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Presidential opening for Argentine footwear manufacturing cluster

08/01/2004

New life is being breathed into the premises of the formerTextil Flandria operation at Jauregui, 76km from Buenos Aries, Argentina, which in its heyday provided employment for 3,000 workers.  In 2001, the factory was bought for $1.5 million by Algoselan S.A., a family textile business with strong links to the footwear industry and which is currently managed by second and third generation members of the Diforti family. It is from here that the company operates as ‘Algoselan Flandria.’ 

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