Grifols Dublin move hits tax and political hot buttons
The Spanish medical company is moving its corporate treasury from Barcelona to Dublin
One part of the move had been long in the works by Grifols, a big Spanish medical company. The other came as a politically fraught surprise.
When Grifols, a global leader in blood-plasma products, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new $100 million distribution centre outside Dublin last month, the ceremony capped a long-planned project, one that would add 140 jobs to its small work force in Ireland.
It was the other part ...
