Cafès Gener
The town of Cardona, located in Bages, is characterised by its long and important role in history. After its medieval splendour, it lived through the difficulties of the Modern Era with its prominent role during the War of the Spanish Succession. The Baroque was also present with chapels and some altarpieces or pulpit falls such as that of Sant Ramon Nonat.
It is important to highlight the main altar of Sant Miquel’s church, which disappeared during the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, made by Andreu Sala de Linya, born near the village. It is in this town where, years later, Cafès Gener was founded.
Cafès Gener is a company created towards 1950, when the owner of Café Colón in Cardona showed the secrets of toasting coffee to Josep Gener, “el Bonany”, born in the farmlands close to the town.
Josep Gener, seeing the opportunities of coffee in the market, began to explore this world and soon after he made a name for himself in the region. This is how a family company was created in which, nowadays, works the third generation.
The company was located close to the city walls of Cardona and, in the year 2000, an important qualitative and quantitative jump took place by expanding the facilities and moving to a new plant in the industrial area, renewing and modernising, at the same time, the entire process of storing, toasting and packaging the coffee.
