The Festina Group was founded 30 years ago by entrepreneur Miguel Rodríguez. The group's central head office is in Barcelona and there are subsidiaries in 9 countries. The group includes the following brands: Festina, Lotus, Jaguar, Candino et Calypso. More than 3000 people work in the group worldwide, selling more than 4,5 million watches a year in 65 countries. The group has a high-quality Swiss watch production centre in Herbetswil (Switzerland), another production centre that specialises in gold watches in Cordoba (Spain), and a quality and precision analysis laboratory for manufactured parts.