Goierri Valley has celebrated its Ordinary General Assembly presenting its activity in an act of approaching to the industries of the region at Igartza Palace of Beasain, in which it is its second anniversary since the creation of the association.

This time, special appeal has been made to the industrial companies of the region, to let to know the objectives, the participatory character and the actions that are being carried out through the association.

Goierri Valley in numbers:

The 63 companies that make up this unique industrial alliance of the world, add up to a total ammount of 4.100 million euros in sales with more than 7,500 workers in the region and production plants in 19 countries, in addition to those ones that are at the national level. In these two years of activity of the association, they have obtained an income in excess of 500,000 € to develop all the projects prioritized by the companies and of these revenues, only 21% correspond to the direct contributions of the partners.

Challenges of the association:

The asociation answers to the following challenges:

1. Intercooperation network, between Tractors and SMEs.
2. Collaboration network, between Tractors.
3. Strengthening of SMEs.
4. Visibility and notoriety.
5. Value-added services.

These are some of the strategic projects that are being carried out by the association.

Promotion of the relationships between agents of different companies:

In order to generate a suitable environment that favours the development of projects between companies in the Goierri, it is considered essential to foster relations between the people in the companies. With this objective in mind, several actions have been set in motion: presentation breakfasts and a database of representatives, among others.

-Presentation breakfasts: three companies give a brief presentation of their activity and then a breakfast is organised to encourage relations between companies.

-Database of representatives: a database has been generated with the information of all the representatives of the companies, to favour the relations between them.

Impacto Comercial Pymes:

The objective of this project is to strengthen the commercial area of industrial SMEs in Goierri, generating differential and profitable value proposals, individually as well as in collaboration.

Munduan:

The aim of this project is to assist companies in internationalisation processes and for this, several innovative initiatives have been launched. In addition to the actions being carried out in Chile and Mexico, a corporate world map has been created. This is an instrument that shows the international presence of companies from Goierri Valley, country by country. This way, if a company needs information about a specific market, through the world map they will be able to know which companies have presence in that specific market and they will be able to contact those companies directly to solve any doubts that may arise.

“Ilusión” project.

The aim of this project has been to spread a culture based on the commitment of people in the companies of Goierri and, to this end, a participative project has been set in motion, where three factors have been identified with the aim of placing people at the centre of the companies: leadership, shared project and communication.

This project, which has been co-financed through the provincial council (DFG), has been launched in response to the real needs of companies.

Win&Win: 

The objective of this project has been to initiate the process of industrial transformation of the region, through the support to industrial SMEs in order to don´t miss the train of the competitiveness, for this we have been guided by the strategic views of the leading tractor companies in different sectors. In this project, the industrial SMEs of the region have been able to carry out their strategic plan with the help of expert consultants.

Grant management: 

Goierri Valley offer to companies the advice on how to access to finantial subsidies offered by various institutions such as the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the Basque Government, etc. Till now, companies have been advised in ten projects, with the objective of obtaining financing that allows the execution of these projects. 

As we have done usual during the last weeks, we have spent this afternoon at the building NBF in order to assist to one more workshop of the project “Ilusión”. We started with this project few weeks ago and now we are at the end of the project. After working on the first two facts, during the month of April we have being working on the Communication fact, which was identified as necessary now for improving the illusion inside of our organizations.

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We finish “Ilusión” project and now is the time for companies: how can we implement the knowledge acquired during the project?

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Almost three months ago, from the association Goierri Valley we began working a project called “Ilusión” with a first macro session at the Igartza Palace in Beasain. At that session, all the associates participating decided the way of the project, choosing the factors to be worked.

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