Moventia supporting research on Alzheimer’s Disease

Faithful to its values and Corporate Social Responsibility Policy, Moventia actively participates and collaborates with over 50 non-profit organisations. On this occasion, it is pleased to announce its membership of the Patronage Council of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation. Moventia has made a contribution that will be donated in full to the Clinical Research on the Prevention of Dementia Unit, specifically the Alpha Study. 

At a recent visit by Miquel and Sílvia Martí, Chairman and Secretary of the Board of Directors, to the innovative installations owned by the foundation, its Director, Jordi Camino, wished to share and highlight the objectives and details of the research being conducted by the Alpha Study:

“We know that the damage caused to the brain by Alzheimer’s Disease may have silently begun up to 20 years before the first symptoms appear. We need to anticipate this, study what happens to the brain years before Alzheimer’s Disease develops. Our goal is to take action before it is too late and the damage is already irreversible”.

For this reason, Moventia is pleased and proud to be taking part in such a socially important initiative at a global level, in which the figures speak for themselves:

– 2,734 volunteer children of people with Alzheimer’s Disease
– 50 professionals
– 9,891 visit hours
– 10,892 samples to the Biobank
– 78,963 cognitive tests
– 421 magnetic resonance scans

We remain committed to research and its success for contributing to a better society!

Transport company IZARO joins Moventia group

The expansion department of Moventia is pleased to announce that, following the group’s strategic lines of action for growth, diversification and consolidation in the field of mobility, Moventia has become a shareholder of Autocares IZARO – a benchmark company in the discretionary passenger transport service sector.

We have the pleasure of presenting to you a company with over 48 years of experience, positioning it as one of the best options for mobility services and vehicle and coach rental services catering for all sorts of leisure activities, tourism, incentives, conferences, conventions, school trips and major events to the highest standards of quality.

IZARO employs a team of over 180 professionals seeking a common goal: to meet the needs of all the customers using their discretionary and regular services.

IZARO has a large fleet of coaches and premium discretionary transport vehicles. A total of 130 vehicles with an average age of 6.2 years includes several highly exclusive vehicles with luxury interiors for its premium Izaro Status services. These are all equipped with the latest market innovations, both in terms of comfort and safety (ISO 9001:2008 for quality, ISO 14001:2004 for environmental issues, OSHAS 18001:2007 for occupational health and safety; ISO 39001:2013 for road safety management and UNE 13816:2003 for regular transport), and are fully adapted for persons with reduced mobility. 

Welcoming IZARO into the Moventis group—with its history, tradition and strength in the sector—will strategically consolidate the period of growth undertaken by the group in recent years and bring complementarity and synergies at both a regional level throughout its sphere of influence and at an operational level with the other companies in the group, which also operate regular and discretionary services and are fully aligned with the Moventis mentality to offer the best response to any mobility need expressed by people, companies and institutions. The current management team at IZARO will continue to be led by Manuel and Diego Tena (from the second generation of the family) and by Manuel’s children Mari-Cel and Kevin Tena (third generation), who are the Commercial Director and Fleet and Garage Manager, respectively. They will all maintain their current roles at the company headquarters in Zona Franca (Calle Virgen María del Puerto in Barcelona), at their magnificent and fully-equipped 18,000 m2 installations that include both offices and parking areas.

The companies Poch, Calella Moventis, Emilio Seco, Carrilets Turístics, Izaro, Pujol and the discretionary services departments of Sarfa and Casas now make up a new vehicle and coach rental services business area that will be run by Miquel Martí Pierre, who will combine these responsibilities with his role in the group’s expansion area. 

The entire IZARO team can now count on the full support of everyone at Moventis and Moventia and, by warmly welcoming them into the fold, we hope that this will be the start and future basis of a new period of ongoing success for us all.

Sarfa in the TV program “Diners”

 

This week, Moventia has appeared in the TV program “Diners” from TV3. In particular, Enric Gimero, Sarfa Manager, who has spoken about the low-cost transportation, in particular, about OuiBus, the company which Sarfa operates and which connects Spain with France and Italy with an attractive offer in prices and services.

 

Diners; 49’36’’ – 51’34’’: http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies-vespre/telenoticies-vespre-llengua-de-signes-18092017/video/5689130/

Diners: 52’15’’ – 53’56’’: http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies-vespre/telenoticies-vespre-19092017/video/5689364/#

Diners: 1h 45’05’’- 1h 42’38’: http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/telenoticies-vespre/telenoticies-vespre-20092017/video/5689553/

 

 

 

Moventia seals agreements with cultural organisations

 

Moventia, following their collaborative strategy as framed in their Corporate Social Responsibility programme, has sealed different agreements with important cultural organisations in our country as: Liceu, Fundació Catalunya Cultura and Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès. These agreements mean a long-term collaboration in terms of economic contribution such as services which allow each organisation to accomplish the objective of preserving and promoting the culture, as much as from our country as from the other countries.

 

We hope and wish these agreements to be fruitful so they can carry the name of Moventia to further levels and environments from our activities that we want to have closer every time.

 

 

Stern Motor Padel Tennis Tournament in Terrassa

From 12 to 22 June, some quality padel tennis was enjoyed at the Club Atlètic Hockey Terrassa.

Gustavo Oliva and Alberto Pérez emerged victorious in the Men’s A category, who played a thrilling match against Jesus Fernández and Jordi Bartres. The champions in the Women’s A category were Eli Andrade and Lidia Prieto, who beat Carlota Sala and Meritxell Torrecilla in an exciting match.

The champions and runners-up in the Stern Motor Padel Tennis Tournament were given trophies to recognise their sporting victories. The highest-ranking Mercedes-Benz customers will be invited to play in the National Final with a partner of their choice from 8 to 11 September at Reserva del Higuerón (Malaga).

Besides the traditional trophy award ceremony, Stern Motor closed its Tournament with a generous prize draw full of next-generation items from Dunlop Sport and a great cocktail party that was highly enjoyed by all those present.

The 8th Stern Motor Padel Tennis Tournament, which forms part of the Mercedes Tennis & Padel Tennis Tour (a leading and benchmark circuit in Spanish amateur sport), concluded with successful results in terms of both sport and participation.

Stern Motor winning company 2017 Sensia Award

On 6 June, Mercedes-Benz España S.A.U. presented its 13th Sensia Award. Mr. Reiner Hoeps and Mr. Carlos Salto, General Manager Cars of Mercedes-Benz España and Sales Network Director, respectively, presented the award to the managers of the 10 winning dealerships.

Stern Motor was recognised at this event, thereby making it a benchmark company within the Mercedes-Benz network and reaching a new milestone in Spain: Stern Motor is the only dealership to have received an award at all 13 editions. This year, the award was collected by the Manager of Stern Motor, Joan Bta. Colomer Mirabell, and the dealership’s Quality Manager, Carmen Enrech.

The winning companies are a demonstration that the Mercedes-Benz brand is a leader not only in the products it brings to market but also in the excellence of its after-sales and sales processes in the Dealership Network focused on optimising the service offered to all of the brand’s customers every day.

Historic Moventis buses take part in film about the Olympic Games

This week, the historic Moventis buses became luxury supporting actors in the film being made in Barcelona about the period in history surrounding the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games entitled “Amics per sempre” [Friends Forever]. 

The three buses got dressed up for the occasion, as did the drivers who drove them to the set, who were dressed in period clothing as extras. The filming was long and intense but the result will undoubtedly be worthy of the highest praise. We would like to thank the drivers who volunteered to take part in this adventure and all members of the team at the Vallès de Automoción garage and Transportes Ciutat Condal who look after our historic buses so well. We will be looking out for the release of this film to see them in action!

 

Presentation of the 2016 IRU Awards

The 2016 Honorary IRU Diplomas were presented to nine drivers on 12 June. These awards are presented by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) to recognise the best national and international road drivers, whether passenger or goods transport, who have honoured the profession through service and moral qualities.

The following conditions must be met to receive such an award:

– To have practised the profession of driver to the complete satisfaction of their company non-stop for at least 20 years.

– To have been with their most recent company for at least five years and to have driven at least 1,000,000 kilometres in national or international traffic.

– To not have caused any serious road traffic accidents (with physical injuries) in the last 20 years.

– To not have seriously broken any customs, administrative or traffic regulations in the last five years.

The recipients this year were:

Sarfa: Isidoro Sanchez, Juan Ramón Santos, Pablo Nieto, Rafael Segura, Santiago Pérez and Víctor Esteves

Sarbus: Francisco Javier Mazuque, José Benavides and Jesús Mª García (2014)

Our congratulations to all of them

2017 Catalan Mobility Conference

The Catalan Mobility Conference took place on 7 June and was attended by some 350 people at the Els Costals Auditorium in Castellbisbal to hear the Councillor for Regional Affairs and Sustainability of the Regional Government of Catalonia, Josep Rull, among others. This was the 13th such conference and was organised, as it is every year, by the AMTU to examine the role played by council authorities in mobility and improving it.

Under the title of ‘The Future of Public Transport in Catalonia’, Councillor Rull gave the conference’s opening address, speaking about the need for mobility to respect the environment, among other things. According to Josep Rull, “we have a very important problem with air pollution and climate change” at the moment and public transport forms part of the solution to these two problems.

The councillor’s speech came just after the opening talks, which were led by the AMTU Chairman, Jordi Xena, and the Mayor of Castellbisbal, Joan Playà.

Moventis was represented by a sizeable delegation led by Josep Maria Martí (Managing Director) and Joan Giménez (General Manager).

To tackle the effects of air pollution and reduce them, the AMTU Chairman encouraged everyone attending to take part in a new session of the Catalan Mobility Conference that will also take place in Castellbisbal, in October.

Aleix Espargaró and Sam Lowes at Motospazio

On Thursday 8 June 2017, and coinciding with the Moto GP held at the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit in Montmeló, the top category riders Aleix Espargaró and Sam Lowes from the Aprilia Racing team paid a flying visit to Motospazio. The young riders from the top category, Moto GP, were signing autographs at Calle Calvet 49 in Barcelona from 18:30 to 19:00. Visitors were able to take part in a prize draw to win two tickets to see the Moto GP at the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit that was held on the following weekend, from 9 to 11 June. Aleix Espargaró was the man responsible for randomly picking a winner from the draw.

Furthermore, all visitors took home a free poster and were given the chance to buy an Aprilia cap for only € 7.

The whole event took place in a vibrant atmosphere surrounded by genuine competition motorbikes, such as the Aprilia Tuono 125, the RS 125 and the spectacular RSV4.

Aleix Espargaró is one of the Catalan Moto GP riders who returned to the top category in the world motorcycling championship in 2012 and won the championship in the CRT category that very same year. This season, he is competing with one of the brands represented by Motospazio, Aprilia. According to statements made during an interview with the sports newspaper Marca, the rider said that this change had let him be himself again on the track.

Sam Lowes, a British rider who joined the same motorcycle racing category in the same year, won the Supersport World Championship in 2013.