The story
Comsa
The groups beginnings can be traced back to 1891 when railway employee José Miarnau Navás set up company to carry out railway infrastructure work in Reus (Tarragona) called Construcciones Miarnau SA. By 1930, the company became a public company and moved its headquarters from Reus to Barcelona. After the founder died in 1934, the company changed its name to Hijos de José Miarnau Navás. By the 1940s, the company had expanded into the general civil engineering field – building bridges, buildings and roads. By the 1980s, the company had expanded from its base in Catalonia having projects in Asturias, Andalusia, Galicia and Castile and León, and had also entered the real estate and aggregates businesses. The 1990s, brought further diversification as well as the beginnings of an international presence with a subsidiary Fergrupo in Portugal.
After its merger with Estudios, Montajes y Tendidos Eléctricos (EMTE) in 2009, it was renamed COMSA EMTE, but in 2015 it became part of the COMSA corporation, which was organized into three business areas: Infrastructure and Engineering, Services and Technology, Concessions and Renewable Energies. By 2010s, the international business had grown, exceeding twenty countries and reaching half of the company's turnover. In the 2020s, the company had presence in ten countries and it diversified its activity towards sectors such as the environment, rail transport, renewable energies and concessions.
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