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Start-up programme will encourage new tanneries in Argentina

24/05/2012
The minister for industry in Argentina, Débora Giorgi, has said a new government programme called GenIA, which aims to help boost industry, will lead to an increase of 20% in the number of manufacturing companies being set up in the country.

For the past eight years, the annual average for new start-ups in Argentina has been 17,000. If Ms Giorgi is correct, GenIA will help take this figure above 20,000.

She announced in mid-May that the first six GenIA offices were up and running in the cities of Tucumán, Salta, Paraná, Córdoba, Mar del Plata and Mendoza. The programme foresees similar offices opening all over the country to advise start-ups on the help available to them in terms of training and technology, with a promise that there will be at lease one per province by the end of 2013.

She described GenIA as a series of business generation hubs through which the government was taking a programme of industrialisation all over the country.

“The president, Cristina Fernández, wants industry in rural parts of Argentina,” the minister said, “and the GenIA offices are already making a contribution to this, for example by encouraging the tanning of different hides and skins from our traditional bovine hides in the north of the country. We want to go more deeply into processes that add value to our raw material.”


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