Minister repeats footwear target for Argentina
25/06/2013
Ms Giorgi visited on the final day of the show, June 25. She urged Argentina’s footwear manufacturers to use their creativity, their technical know-how and their production capacity to grow the industry’s exports, broadening the markets to which they ship Argentinean shoes.
She went on to say: “Footwear is a strategic sector for the development of Argentinean industry. We have had a marvellous decade, increasing our annual shoe production by 140% and creating 35,000 jobs.”
The minister pointed out that production levels had reached 120 million pairs in 2012 and repeated the target of reaching 200 million pairs by 2020.
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