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In Catalonia, from 1855 onwards, various factors generate an industrial expansion. Ampliación.

In the interior of Catalonia, due to the shortage of internally produced coal and the very high cost of importing it from Great Britain, a flourishing textile industry was born, which used the rivers 'waterfalls to operate their machines' hydraulic drives.

In this scene, Blas Aguilar, a young man of twenty born in Vic -a town in this interior Catalonia- decides to move to Barcelona. He starts working in a haberdashery in Calle Princesa and begins to sell thread manufactured in the textile factories in the area he comes from.

His intuitive capabilities, made him realise quickly which were the needs of his customers, so that before long he shifted to selling machine accessories and, assited by the fact that he could talk and write in French, he began to search for them beyond the border.

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In 1876 Mr. Blas Aguilar makes the step which will mark the onset of our business: he moves to Calle Caspe n. 32 and starts officially, under the trade name of Blas Aguilar, the representation of accessories and textile materials, very particularly in the branches of spinning and finishing.

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In 1900 the offices were moved to Calle Vergara n. 3.

In 1901, his son Luciano Aguilar Ollich, who also spoke French, joins the business.
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In 1906, the company moves to Rambla de Catalunya 38

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