Your journey passed through China, where have their own USB memories factory mounted in 2010, which today manufactures 1.5 million devices a year and sells more than a dozen countries. His relationship with Luarna Editions led the company to dive into the world of ebooks. In 2010 they released their first tablet and changed its trade name to BQ.
A year later they began to design and manufacture electronic readers for Telefonica and content platform for Fnac, and in 2013 began to design and sell their own smartphones. His unstoppable rise thanks to products with a good price / quality ratio and the importance they give to the customer explained. These pillars have used them to gain a foothold in a market dominated by giants like Apple and Samsung market. Something that does not scare them because, as Rodrigo del Prado, one of the founding fathers of BQ and deputy general manager of the company, "we all play by the same rules and good for the consumer to have different options," he says. Not only to customers, also for the economy of a country.
The sector registered in 2013 a turnover of over 93,000 million and 400,000 jobs
BQ is a clear success, but not alone. Other companies like Blusens, Infinity System (Airis), Wolder, AIDigital or NPG (which is listed on MAB) have also dared to try their luck in the difficult market of consumer electronics. While most devices are manufactured in Asia, pressure on prices of large groups in the sector would not put anything easier for new competitors.
Most Spanish technological start up, which is why opt for segments with lower barriers to entry, such as software and applications.
Requirements
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Sticking your head in the world of technology, in any case, is not easy. "It is an evolving field that requires curiosity, inventiveness, teamwork, international relations and, increasingly, business vision," said Benigno Lacort, director general of the employers in the technology industry Ametic.
According Lacort this sector "has some 25,000 companies (mostly small), which generated a turnover in 2013 of over 93,000 million euros and employed over 400,000 people." It is, according to the CEO of Ametic, "a field that represents a figure of between 7% and 8% of GDP."
According to ICEX, the number of workers in the ICT sector (herein include telecommunications, information technology, consumer electronics and digital content) amounts to a million and a half people if indirect jobs are added, representing 7.5% of total employment in Spain.
Opportunity
A job opportunity is growing. The European Commission estimates that by 2015 there will be in the Old Continent a shortfall of 700,000 professionals in new technologies. In Spain, the Ametic own estimates between 175,000 and 305,000 jobs to be created in the digital industry in five years.
Francisco González Bree, Deusto Business School professor and director of the Master of Business Innovation, remember that "there is a clear relationship between technology and economy. Experts from the likes of Nobel laureate Finn Kydland explains how some countries like Korea have a very high GDP in response to the integration of ICT in macroeconomic models "sector. However, according to the 2014 Global Innovation Index, Spain ranks 27th out of 143 countries.
Tablets, smartphones and other gadgets with Spanish flavor
* Blusens. This company founded in 2002 in Santiago de Compostela is specialized in consumer electronics? And offers its customers a portfolio of products distributed in "portability, digital home and networking."
* IMASD. This company designs, develops and manufactures hardware in Spain for both the consumer market and professionals, in this case on demand. It has created, for example, the first modular tablet? world.
* Airis. The firm was founded in 1998 under the umbrella of Infinity System and manufactures electronics products? And lighting. Today, with more than 500 workers who make possible the sale of 170,000 computers a year.
* Wolder. This is a 100% Spanish young company that manufactures all kinds of consumer electronics products: smartphones, tablets, 'ebooks', cameras and accessories.
* Nevir. This Spanish company has been dedicated since 1997, to consumer electronics. It is currently concentrated in the ranges of image, sound, small and large appliances, smartphones and systems? Heating and ventilation.
* Inves. Owned by El Corte Ingles, it is aimed at making computer hardware to service companies and public bodies.
* AIDigital. This firm has dedicated over 30 years? Marketing of MP3, MP4, MP5, MID (Media Internet Device) with Android, headsets, chargers and portable speaker system players.
