- The projects will be carried out through the unit specialising in business consultancy, LKS Next Business Consulting.
- LKS Next, the largest technology consultancy group with Basque capital, with a turnover of close to 74 million euros, is in turn integrated into the Mondragon Corporation.
- The alliance aims to promote projects that improve the Resilience, Efficiency and Sustainability of the sector, through Innovation, Technology and Talent as hallmarks.
LKS Next Business Consulting, -the specialised business consulting unit of the LKS Next group – has signed a business alliance with the Catalan firm Mirihi. The aim of this agreement is to promote projects that improve the resilience, efficiency and sustainability of its customers’ operations in Catalonia. Specifically, the alliance between the two organisations will focus initially on the Health&Beauty activity, where the Catalan firm is highly specialised.
The Partnership
The alliance between LKS Next Business Consulting and Mirihi will take advantage of the knowledge of both organisations in their respective areas of expertise with the aim of creating new business opportunities in Catalonia in sectors of high growth and added value, supporting in a first stage the development of Catalan companies and entities in the sectors of Integral Health (Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Health and Food Supplements) and Beauty and Personal Care (Wellness and Cosmetics).
The idea is to focus on projects linked to projects that improve the Resilience, Efficiency and Sustainability of its clients’ Operations in Catalonia, especially those linked to critical global challenges and which require disruptive technology-based solutions. In this case, the heads of the alliance have already identified projects in areas such as Foresight Strategy, Risk Management, Procurement and Supply Chain, Financial Management, Talent Attraction and Management and Industrial Consulting.
LKS Next is a Basque business group whose turnover (73.5 million euros of business in 2024) makes it the eighth largest consulting group in Spain and the first with Basque capital. In turn, this organisation is part of the Mondragon Group, one of the 10 most important industrial groups in Spain and a business model of reference worldwide; it is present in 150 countries, with more than 70,000 professionals and a turnover of 11,000 million euros.
For its part, the Catalan company Mirihi is a BCorp boutique company providing consultancy and distribution services for healthcare products and technologies with extensive knowledge of the health and beauty sectors with a presence in Catalonia and a great understanding of the challenges facing the sector. This knowledge of both the territory and the sector has been put to good use in setting up the alliance.
LKS Next has a differential positioning in the state Industrial sector and has a long track record in the Health and Social Health sector with important references and success stories such as various Health and Oncology Plans of Autonomous Communities. Evaluation of responses to Covid, Strategic Plans for Health Organisations, projects in Genetics or Health R&D&I and other projects to improve management in pharmaceutical companies. The differential value of LKS Next is its extensive experience, its multidisciplinary team, the technological innovation of its solutions and its integrated approach.
Statements
“The alliance we have now signed,”- explains Gonzalo Fornos, Director of the Business Consulting division of LKS Next – “will allow us to expand and consolidate our operations in an orderly manner and with a sectoral focus”. According to this manager, ‘in the coming months we will develop an intense activity of presentation of innovative solutions and contacts with partners, all of this hand in hand with Mirihi, as our commercial ally’.
For his part, Cristian Lienas, CEO of the Barcelona-based firm, stressed that the alliance with LKS Next ‘has been made after a process in which we have analysed the challenges of our customers with the capabilities of various potential partners’. Cristian Lienas continues, ‘We have considered that LKS Next brings the knowledge, skills and references to help many of our client companies to face them’.
