta, Puig, Codorníu and Freixenet are also in this same situation . Other companies, such as Mango, Grifols, Abertis, Roca, Pronovias, Cementos Molins and Gas Natural , are less dependent on the Spanish market due to the internationalization strategies they have implemented in recent years. These companies sold more outside Spain in ( 53% ) than in the rest of the autonomous communities. It does not represent the Catalan feeling The business sector of Catalonia considers that Mas has been encouraged to raise the flag of independence after the Catalan Diada  .