More than four years ago, in Xataka we published an article entitled “When cell phones were manufactured in Campanillas, Malaga”, telling the story of Vitelcom, a company that manufactured five million mobile phones a year before dying traumatically and leaving many people hanging by the way. At that time, October 2017, in the BQ office, a group of employees from the communication and marketing department read the article in a circle around a computer. “We are going to end up like this,” said one of the employees. The rest chuckled, nodding their heads.
A year later, the company was sold to Vingroup, the largest business conglomerate in Vietnam, with a promise to continue business under the VSmart brand. Less than two years later, everything had evaporated, the Las Rozas office had turned into a crater and no trace of BQ remained. In this report we try to tell the whole story, from the days of euphoria with fucking spaniards
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