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Wallbox Wall Street

Brand Event · Finca Mas Soler · 2020

Corporate event for Wallbox at Finca Mas Soler to mark the NYSE listing. Evening with eighties Wall Street aesthetics as a physical counterpoint to the financial milestone.

  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Wallbox Wall Street event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production

The challenge

Ringing the New York bell from Barcelona without looking like a postcard.

The client presented an uncomfortable tension. The Wall Street bell is struck more than six thousand kilometres away, in an iconic building with its own visual grammar. Replicating it in Barcelona without falling into cardboard décor was the project's first trap.

The second was one of tone. A stock market listing convenes investors, analysts, financial media, industrial partners, and the workforce itself. Each audience expects a different code. If the format tilts too far towards the institutional, the workforce feels like spectators of their own story. If it tilts too far towards the festive, the market reads frivolity at a moment of maximum regulatory exposure.

Added to that tension was the time window. The exact date of NYSE listing is not negotiated: the American regulator sets it. The Barcelona event had to be ready to fit any calendar adjustment without losing coherence with the financial operation. Production and corporate schedule moved simultaneously, and the margin for error was narrow.

Bacus's response

Wall Street in Barcelona: the trading floor as narrative scenography.

Bacus proposed reading the act as a trading day. Not a literal imitation of the NYSE, but a visual translation the audience reads instantly: a trading floor, green indicators, ticker tape running through the room, a referenced dress code, and a real bell positioned at the centre of the scenography as the main narrative piece.

The guest's journey was designed in three movements. Arrival in a business register, with accreditation treated as a listing pass. An institutional block with short interventions, data on screen, and a reading of the corporate moment. And a close with a bell strike choreographed to the second, breaking the formal code and releasing the room into a celebration format.

The team integrated creative direction, technical production, bespoke scenography, audiovisual content, event direction, and an editorial script worked word by word with the client's communications team. Every element was validated against two questions: how it would be reported in social media and press the following day, and how it would be remembered by those who had been in the room.

Production was planned with a flexible window to absorb financial calendar adjustments without repositioning the entire project. Suppliers worked with framework dates until the definitive window was confirmed. It is a decision that costs money in reservations, and one the client understood from the outset as narrative insurance.

The experience

Two hours in which the workforce stops being an audience.

The guest arrived in stock exchange code. Formal accreditation, screens in green, ambient sound of an active trading floor. During the first half hour, the room breathed positive tension: the corporate moment was told with data, with chronology, and with the real presence of the bell at the back, still silent.

The turn came when the live signal from the American market came on. The room detected the lighting change before the words. There was a moment of shared silence, deliberately sought, between the announcement and the strike. That three-second pause was the most commented detail in the client's subsequent feedback.

After the strike, the code was released. The room moved from auditorium to social space in under a minute. The set reconfigured, the music changed palette, and the workforce circulated through a space that was no longer a stage but common territory. The listing stopped being news and became something lived in company.

The result

A bell that rang across two time zones simultaneously.

The client obtained press material coherent with the international financial narrative and, at the same time, an internal chronicle that circulated through the company's own channels for weeks. The double reading — institutional and celebratory — held without contradiction at any point in the act.

The bell remained as the iconic piece of the company's foundational moment as a listed entity. The photograph of the strike was incorporated into subsequent corporate narratives as the visual reference for the milestone. Bacus went on to produce further projects for Wallbox in subsequent years, with commissions built on the trust established at that crossing between Barcelona and New York.

Client
Wallbox
Attendees
800
Venue
Finca Mas Soler

Frequently asked questions · Wallbox Wall Street

What readers ask after this case.

  • A transatlantic stock market listing event requires coordinating three layers simultaneously. The financial layer is set by the American market regulator: the date and exact moment of the bell strike are non-negotiable. The narrative layer requires deciding which audiences are convened at the physical event in Spain and how the institutional and celebratory codes are balanced. The logistics layer requires synchronising a live NYSE feed, scenic installation, flexible date window, and a script validated by the corporate communications team. Bacus works these three layers as a single integrated project, not as three parallel commissions.

  • The habitual trap is to literally replicate the NYSE with false columns and a cardboard American flag. The result reads as parody. The correct reading is to translate the grammar of the trading floor into contemporary visual codes: panels with live data, real ticker tape rather than imitated, furniture in clean lines, a referenced but not identical colour palette, and a central narrative piece — the bell — treated as a sculptural object rather than props. The scenography must read in social media and financial press with equal credibility. That double check is the design filter.

  • The NYSE bell is one of the most recognisable financial symbols in the world. Replicating it on screen loses its power: the event becomes audiovisual and dissolves in the news feed. A physical bell, positioned on axis, lit in isolation, and struck in synchrony with the live listing, turns the moment into a one-time live event. The sound of bronze functions as an emotional anchor for attendees and as an archival resource for subsequent communications. It is the detail that justifies gathering the organisation in a single space rather than following the milestone by stream.

  • The effective listing date on a regulated market can shift until the last moment for regulatory or market reasons. To absorb that uncertainty without repositioning the entire project, Bacus reserves venue, audiovisual suppliers, catering, and production team with broad framework dates. Contracts are closed with time-flexibility clauses that cost somewhat more in reservation but guarantee continuity if the financial calendar shifts. The client accepts that additional cost as narrative insurance: it is worth more to cover the possibility of a shift than to risk losing the communications milestone.

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