Alameda launches the seventh campaign to support local commerce

The Alameda City Council has officially publicized the regulatory bases for the VII support campaign for the hospitality sector and local commerce “Shop in Alameda, it rewards you!”, according to the announcement inserted in the 2nd section (City Council) of the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga on October 26, 2026, with reference Edict 3834/2026. The call thus reaches its seventh edition and arrives in the provincial gazette to provide publicity and legal certainty to the conditions of participation. The text is expressly addressed to small businesses within the municipality.

A consolidated call in its seventh edition

The announcement appears among the sixteen city council edicts that the provincial gazette publishes in its October 26 issue, alongside matters from Alcaucín, Alhaurín de la Torre, Álora, Benamargosa, Canillas de Aceituno, Cuevas Bajas, Gaucín, Málaga, Marbella, Ronda, Torremolinos, and Villanueva del Rosario. The reference to a seventh campaign indicates that the initiative is not a one-off event, but rather a municipal line of action with previous editions already held under the same commercial name.

The objective declared in the gazette’s summary is twofold: on one hand, support for the hospitality sector; on the other, backing for local commerce. The call is framed as a mechanism for subsidies and direct incentives for small businesses within the municipal district, articulated through regulatory bases that establish the conditions for access.

What the gazette publishes and where the details are located

The summary of the Official Gazette of the Province of Málaga identifies the announcement and its object—the regulatory bases of the campaign—while the full development of the conditions is contained in the text of the edict published by the municipal corporation. That document is what specifies the details directly affecting interested parties:

• Requirements for participating establishments.
• Prize and incentive modalities provided for in the campaign.
• Obligations of the affiliated businesses and the council itself.
• Application and resolution procedure.

Interested shops and hospitality establishments must therefore adhere to the provisions of the bases approved by the Alameda City Council and published under Edict 3834/2026, which constitutes the official reference for the process.

Alameda, a municipality with continuous administrative activity

The publication of these guidelines is not an isolated event in the council’s activity. In the same issue of October 26, Alameda also appears in the bulletin with the guidelines for the call to create a job bank for Water Network and Cemetery Maintenance Officers (Edict 3836/2026). To this are added recent announcements from the same city council, such as the approval of the 2026 public employment offer (Edict 3651/2026, of October 13) and the tax census for the municipal cemetery fee for the 2026 fiscal year (Edict 3637/2026, of October 8).

Taken together, this depicts a local administration that uses the provincial bulletin as the ordinary channel for publishing its calls, both for personnel and for economic development.

Impact on small businesses

The campaign “Shop in Alameda, it rewards you!” makes consumption within the municipality itself the axis of an incentive policy: local establishments, and not large retail stores, are the declared recipients of the support. For the readers of Alameda, the practical consequence is that the conditions are already public and enforceable, so that any business in the sector can verify its eligibility under the guidelines and, if applicable, prepare the application according to the procedure established by the edict. The seventh edition further confirms the continuity of a program that the council considers part of its action to promote the commercial and hospitality fabric of the municipality.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of Málaga, October 26, 2026, 2nd section (City Council), official reference: Edict 3834/2026.