Barcelona Open together with the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and the Barcelona City Council launch the second cycle of the podcast series “Commerce is also digital”

• From the hand of the journalist, Carmen Cortés, we will learn about the digitisation cases of four retail brands in the city: Ferreteria Bolibar, Grupo Sagardi, Idun and Raima.

After the success of the premiere of the first series of podcasts “Trade is digital” last January, the entity Barcelona Oberta, with the support of the City Council and the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, through of the HUB cambraDigital, have decided to release a second season. On this occasion, the interviews on digitization correspond to four retail companies that have a presence in the commercial areas of Barcelona Oberta, such as the Born, Rambla Catalunya, Barnacentre and the Eix Sagrada Família.

In each of these capsules, and by the hand of the journalist Carmen Cortés, a journalist from Betevé, the experiences in different digitization processes of recognized brands in the categories of restoration, DIY, beauty and stationery will be discussed. Through interviews with its owners and managers, the Barcelona Oberta entity wants to publicize real cases of digital transformation of businesses in the city.

With a duration of approximately fifteen minutes, the audiovisual capsules will host a new protagonist every Wednesday who will share the challenges of their businesses with a digital key. Bruna Bolibar, manager of Ferreteria Bolibar, will share his experience with “The digitization of an emblematic and familiar trade”; Juan Carlos Arriaga, Sagardi’s head of marketing and communication will explain the challenge of “How to digitize the uniqueness of a gastronomic experience”; Loli Iborra, administrator at Idun, Bienestar y Belleza, will talk to us about “Digitalization as a professionalization tool”; and finally, Núria Raja i Nil Muntané, manager and marketing director of the well-known Raima stationery shop, will explain how: “Europe’s largest stationery shop is also digital”.

The set of this series “Trade is also digital” includes the first season, with interviews with La Mallorquina, Cottet, Veritas and Aragaza, all unique brands of the city’s commercial hubs. With this initiative, Barcelona Oberta wants to contribute to improving and promoting the digital transformation of Barcelona’s commerce, to place it on a par with the main world shopping cities.

The podcast series can be heard online on the YouTube and Spotify channels of Barcelona Oberta and Cambra de Barcelona, through the web cambradigital.cat.

More about Barcelona Oberta

Barcelona Oberta is the union of 23 commercial tourist centers that share a vision of the economic and social role of retail in the city, and represent shopping tourism. They are part of Barcelona Oberta:

Agrupació de comerciants i industrials de Barceloneta – ACIB

Associació comerciants del carrer Pelai Centre i Rodalies

Associació Rambla Catalunya i Travessers

Associació Amics del Passeig de Gràcia

Associació Fundació El Molino FEM

Associació d’Amics, Veïns i Comerciants de la Rambla i Plaça Catalunya

Associació de comerciants Born Comerç

Associació comerciants Gaudí Shopping

Associació d’Amics i Comerciants de la Plaça Reial

Associació de Comerciants l’Illa Diagonal

Diagonal Boulevard

Associació de Comerciants FEM Raval

Associació Front Marítim Barceloneta

Centre Comercial Les Arenes

Diagonal Mar Centre Comercial

El Corte Inglés

L’Eix Comercial Sagrada Família

Federació d’associacions de Barna Centre

Porxos del Port

Sant Antoni Encants

Unió de comerciants Som Sant Antoni

Westfield Glòries

Xarxa de Comerç Divers de Barcelona

More about Comerç de Barcelona

The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce offers transversal services while contributing to the economic and business development of the entire productive fabric. The corporation establishes as a roadmap the Catalonia 2030/40 project, which aims to build a new economic model that contributes to drawing a more internationalized, socially responsible, environmentally sustainable and high added value Catalonia.