What Tac Osona does

Fundació Tac Osona is a nonprofit social-economy enterprise headquartered in Manlleu (Barcelona), Spain, operating as a Centre Especial de Treball (CET) under the parent Fundació Sant Tomàs. Founded in 1974 and formally incorporated as a foundation in 2009, the entity employs 365 people with disabilities and 46 at risk of social exclusion across a diversified service portfolio spanning cleaning and disinfection, industrial cleaning, urban furniture maintenance, gardening and forestry, environmental services, municipal brigade support, industrial handling and assembly, labor enclaves, parking management, adapted transport, industrial laundry (via the acquired Calandra brand), and central-kitchen catering (La Cuina de Sant Tomàs). It also produces a consumer-facing agrifood line — Patates de Sant Tomàs — sold through the Bon Preu i Esclat supermarket chain across Catalonia and Andorra.

The company's technology stack is operational rather than digital-product-centric: TacProd is a proprietary web-based workforce management application used internally and licensed to other special employment centers, combining NFC/QR-based task tracking with brigade scheduling. Industrial laundry operations use RFID for production tracking, and the industrial-handling division deployed collaborative robots (cobots) in 2023 to make assembly and palletizing tasks accessible to workers with mobility limitations. The agrifood facility in Manlleu runs at a 2,700 kg/week capacity, and a self-service food machine built by local startup Awayter distributes La Cuina meals at the Universitat de Vic campus. Quality and compliance are anchored by ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and a Covid-19 Protocol certification.

Commercially, Tac Osona runs a hybrid professional-services + consumer-goods revenue model. The core GTM motion is direct contracting with private companies and public administrations, including reserved public tenders that CETs are statutorily eligible to win under Spain's disability employment framework. Public subsidies from Generalitat de Catalunya (Línia 1 wage subsidies, Línia 2 EMS teams), European Social Fund co-financing, FEADER agrifood funding, and grants from Fundación ONCE, CEPES, and Fundació La Caixa materially supplement service revenue. The agrifood and catering sub-brands add a direct-to-consumer channel via retail, online store, and on-campus self-service machines, creating a two-engine structure anchored by services to 50+ institutional clients across Osona and broader Catalonia.

Name

Tac Osona

Legal name

Fundació Tac Osona

Website

https://tacosona.cat

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tac Osona is a nonprofit Catalan social-economy enterprise (Centre Especial de Treball) that delivers cleaning, maintenance, industrial, catering, laundry, and transport services to businesses and public administrations while employing people with intellectual disabilities and those at risk of social exclusion.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Facility Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Community Food Services (62421), Professional Employer Organizations (561330)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744), Sanitary Services (4950), Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Workplace & Office Support Services (Reception/Mailroom/Porterage/Helpdesk) (IMAIAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Food Services & Catering (On-site/Corporate Dining/Vending) (IMAIAAAE), Uniform & Linen Cleaning, Sanitization & Processing (Service-Included) (HSAJAMAE), Municipal Contract Collection & Franchise Operations (BPALAAAH)

Keywords

• Facility management services
• Industrial cleaning services
• Special employment services
• Industrial laundry services
• Catering and food services

Headquarters

HQ city

Manlleu

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Cleaning and Maintenance Services: Provides professional cleaning, disinfection, and maintenance services to businesses, institutions, and public administrations. Includes cleaning of buildings, industrial cleaning, street cleaning, and specialized disinfection services.
2. Gardening and Forestry Services: Maintenance of green and forest areas for companies, institutions, and individuals, including landscape design, irrigation systems, and public works.
3. Industrial Handling and Manufacturing Services: Outsourcing of production process segments involving product manipulation, including assembly lines, shrink-wrapping, assemblies, and promotions.
4. Kitchen and Catering Services: Central kitchen service for institutions, schools, nurseries, day centers, external kitchen management, and school cafeteria monitoring.
5. Agrifood Products (Potatoes): Production and sale of fried potatoes (Patates de Sant Tomàs) made with Arbequina virgin olive oil, sold through retail and direct channels.
6. Industrial Laundry Services: Industrial laundry services for hospitals, clinics, socio-health centers, hotels, and companies for work clothing cleaning.
7. Urban Maintenance Services: Management of parking facilities, infrastructure maintenance, surveillance, concierge services, postal distribution, and equipment management for administrations.
8. Adapted Transport Services: Adapted transport service for institutions and municipalities to meet the displacement needs of people with reduced mobility.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Fundació Tac Osona is a social-economy Special Work Center that delivers contracted facility services to companies, institutions, and public administrations, including cleaning and disinfection, industrial cleaning, gardening and forestry, urban furniture and road maintenance, industrial handling and assembly, labor enclaves, adapted transport, parking management, industrial laundry (Calandra), central-kitchen catering (La Cuina de Sant Tomàs), and environmental services. It also produces and sells fried potatoes under the Patates de Sant Tomàs brand, and licenses TacProd, its proprietary workforce-management software. All operations are staffed primarily by people with intellectual disabilities and those at risk of social exclusion.

Product overview

Tac Osona is a social economy enterprise (Centre Especial de Treball) managed by Fundació Sant Tomàs that provides a comprehensive portfolio of services to businesses and public administrations. The service portfolio includes cleaning and maintenance of spaces (residential, commercial, and industrial), urban furniture maintenance, gardening and forestry services, environmental services, industrial handling and labor enclaves, adapted transport, parking management, industrial laundry (Calandra), and catering services (La Cuina de Sant Tomàs). The company also operates a software product (TacProd) for managing work brigades and produces a food product line (Patates de Sant Tomàs fried potatoes). All operations prioritize social inclusion by employing people with intellectual disabilities and those at risk of social exclusion.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• La Cuina de Sant Tomàs: Central kitchen service offering balanced meals based on healthy, quality ingredients for institutions, schools, day care centers, and workplaces. Located in Calldetenes.
• Patates de Sant Tomàs (Potatoes of Sant Tomàs)
• TAC Prod
• Bugaderia Industrial Calandra

Products and services

• Neteja i desinfecció (Cleaning and Disinfection) Professional cleaning and disinfection of offices, educational centers, kindergartens, sports pavilions, and property communities. Schedules are adapted to client operations to avoid disrupting daily activities. Targeted at companies, institutions, and public administrations.
• Neteja industrial (Industrial Cleaning) Specialized industrial cleaning using professional equipment, covering parking lots, glass and facade cleaning, chemical-free solar-panel cleaning, and laboratory cleaning. Targeted at industrial sites, commercial buildings, and solar-energy operators.
• Manteniment de mobiliari urbà, senyalització i pintura viària (Urban Furniture, Signage and Road Marking Maintenance) Maintenance of urban furniture, children's playgrounds (inspections under EN1176/EN1177), signage, road marking (manual and machine), and construction of waste-collection areas with access control. Targeted at municipalities and public administrations.
• Jardineria i serveis forestals (Gardening and Forestry Services) Gardening and forestry services including green-space maintenance, integral garden design, irrigation systems with remote management, tree management, artificial-turf installation, sports-equipment maintenance, forest clearing, firebreak maintenance, and river restoration. Targeted at companies, institutions, municipalities, and individuals.
• Suport a les brigades municipals (Municipal Brigade Support) Support services for municipal maintenance brigades, including sidewalk repairs, drain cleaning, vertical painting, and management of employment plans. Targeted at municipalities.
• Serveis mediambientals (Environmental Services) Environmental management services including selective waste collection, landfill management, and vegetation-waste management. Targeted at businesses and institutions.
• Manipulats i serveis industrials (Industrial Handling and Assembly) Industrial handling and assembly services including chain assembly, shrink-wrapping, product finishing, and promotional items. Provides flexible outsourcing options for production processes. Targeted at manufacturing and consumer-goods companies.
• Enclavaments laborals (Labor Enclaves) Labor-enclave services: subcontracted Tac Osona work teams that operate on the contracting company's own premises, performing manual processes, product finishing, component assembly, and chain assembly. Targeted at companies that need on-site operational support.
• Servei de cuina / La Cuina de Sant Tomàs (Central Kitchen Service) Central kitchen providing balanced, healthy menus based on quality local ingredients for institutions, schools, day centers, nurseries, external-kitchen management, and school-cafeteria monitoring, with an Awayter 24/7 self-service machine deployed at the Universitat de Vic campus. Targeted at schools, universities, day centers, and workplaces.
• Gestió d'aparcaments i equipaments (Parking and Infrastructure Management) Parking and infrastructure management including parking vigilance, concierge services, postal distribution, banner placement, tent assembly, and meter reading. Targeted at public administrations.
• Servei de transport adaptat (Adapted Transport Service) Adapted door-to-door transport for people with reduced mobility, from residences to day centers, care homes, and primary healthcare facilities. Uses specialized staff and adapted vehicles. Targeted at institutions and municipalities serving people with reduced mobility.
• Bugaderia industrial Calandra (Industrial Laundry Calandra) Industrial laundry service for hospitals, clinics, socio-health centers, hotels, and corporate workwear, retained under the Calandra brand following its 2022 integration into Tac Osona. Targeted at healthcare, hospitality, and corporate clients.
• Patates de Sant Tomàs (Sant Tomàs Fried Potatoes) Premium fried potatoes made with Arbequina extra virgin olive oil and Delta de l'Ebre salt, produced by people with intellectual disabilities at L'Obrador in Manlleu. Available in regular, black-pepper and sajolda flavors in 45g and 170g packages. Sold through Bon Preu/Esclat supermarkets, the company's online store, and self-service vending at UVic.
• TacProd (Workforce Management Software) Web-based proprietary software for organizing and managing work brigades, enabling planning and control of task time and compliance, service-level tracking, and mobile task management with NFC and QR-code technology. Used internally and licensed to other special-employment centers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 365 people with disability and 46 with social exclusion risk employed
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and major.

• SEIDORcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 May 2024Technology company where Tac Osona created the first technological enclave in May 2024. Six CET workers participate in computer quality control for the Generalitat de Catalunya.
• Som MobilitatminorOthers · 27 September 2021Cooperative for shared mobility that provided a shared electric vehicle (Renault Zoe) to Tac Osona for labor displacements in cleaning and disinfection tasks. The vehicle was available for 10 months as part of a joint cooperation project.
• Parc de les Olors de Santa Eulàlia de RonçanaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration in creating new potato flavor with organic Sajolida, contributing to product innovation.
• CEPES (Confederación Empresarial Española de la Economia Social)majorOthersSpanish business confederation of social economy providing support for collaborative robot project design, implementation, and worker training. Also supporting self-service machine project.
• Fundación ONCEmajorOthersFoundation providing support for collaborative robot project including design, implementation, and training of workers. Also supporting sustainability training and various social projects.
• Cambra de ComerçminorOthersChamber of Commerce program 'Talent Jove' enabling young people hiring at Tac Osona and Vic Verd special employment centers.
• Autèntic.catminorOthersArt and design studio formed by people served by Sant Tomàs that designed packaging artwork for potato products.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Sodexo Spain: Sodexo provides on-site food services, facility management, and benefits & rewards services globally and in Spain. Most directly comparable to Tac Osona on the La Cuina de Sant Tomàs central-kitchen and corporate-dining segment.
• Grupo Eulen: Grupo Eulen is a major Spanish multinational providing cleaning, security, maintenance, and social services with extensive public-sector relationships. Competes for the same cleaning, maintenance, and adapted-services contracts.
• ISS A/S: ISS is a global facility services company with significant Spanish operations in cleaning, workplace, and food services. Represents the international, scaled benchmark for the kind of services Tac Osona delivers.
• Ferrovial Servicios: Ferrovial's services division offers integrated facility management, urban maintenance, and environmental services across Spain and internationally. Broad incumbent competing for the same municipal tenders Tac Osona targets.
• Compass Group / Eurest: Compass Group (Eurest) is one of the world's largest contract food services and support services providers. Most relevant as a scale benchmark for La Cuina de Sant Tomàs and as a potential competitor for institutional catering contracts.
• Clece (ACS Group): Clece is one of Spain's largest facility services providers, owned by ACS, with deep public-sector contract exposure in cleaning, maintenance, and social services. While not a CET, it competes head-to-head for non-reserved municipal contracts in Tac Osona's geographies.

Direct peers

• Ilunion: Ilunion is the social-enterprise arm of ONCE (Spain's national blindness organization) and the largest direct peer: a CET-equivalent providing facility services, industrial laundry, contact center, and hospitality services while employing people with disabilities. National scale and overlapping service lines make it the closest mission-aligned comparable.
• Fundación ASPROS: Fundació ASPROS is a Catalan special employment center that has adopted Tac Osona's TacProd software. Direct peer in the CET ecosystem with overlapping service lines (brigade-based maintenance, social services) in the same region.
• Grupo SIFU: Grupo SIFU is a Spanish Centro Especial de Empleo providing integrated facility services (cleaning, maintenance, security, gardening, logistics) to public and private clients. Direct competitor in the same CET-based, social-economy service model.

Others

• Fundación ONCE: Fundación ONCE is the parent foundation behind Ilunion and a major funder of disability employment initiatives in Spain. While not a direct service competitor, it is a key institutional player that influences the CET ecosystem Tac Osona operates in.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles15 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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