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Expert guides, analysis and tool comparisons on Spain Company Stories from the kurums.com Startup desk — written for business decision-makers and updated as the market moves.
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- Updated Sep 4, 2026
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FC Barcelona: How a Club With No Shareholders Escaped a €1.35bn Debt Crisis
The palancas, the €1.45bn stadium loan and the salary cap: how a members’ club with no equity to sell rebuilt itself to €1bn of revenue.
Real Madrid: The Members’ Club That Built a €1.2 Billion Business
How a member-owned club with no shareholders financed a €1.4bn stadium, reached €1.2bn of revenue and now plans to sell a minority stake.
Europe Taxed Chinese Cars. Spain Invited the Factories.
Countries with national champions protect them. Countries that host other people’s factories compete to host more. Spain is firmly in the second group.
Spain Owns No Car Brands and Several Global Component Groups
Everyone discusses the assembly plants Spain hosts. The interesting half is the component multinationals Spain owns.
Two Gigafactories, Two Bets: Spain’s Battery Manufacturing Test
One manufacturer thinks cells are a core competence. The other thinks they are a specialist process. Both are testing the theory in Spain.
Spain Builds Europe’s Second-Most Cars and Owns None of the Brands
Second in Europe by output, with no domestic manufacturer and every strategic decision taken in Wolfsburg, Paris or Amsterdam.
SEAT and CUPRA: Where Europe Is Building Its Cheap Electric Cars
Volkswagen concluded its cheap electric cars could not be built profitably in Germany. Martorell got the work — and the margin pressure that comes with it.
Barcelona and Madrid: Spain’s Two Startup Ecosystems
Two cities, two characters, one shared constraint: value gets created in Spain and captured through holding companies somewhere else.
Spain Ran Europe’s Telecom Experiment: Four Operators to Three
Operators say consolidation funds investment. Regulators say it raises prices. Spain is now the live test of which is right.
Indra: How Spain Is Building a Defence Champion
A listed company with a 28% state shareholder, an explicit consolidation mandate, and a former chairman now running the national telecom operator.
Telefónica: When the Shareholders Changed, Everything Followed
A Saudi group bought 10%, the Spanish state bought 10% back, the chief executive of 18 years left, and the strategy changed. In that order.