The Jewelry Park of Córdoba, a multi-sector business complex in which the jewelry industry predominates, currently hosts 285 companies. That is, it is 92% occupied. Rafael Ruiz, president of the venue, tells it, explaining that in In the space there are companies from both Córdoba and other areas of Spain and also foreign ones, although the majority are national. Regarding these non-Cordoban firms, they already represent thirty of the total installed ones. In 2023, the companies in Parque Joyero, including their parent companies, reached a turnover of 750 million euros.
Jewelry and watches are the predominant sectors in a 140,000 square meter facility that was initially granted to be dedicated exclusively to this industry. However, since 2008 it opened its doors to all types of companies and today it represents a good range of them. According to Ruiz, companies not related to jewelry account for 15% of the total. There are those dedicated, for example, to digital marketing, management and logistics. As a curiosity, many of them settle in Parque Joyero due to its important security measures. There are also some dental firms that manufacture dental prostheses and that share many processes with the jewelry itself.
Good moment
The president recognizes that the Córdoba jewelry store is going through a good time and has already left behind the bad figures that the coronavirus pandemic brought with it.. Around 60%-70% of the jewelry made in Spain is manufactured in Córdoba and the Jewelry Park, the epicenter of an industry historically rooted in the city, has a lot to do with it.
“The Córdoba brand is very consolidated,” emphasizes Ruiz, leaving behind the bad image it may have had years ago. This results in very good export figures.. According to the person in charge, around half of the jewelry companies in Córdoba export their products. The jewelry of this region has no rival, for example, in the production of girls’ earrings, a market where it competes with countries like France and Italy, but where Córdoba continues to win by a landslide.
As is the case in many traditional sectors, this also needs young people to take up the baton of those professionals who are beginning to retire. In this, the Jewelry Park has the best possible asset, since it shares space with the Jewelry School. As Ruiz recognizes, companies almost fight to get the students who leave school each year, showing that the sector still has a long future ahead of it..
Joyero Park has never ceased to have life, despite being somewhat far from the urban center of the Andalusian city. However, the area has begun to revitalize thanks to the inauguration of the Exhibition, Fair and Convention Center (CEFC). Both buildings form a large block just a stone’s throw from the town’s Logistics Park, which makes this area one of the most developed in the city.
However, there are still challenges to be achieved. One of them is the improvement of public transport, because although some Aucorsa buses arrive there, they do not do so with the assiduity that the situation may require. It is true, however, that by car, and therefore by taxi, the venue is a few minutes from the center of Córdoba. The possibility of installing a Cercanías stop that would serve both Parque Joyero and the CEFC was left in limbo. Adif ruled it out at the time, ensuring that the demand did not justify setting up a stop in the area.
Vital infrastructure
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Perhaps more necessary is the Western variant, an infrastructure that is of vital importance for Córdoba. In this sense, the exchange of accusations between the central government and the Junta de Andalucía appears from time to time, which forces one administration or another to speak on the issue.. However, there has been little progress since the central Executive said that it would address the project when the Board asked it and the latter responded that it had been requesting it for two years.
The history of Córdoba is linked to jewelry and in the Jewelry Park, whatever remains to be done, all of that is materialized. From the great experience and tradition that the sector has in the city, the need to open a business park dedicated exclusively to this industry was born. The objective was that all those companies in the union could see their needs satisfied for the complete development of their sales chain, hence the inauguration of the Córdoba Jewelry Park in 2005.. In 2008, at the beginning of the great economic and financial crisis, it was decided to open the doors of the park to other sectors. It should be noted that the jewelry essence has not been lost, as it is the predominant sector, but it can be considered another business area in the city.
2024-03-17 11:53:22
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