Grupo Agbar
| Grupo Agbar / Aguas de Barcelona | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | water all-related |
| Founded | 1867 |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
Key people | Jordi Mercader Miró (Chairman of the board and CEO) |
| Products | distribution, treatment ...etc |
| Revenue | €167,3 billion (2006) |
Number of employees | 25,000 (2006) |
| Website | http://www.agbar.es/ |
Grupo Agbar, (Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona, SA), (IBEX-35:AGS) is a Spanish company dedicated to services, distribution or treatment of water. The company was founded in 1867 in Liege as Compagnie des Eaux de Barcelone by a investor from France and Catalonia. The group is present in almost all the continents as North America, South America, Asia and Europe. The headquarters are in Barcelona and the chairman is Jordi Mercader Miró. The company is within of IBEX-35.
Grupo Agbar is constituted by more than 230 companies and with more than 130 years of history. Grupo Agbar is world-wide leader as much in the scopes that constitute the essential axis of their activities related to the cycle of the water like in the sectors of activity that the new society demands, specially in those of services of health, certification, construction and communications networks.
