Timeline
DOGA commenced its business activities in Barcelona in 1958. It began by manufacturing windshield washer/wiper kits, later expanding into direct-current motors (for motor vehicles and industry) and the stamping of welded kits.
DOGA BEGINS
DOGA begins business in a house at Alella street no. 8, Barcelona. The company was initially named FAINA and its products went under the C&G brand name.
1958
DOGA SELLS C&G
Comercial DOGA sells C&G products from this unit/shop at Travessera de Gràcia street no. 173 in Barcelona, which also sells accessories, spare parts and toys. Closed in July 1979.
1961
ALELLA
A nine-floor building is constructed at Alella street no. 8. To avoid interrupting business, building takes place in two stages: firstly the part to the rear, retaining the house and, later, the part including the façade. The building has a total floor plan of 770m2.
1962
ABRERA
Stage One 2,300 sqm of the current premises in Abrera. Today’s industrial estate did not yet exist, and our facilities were surrounded by vines and peach trees. The N II still ran along its former course.
1969
STAGE TWO IN ABRERA
Stage Two in Abrera. Extensions to the existing buildings built eight years previously and the construction of two new industrial buildings, providing a total available surface area of 7,100 sqm.
1977
STAGE THREE IN ABRERA
With the building of an additional 5,050sqm for the stamping and welding plant.
1990
DOGA NAVARRA
Construction of the plant in Navarra.
1998
DOGA Do Brasil
Creation of DOGA’s first production and commercial subsidiary in the Americas. DOGA now boasts buildings covering a surface area totalling 17,000sqm.
2001
DOGA USA
Broadening and reinforcing DOGA’s presence in the Americas with the creation of a new subsidiary for the distribution of the company’s product range.
2003
DOGA ITALY
Incorporation of a new branch, centralising all windshield washer production. Broadening of our product range, adding electric fans, expansion tanks and brake fluid tanks.
2004
DOGA NANTONG
Keeping on with its expanding policy, a new subsidiary in China is open, focusing on the production of wiper blades and wiper systems for bus.
2007
TECHNICAL CENTER
DOGA opens Technical Center, the workplace for the entire section of Engineering and R & D.
2008
DOGA PARTS
DOGA PARTS was born in 2012, Aftermarket business division of DOGA.
2012
DOGA INDIA & MEXICO
DOGA expands new subsidiaries in India and Mexico.
2016
FAINA
Create a new subsidiary in Tanger, Morocco.
