Shoes top La Rioja export list
22/07/2010
The chamber of commerce for the autonomous community said export figures for the January-April 2010 showed that La Rioja exported shoes valued at €71.25 million. This represents an increase of 16% compared to the same period last year. Local media quoted chamber of commerce president, José María Ruiz-Alejos, as saying: “Hats off to Arnedo”, a reference to the town that has the greatest concentration of La Rioja’s footwear factories.
More noteworthy, perhaps, was that the corresponding figure for wine exports, which the Mr Ruiz-Alejos said was still the area’s flagship export product, fell by 3.1% to €66.4 million.
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