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  • Brief study about companies in Galicia.

    We first describe some data about the situation of companies in our region, Galicia, and also about our speciality, information technology. Below there is a short description about some Galician companies.

    Number of companies by sectors.

    Largest companies according to worker count in Galicia.

    Nowadays, employees get contracts for very limited amounts of time, making worker counts only updated for a week.

    However, there are some companies that stand out:

    • INDUSTRIA DE DISEÑO TEXTIL SA (Inditex), which holds 9 out of the top 15 companies ranked by turnovers, getting over a billion euros on benefits.

    • PEUGEOT CITROEN AUTOMOVILES ESPAÑA, having more than 5 billion on turnovers, although not as much benefit.

    • METALURGICA GALAICA SA, billing nearly a billion, but not getting benefit out of it.

    • VEGO SUPERMERCADOS SA and GADISA RETAIL SL, the two biggest supermarket chains, employing people all over Galicia.

    Number of companies dedicated to computer technologies in Galicia, classified by specialities.

    Most demanded jobs

    The most sought jobs in Galicia this year 2015 are related to: professional sales and marketing (46%), computer technicians and telecommunications engineers (14%), and customer service (13%). Moreover, the professions where there is less chance of finding work are: graphic arts, dependents and designers, as there is high demand for few jobs.

    Short description of some companies

    Dinahosting

    I will talk about Dinahosting , a Galician company dedicated to domain registration, hosting, VPS (Virtual Private Server) and dedicated servers. It was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Santiago de Compostela.

    The company has approximately 122.000 users and is regarded as one of the leaders of the sector in Spain. In 2014 the turnover was 12.048.704 €, nearly a million and a half more than the previous year. Furthermore, the company has 89 people on staff and is open to new employees.

    Mestrelab

    Mestrelab is a company that makes specific software for chemical laboratories.

    It has about 12 employees in Galicia, and more workers in other countries. It makes about 5 million euros per year.

    The big strength of Mestrelab is that it only has one company that can compete with it, and it has strong contracts with big universities like Yale, Chicago, Oxford...but it has a lot of private enterprise partners like Bayer, John or Pfizer.

    The big weakness of Mestrelab is that it sells a too-specific product, which means that the target market of the products is only a few laboratories, and that it faces threat from its competitor.

    The mission of Mestrelab is to deliver top-quality software tools for scientific research and to continuously strive to push the state-of-the-art in graphical user interfaces, sofware integration and sofware science. We shall keep R&D as the primary focus and heart of our company.

    Coremain

    Coremain is a Galician company in the information, telecommunication and technology sector. The company is dedicated to service
    management and software development. Currently it has 400 workers.
    People working in Coremain have a few values to follow as a team. There are four key principles that reflect the corporate culture of the company:

    • Transparency: We are what we seem.
    • Innovation: its the best action for growth.
    • Talent: We have a permanent learning attitude. We don't accept mediocrity.
    • Collaboration: Coremain is a shared project. Our success is the sum of all those who make up the team.

    Coremain executes its activity responsibly and with commitment, and therefore is one of the pillars on which the organization rests— both with their employees and customers and with society in general.
    Corporate social responsibility is one of the pillars on which the organization rests.