The startup Nadie Sin Su Racion Diaria driven Lanzadera de Juan Roig, raises 100,000 euros for Food Banks with its digital donation system - Nobody Without Their Daily Ration– a technological startup driven from the Shuttle of the president of Mercadona, Juan Roig-has just signed an agreement with the Spanish Federation of Food Banks (FESBAL) and its 54 associated Food Banks to expand its digital donation system throughout Spain.

Therefore, the company has activated its mobile application throughout the peninsula and has installed totems (donation machines) in the provinces of Valencia, Alicante, Murcia and Córdoba; in addition to Castellón, city of origin and pilot of the project.

The founders of the company, Kilian Zaragozá and Josevi Villarroig, began designing the project 4 years ago and managed to launch it last August 2020. In the first 6 months of life they have managed to raise about 100,000 euros, with an average of donations per person around 20 euros, both through the app and 2 totems in supermarkets.

"One of the strongest social components integrated into the project is the commitment to social welfare through the implementation of measures to combat climate change. With the digital donation process and wallet cards, it is intended to reduce tons of CO₂, limiting the distribution channels of food that reach the most disadvantaged people, in addition, it seeks that beneficiaries can purchase food according to their needs”, explains Kilian Zaragozá, CEO of startup Nadie Without His Daily Ration.

Startup Nadie Sin Su Racion Diaria driven Lanzadera

The company that is being promoted by Juan Roig's platform, they point out, “arises from the need to address a social problem, transforming the traditional donation system based on the timely and physical collection of food, something aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic”.

The mobile app allows you to make a donation quickly, wherever and whenever the user wants, 365 days a year. At the same time, the totems serve to reinforce both the amount of donations, as well as the knowledge and dissemination of the system and digital change, especially in older age groups, less familiar with new technologies, by allowing them to make donations in person in the different supermarket chains attached to the project.

Startup Nadie Sin Su Racion Diaria driven Lanzadera

The operation of both donation channels is simple: the donations made through the app arrive in full to the Spanish Federation of Food Banks (FESBAL), who distributes the wallet cards to the associated Food Banks of the provinces where the donations have been made. On the other hand, totems allow the donations collected to be managed by the Food Bank of each province.

“Beyond the seasonal breakdown of the system of physical donations and the agility of the process, this model favors equal opportunities and social inclusion, by guaranteeing the access of beneficiaries to food and basic necessities, " they say

Startup Nadie Sin Su Racion Diaria driven Lanzadera: The tool, in addition to facilitating the obtaining of the tax relief certificate for donations, allows the process to be completely transparent through the blockchain; that is, the registration of the traceability of donations to know their destination.

The objective of the startup Nobody Without Its Daily Ration “is to grow progressively, including 2 more Food Banks each month, to collaborate with the 54 Food Banks associated with FESBAL, with totems, and with the potential to multiply by 15 the collection capacity, according to figures obtained in the 6 months of pilot test, thanks to being a skillful system 365 days a year”, concludes Kilian Zaragozá.

The director of FESBAL, Miguel Fernández, emphasizes that, " for the Federation, this type of extraordinary projects are essential in this new scenario generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with which the associated Food Banks can continue to support 1,560,000 beneficiaries who come for food aid”.

Startup Nadie Sin Su Racion Diaria driven Lanzadera

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DHL announces investments of 130 million euros in Spain and new facilities in another 9 points of the country in the next 3 years

The bonanza in the logistics sector during the coronavirus pandemic, in which its activity has skyrocketed due to the growth of e-commerce, is maintained during 2021. In the case of a global multinational such as DHL, Spain is seeing an upturn in its B2B and B2C channels, in the size of its workforce and in the total investments planned to sustain this growth.

So what has recognized this Thursday Miguel Borrás, director general of DHL Express in Spain and Portugal, during a meeting with the press in which he has highlighted that in 2020 recorded a turnover of 360 million euros, in addition to announcing the next investment of the multinational in Spain, the opening of new facilities and the celebration of their Prizes, DHL Atlas 2020, which recognizes smes in spain due to his talent and ability to export.

In addition, Borrás has highlighted that the segment between companies or B2B has registered a growth in its shipments of 20% year-on-year in the first half of the year, despite noting that the smes in this sector have suffered a lot during the pandemic, and an advance of 30% in B2C, service to consumers, which has been supported by the rise of electronic commerce, in addition to anticipate a sustained growth during the rest of 2021.

The director general of DHL Express in the Iberian Peninsula has been argued that these results imply that the company has exceeded their levels prepandemia, with increases of activity in respect of 2019 of more than 50% in B2C and around 5% in B2B, highlighting the economic recovery after the pandemic in smes B2C dedicated to fashion, sports, cosmetics or consumer electronics, and in B2B has been clarified that the health, technology, engineering, automotive or manufacturing "have come out reinforced".

Miguel Borrás stressed that his goal, despite being a multinational, is to develop everything that contributes to growth, highlighting the majority role of SMEs in Spain and its orientation to offer solutions to this segment without neglecting its largest customers. Regarding internationalization, he has assured that the main markets remain and that Brexit, although it gave problems at the beginning of 2020, has not prevented its shipments to the United Kingdom from growing.

To support this growth, Borrás has announced that the company will undertake investments in the next 2 or 3 years valued at 130 million euros, which will be used to increase its facilities, electric delivery vehicles and its workforce. In fact, as far as employment is concerned, the DHL manager said that last year its workforce increased by 20%, which translates into 400 new jobs and extended hours.

As for its facilities, he stressed that they are scheduled to open in September in Zaragoza and Bilbao and in November in Vigo, for which they will invest about 10.7 million euros, while in the next 2 or 3 years they have planned new facilities at the airport of Santiago de Compostela and Madrid-Barajas and in Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante and Girona. "Growth forces us to invest," he said.

In addition to these investments in Spain, Miguel Borrás explained that its parent group, the German Deutsche Post DHL, has planned investments of 7,000 million euros until 2030 in the countries in which it is present, with the goal that by that date 80,000 electric vehicles have been deployed for last mile deliveries, which will result in an electrification of 60% of the fleet and be able to reach the goal of having a carbon neutral footprint by 2050.

The managing director of DHL Express in Spain and Portugal has also detailed that the company will celebrate this year the DHL Atlas Export Awards that it canceled last year due to the pandemic and highlighted that companies and startups can register until September 12, whether or not DHL customers, to qualify for one of the 4 awards it offers, dedicated to export, sustainability, e-commerce and innovation.

Borrás pointed out that these awards serve to recognize and support the trajectory, team, diversity and achievements in innovation and sustainability of Spanish companies and SMEs that export, with a grand export award that grants funding to the sme that wins it to develop a commercial mission to a country of its choice to continue opening new international markets.