The Barcelona-based studio turns twenty years old as a benchmark in sustainable mobility design, with 70% of its business generated in foreign markets.
The Barcelona industrial design studio Ànima Design closed last year with a turnover of 1.2 million euros, a 49% increase compared to 2020.
The studio, which has become a benchmark in sustainable mobility design, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Aside from its Barcelona headquarters, it has offices in San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa) and in China, in the city of Shenzhen. Diego Quiroga, CEO and founder, explains how the company has not stopped growing since its creation two decades ago: “we started in Barcelona as three people, two partners and an administrator, and we currently have a team of 27 people distributed across our three offices in Barcelona, San Sebastián, and Shenzhen. We began working primarily for leading Catalan companies in their sectors such as Freixenet, Casals, and Vieta, among others.”
Its most relevant products include Volta, the innovative, entirely electric motorbike; Oohbike, the new electric bicycle with a spoke-less front wheel, named electric bicycle of the year 2021; and the new range of Bluetooth headphones for Vieta.
Aside from the close relationship with China, Ànima Design has worked in other markets, to the extent that exports currently account for 70% of the company’s business. Europe is its main market with 60% of turnover, Asia with 30% (having maintained its business volume with China), and America with 10%.
The studio maintains commercial relations with a total of 16 countries, and its active international clients include Grupo Roca, Tefal, Almirall, Siemens, Makita, Black+Decker, Vieta, and Repsol, among others. Ànima has won more than 50 international awards for its work, including two Red Dot awards in 2017 – considered industry design benchmarks.
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