Roca, the leading global bathroom brand
Roca started out in 1917 as Compañía Roca Radiadores, S.A.
Nowadays, Roca Group is the parent company of a group of businesses involved in the design, manufacture and sale of bathroom products intended for the architectural, construction and interior design sectors. The group has manufacturing centres on four continents and directly employs over 18,700 people worldwide.
Roca is currently a world leader in the bathroom business and is active in more than 135 markets and have 68 plants spread across 18 countries. It also has an area dedicated to the manufacture and sale of ceramic flooring and ceramic tiling (Roca Cerámica).
Roca is a multinational corporation working in all time zones, and communicating in dozens of languages all over the world.
Roca is a wholly Spanish-owned company which has, over recent years, experienced remarkable international expansion based on the acquisition of companies in the bathroom sector in various countries around the world. In 2009 the corporation reached a turnover of 1,420 million euros.
Roca is constantly growing and is committed to innovation, technology and design. Its products currently shape experiences and lifestyles worldwide by bringing cultures together. Every day, it strives to seek and create trends in the bathroom space and bring unique solutions to a space that is constantly evolving. Roca is also a benchmark in progress, soundness and excellence. It therefore assumes its responsibility regarding sustainable development and continuous training.
Its role as a socially committed company is proactive and therefore fosters and stimulates the permanent search for new solutions that enable society’s needs to be reconciled with the specific features of each household, district, city or country. Roca is always firmly committed to the search for conceptually innovative ideas that form a bridge between today and tomorrow, between dreams and reality.
BCD, Barcelona Design Centre
With the collaboration of BCD, Barcelona Design Centre:
BCD, Barcelona Design Centre, is a foundation established in 1973 to promote and provide information to businesses on all aspects of design.
BCD promotes design as a strategic element for business excellence, as a key factor for innovation, and as a discipline that can improve people’s quality of life.
Its activities include the organisation of:
- Barcelona Design Week (annual event on Design&Business)
- Conferences, seminars and workshops
- Design competitions (at the national and international level)
- Spanish National Design Prizes in co-operation with the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade
- Design Management Award with the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce
