Leathergoods town almost halves unemployment rate
07/01/2019
In 2008, at the start of the global economic crisis that hit Spain particularly hard, Ubrique had more than 1,600 people on its unemployment register. The corresponding figure at the end of 2018 was 872. The town has a population of around 18,000.
Small-scale, family-owned artisan leathergoods manufacturers are the mainstay of industry in Ubrique. Luxury brands that use Ubrique companies as outsource manufacturing partners have increased their orders, leading to more workers being taken on there.
In November 2018, there were 540 new hires in Ubrique, according to official statistics, 300 of them in manufacturing.
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