Economic impact of Mercadona and its supply chain in 2024

The purpose of this project is to estimate the economic impact of Mercadona in terms of output, value added and employment for 2024. In addition, as in previous years, the report includes an analysis of the supermarket chain’s fiscal impact, distinguishing between direct, indirect and induced effects. This will be the tenth impact report on Mercadona prepared by the Ivie, following the first edition published in 2015.

The report estimates the impacts at an aggregate level as well as by sectors. In this way, in addition to Mercadona’s total contribution to the Spanish economy’s GDP and employment, results will also be provided by sector of activity. Thus it will be possible to identify and quantify the sectors or productive branches in which Mercadona (and its supply chain) has the greatest economic impact.

To this end, the analysis applies an input–output methodology based on the input–output table for the Spanish economy produced by the National Statistics Institute (INE). Mercadona’s economic impacts arise both from its core operations (sales of its products) and from its investment activity. Accordingly, the report distinguishes between the impact generated by its operating activity and that associated with its investments.