Grupo Agbar

Infobox Company
company_name = Aguas de Barcelona
Aigües de Barcelona
company_
company_type = Public (BMAD|ES0141330C19|AGS)
foundation = 1867
location = Barcelona, Spain
key_people = Jordi Mercader Miró (Chairman of the board and CEO)
industry = Utilities
products = Treatment and distribution of water
revenue = €167,3 billion (2006)
num_employees = 25,000 (2006)
parent = Suez Environnement and Criteria
homepage = http://www.agbar.es/

Grupo Agbar ("Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona, SA", BMAD|ES0141330C19|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 an 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.

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.

A joint acquisition bid by Suez (now Suez Environnement) and Criteria CaixaCorp, concluded in January 2008, resulted in the two companies controlling around 90% of Agbar's shares. Suez and Criteria have stated that they do not intend to delist Agbar from the Madrid Stock Exchange, instead gradually increasing the free float percentage of the company's shares from ten to thirty percent with two years. [Cite news
title = Suez, Criteria plan for 30 pct Agbar free float
publisher = Reuters
date = 18 January 2008
accessdate = 2008-01-19
url = http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSL1885192220080118]

References

External links

* [http://www.agbar.es/ Official website]