Vice President

Abantia completes the year 2011 with a turnover of 279 million and expands its presence in Europe, America and Asia. The engineering group Abantia achieved a turnover of 279 million euros in the year 2011 and thus achieved a growth of 10% compared to the prior year. The operating profit reached 17 million, 41 percent more than the previous year. “Thanks to the internationalisation and the diversification of our business activities, we have managed to grow”, says the Vice President of the group, Joan Gumma. The international markets grew in the past year by 35% and now account for 23% of the total turnover of the company. Abantia is now present in six European countries, America and Asia. The Vice President of the company forecasts that revenues from international markets 2012 will rise further, because last year they accounted for exactly one-third of the total turnover.

Abantia has 2,300 employees and has been since the year 2011 in Mexico, Guatemala, and Qatar represented. Joan Gummaerwartet this year the first income from El Salvador and Abu Dhabi. T cuento society T-cuento, in turn, the Abantia group and specializes in the design and development of systems to the passenger rate measurement at the point of sale, could triple the revenue in 2011 as compared to the previous year, plus the presence in Germany and France also. The specialisation, flexibility and endurance by T-cuento are the main reasons that have led to that the company could consolidate its activity on the Spanish retail market and 2010 to triple revenues to. According to alvaro Angulo, CEO of T-cuento, “the crisis has meant that companies invest in analysis tools to optimize the performance of the retail stores: enter as many customers and how long they stay in the business, how many of them buy something or go to have made without a purchase, which are the most frequented hours on the day, etc. to” is the flexibility of our product that we have fully developed, allowing that we best can adapt to the needs of our customers.” T-cuento began his business activities on the French market in the first quarter of 2011 and a distribution Alliance with the company completed Luxiona, in November the market entry in Germany followed suit with a contract between T-cuento and company Sattler object light GmbH. alvaro Angulo expresses, “internationalization is our growth strategy for the year 2012 and our next target is Canada.”