Sal Costa

In 1846 the company founded by Onofre Caba began marketing activities salt under the name Sal Caba.Quickly, this enterprising industrialist Barcelona, ​​two businessmen, Mr. Cuyás and Joaquin Costa Gomis came together to form a society whose aim was the marketing of different staples for the period: salt, rice, pulses, etc.

In the 1880s, the company's products already enjoyed a high reputation. It is at this time that the Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Barcelona published an opinion on the quality and benefits of salt marketed by the Office of Joaquin Costa. Costa Sal is also present at major events of the period, highlighting the Universal Exposition in Barcelona in 1888, Chicago in 1893 and Paris in 1899, among others.

The efforts of the three partners made the company the first to offer an anhydrous salt, which means the first step towards a dry salt. This revolutionary method and form of packaging caused the admiration of consumers and competition, so in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century, Don Joaquín Costa methodology and patented manufacturing process, becoming the first company in Spain which it held a patent on a method of manufacturing dry salt. It is the time of the Industrial Revolution and the activity is freneti