The Association of industries of meat debate at its General meeting the challenges of the meat industry

The Association of industries of the meat Spain (AICE) , the past day 23, held its annual General meeting, which took stock of the sector during the year 2010. During the event, he also used to establish the strategies of the industry in the face of this year, which has begun with increase in costs, decrease in consumption and funding problems. In the Board, which took place in the headquarters of the CEOE in Madrid with the assistance of a large number of associated companies, involved Joan Rosell, President of the Spanish Confederation of business organizations (CEOE), who stressed the economic importance of the meat industry. A. then presented the work carried out with a view to a necessary reform of collective bargaining, stressing that the labour legislation in Spain is not working properly, as the more than four million unemployed. The key to this reform is to provide flexibility to companies so that they can compete in an ever changing, variable and global market. For its part, Generoso García, President of AICE, went on to analyse the situation and prospects of the sector, initiating the debate and interventions of members of the General meeting. "Many have been meetings, efforts, initiatives and other meetings since AICE developed during 2010, in our effort to fulfill our mission of support to our partners in a very complicated situation," said the President. "In spite of this, food industries, and within them the meat, we have behaved in a manner much more stable than the majority of industrial sectors, at the time that we have found an outlet to the stagnation of our domestic market in export and innovation.""However, there are also many challenges facing us, and therefore the Union of the sector is more important than ever to deal with them". In this sense, Generoso Garcia noted the difficult situation which has gone through the sector one year more, with a significant increase of costs in many of the items and fundamental inputs to the profitability of companies, such as energy and raw material costs, while that for pigmeat prices were at levels which were made that the European Union would have to resort to private storage, already at the beginning of 2011, to correct this fall. The crisis of the dioxin in Germany and its impact on the European market also represented a major source of instability in the meat sector.

In the image, Generoso García, President of AICE, and Joan Rosell, President of the Spanish Confederation of business organizations (CEOE), at the Board meeting.