Sant Cugat del Vallès climbs from third to first place in new companies, with 12 of the comarca's 47

From 8 to 15 October the Vallès Occidental comarca gained 47 companies, third of the 21 covered that day. Sant Cugat del Vallès signed up 12, two more than two weeks earlier, and overtook Sabadell and Terrassa. Terrassa city council pays for graffiti cleaning until 30 October and the SOC hands out 19.3 million in work experience contracts.

Sant Cugat del Vallès registers 12 of the comarca's 47 new companies, and six of those are tech firms

Sant Cugat del Vallès overtakes Sabadell and Terrassa. The BORME, the Official Gazette of the Companies Register, recorded 47 incorporations in the comarca, behind only the comarcas of Corredor del Henares, with 50, and Málaga, with 48. Two weeks ago Sant Cugat added 10, behind Sabadell and Terrassa.
Five Sant Cugat firms will code and one will do research. ATHRAIQ ATHLETES TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES S.L, GRUPO TURO DE LA PRIMAVERA S.L and three others registered on 14 and 15 October will program. SBEXON TECNOLOGICA S.L will do research. The twelve bring together 33,012 euros of share capital, the money the partners put in when founding the company.
A Cerdanyola del Vallès transport company puts in 140,000 euros. Carrying passengers, taxis and goods, it was born on 13 October (BORME) with 39.9% of the capital of the 47. ALFURO CAPITAL S.L, also from Cerdanyola, will invest in other companies.
Lorries and kitchens complete the picture. Five will mainly haul goods by road, such as APEX LOGISTICS S.L, from Barberà del Vallès, and Sabadell gets two kitchens such as ZUMI SUSHI S.L. Of the 47, 38 started with 3,000 euros.

Terrassa puts 50,000 euros into graffiti cleaning, with requests accepted up to 30 October

Terrassa and Castellbisbal put up two in every three euros

Terrassa helps remove graffiti. On 8 October Terrassa city council published in the BDNS, the National Grants Database, a 50,000 euro call for applications, the notice that opens the window to apply, to clean graffiti off façades and walls. Individuals and non-trading organisations can apply until 30 October, under its rules.
Castellbisbal funds its retail campaign with 65,400 euros. It is an agreement with the Cambra de Comerç de Terrassa, the city's chamber of commerce, under which the council pays for the Castellbisvals 2026 campaign.
Terrassa strikes four deals with local associations. Dones Periodistes de Catalunya, an association of women journalists, receives 15,000 euros, the Asociación de Magia e Ilusionismo, 10,000, Amics de les Arts i Joventuts Musicals, 7,250 and a foundation 1,500.
Montcada, Sant Cugat and Rubí fund their local organisations. Montcada i Reixac gives 33,083.76 euros to social and job inclusion and 1,800 to its photography biennial, Sant Cugat 20,000 to Senglar Cultural de La Floresta and Rubí 17,000 to the Irmandade Galega, a Galician cultural association, the Festival de Blues, the Fira de Sant Galderic and the Carrer Sant Jaume street festivities.

Eleven new building, renovation and property firms in Sabadell, Terrassa, Montcada, Rubí and Ullastrell

Sabadell holds 72% of the capital of the new bricks and mortar firms

A Sabadell builder starts out with 60,000 euros. It will build and maintain buildings and carry out electrical installations, according to the BORME of 14 October. On its own it accounts for 68.9% of the 87,020 euros of the eleven in the sector.
Terrassa adds four, between building work and property trading. On 15 October came two in building work and property sales. Before that, X22 PATRIMONI S.L, in rentals, and a developer.
Plumbing, finishes and flooring round off the sector. In Montcada i Reixac, MADNI INSTALACIONES S.L will do plumbing and electrics, REFORMAS HORIZONTE S.L started with 20 euros and another will do finishing work. Sabadell and Rubí, with PAVISTUDIO ACADEMY S.L, add two in floor and wall coverings, and Ullastrell, with PROMO MAER1517 S.L, one in civil engineering.

Rubí auctioned three homes until 13 and 14 October, including a 206 metre house

Twenty days of bidding for each Rubí home

No home auctioned that day whose notice gave its size was larger than the one in Rubí. This 206 metre detached house was built in 2004 on 549 metres of land and has a CasasValue, the value CASAS.ES estimates for every home, of 506,146 euros. It was a court auction, a public sale ordered by a judge, open until 13 October.
A 1974 house plus garage took bids until 14 October. The second has 46 metres of living space and 39 of garage, with a CasasValue of 222,768 euros. The third, with 60 usable metres, ended on 13 October. All three were on the Portal de Subastas, the auction website of the BOE, Spain's Official State Gazette, where official notices appear.

Vallès SMEs can compete for the SOC's 19.3 million to hire recent graduates

The shortest window is for work experience contracts

The SOC subsidises contracts for recent graduates. The SOC, the Catalan Public Employment Service, on 9 October announced 19.3 million for training contracts giving work experience to people who finished their studies three years ago or less. SMEs, self-employed people and organisations with no economic activity can apply.
Igualtat i Feminisme sets aside 250,000 euros for small firms. The call of 9 October from the Generalitat's Igualtat i Feminisme department pays SMEs and self-employed people with fewer than 50 staff for their equality plans, the set of measures a company adopts for equal treatment of women and men.
Four million so that young people without a job can work abroad. On 14 October the SOC opened the SOC-ALMA programme, a Generalitat programme of work placements abroad for young people who are neither studying nor working. Organisations with no economic activity can apply.
Cultural associations can bid for 400,000 euros from 21 October. The Oficina de Suport a la Iniciativa Cultural, the Generalitat office that backs cultural initiatives, shares them out to programme artistic activities in popular culture venues.

See the CasasValue of any building in Rubí, Sant Cugat del Vallès or Sabadell on the CASAS.ES map

Between 8 and 15 October, 47 companies chose this Barcelona province comarca as their address: 12 in Sant Cugat del Vallès, 10 in Sabadell, 8 in Terrassa, three each in Montcada i Reixac, Barberà del Vallès and Cerdanyola del Vallès, two in Rubí and one per municipality in Sant Quirze del Vallès, Polinyà, Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, Castellar del Vallès, Ullastrell and Ripollet. Terrassa offers grants against graffiti, Castellbisbal backs its shops, Montcada, Sant Cugat and Rubí fund associations, and Rubí saw three auctions close. The four Generalitat grants reach Gallifa, Rellinars, Sentmenat, Matadepera, Vacarisses, Badia del Vallès, Palau-solità i Plegamans, Sant Llorenç Savall and Viladecavalls too, where the BORME registered no companies.

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