Lleida boasts enterprises focused mainly on the food and agriculture, services and building sectors. It is also distinguished by other, smaller sectors like packaging, ICT and logistics. The companies are increasingly internationalised, and its food and agriculture industry accounts for 63% of total exports.
The ACCIÓ’s local Office in Lleida has three people on staff. Manager Clara Porta is a business graduate from the University of Barcelona, who specialised in international trade at New York University (USA). She also studied at the Aarhus Business School (Denmark). Her professional career was developed at the ICEX Trade Office in New York, in management positions in a private firm in the international trade arena and in the agriculture and food, energy and consumer goods sectors, as well as market research consulting.