After the Spanish Civil War had drawn to a close in 1939, JOAQUIM PARDÀS VIDAL, a pork butcher who had been running his own shop in calle de Santa Eugènia since 1921, decided to build a new cold meat and sausage production facility by the Pont de la Barca in what was then the outskirts of Girona. The architect Ignasi Bosch Reig was entrusted with the project and he designed and constructed a building that served as a factory, a shop and a place to live in lending it a modernist feel that it retains to this day. In 1942 the factory began producing Fuets, salchichones (dried-cured pork sausagespork sausage) and butifarras (Catalonian sausage). To begin with these products were supplied mainly to the local market although they later became available throughout the region and the rest of Spain. Twenty years later, his nephew, EMILI CAULA QUINTANAS, took charge of the factory modernising the facilities and helping the company to expand its market. Emili’s son, JOAQUIM M. CAULA PARDÀS, took over in 1976, expanding the original factory and building a new one alongside it in various phases. In 1989 the company began to supply markets outside Spain and was awarded an EEC type approval certificate in 1991. In 1992, the fourth generation of the family, Joaquim’s sons XAVIER and then EDUARD, joined the company thereby guaranteeing continuity. Their appointments as Production and Factory Manager and Sales and Marketing Director allowed the company to reach new heights and led to two new floors being added to the new factory. The new facilities – drying rooms and a storage area – were opened in 1998..   In view of the fact that pre-packed products were becoming increasingly popular and units of sale ever smaller, the company decided to set up a new sterilised slicing facility in order to cut its products into slices. The company purchased an automatic slicer and a thermoform packaging machine and in 2000 the new slicing and vacuum and modified atmosphere packaging section began operating. Ever mindful of the fact that quality and stringent controls are essential factors in today’s market, the company was awarded ISO 9002 Certification by Bureau Veritas Quality Internacional on 3 August 2001. At Girona Town Hall in 2003 the company unveiled a project for the construction of a 1,700m2 facility at a site adjoining the existing factory. The facility is designed to meet the company’s future expansion needs and to guarantee its continued growth.