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At the end of the nineteenth century, in the context of the economic
and social resurgence of Catalonia, the Industrial Confectionery
Centre of Barcelona was founded. The foundation of this association,
though bringing together a group of professionals with a traditional
artisan background, would mark the start of the modernisation of the
entire confectionery sector in our country. The association’s initial activities were focused on representing the
interests of its members to public institutions and society, both in
terms of festive activities (for example, a procession organised by
the Barcelona City Council in 1902) and politically and legally (the
proposal for the sector’s exemption from the law obliging shops to
close on Sundays in 1904, and the introduction of collective insurance
in 1911).
More than 300 guild members attended a guild luncheon in 1916 and a
few years later the first issue of the magazine "Dulcería Artística e
Industrial" (Artistic and Industrial Confectionery) was published. The
Guild continued to evolve in terms of the services offered to its
members, incorporating, for example, legal and financial advice from 1929.
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