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The president of the AEAGG alerts that from the 2008 have lost 40.000 places of work in all Spain

Jacobo Bermejo: “The austerity and the fault of consumption are killing to the sector of the graphic arts”

Editorial Interempresas30/05/2012

30 May 2012

The Employers' association of Graphic Arts of Galicia (AEAGG) celebrated the past 12 May in Vigo the festivity of his pattern, San Juan In front of Portam Latinam. Every year, the directive of the entity chooses a Galician municipality for festejar this day. In this occasion the place chosen was Vigo, when being the most punished by the crisis that is suffering a sector that “confronts to a reconversion to peel, without anaesthesia”, affirmed Jacobo Bermejo, president of the AEAGG. “To the current economic situation have to add the change of model of business that suffers the sector, with the imparable advance of the new electronic edition and the fall of the demand”.

Bermejo Alerted that the graphic sector Spanish has lost 40.000 places of work from the 2008, and affirmed that “if the administrations continue only with the politics of austerity carried out up to now, and without undertaking measures of stimulus, no only will not reactivate the economy but it will aggravate the situation of paralización, and this will bring consequences very grave for the employment”.

Presidential table of the homage to the five companies associated to the AEAGG. Of left to right: Carlos Docampo, Carlos López, Jacobo Bermejo, Santos Héctor Rodríguez and Eladio Durán.

In spite of everything, the president of the AEAGG ensured to be “proud to chair a sector that has erigido thanks to the effort emprendedor of employers like which conform our Association, that have contributed during a lot of years to generate wealth and employment and to create a solid productive fabric in Galicia”.

A recognition to the graphic work

The association wanted to recognise a year more the work of five companies associated with a long path in the graphic sector Galician. All the homenajeadas carry more than 25 years settled in the Galician community.

Of left to right: Carlos López Font, second deputy mayor of the city council of Vigo; Arturo Castiñeiras, of Grafisant; Santos Héctor Rodríguez, councillor of Citizen Participation, Employment and Economic Promotion of the City council of Vigo; Manuel López, of Prelo; Jacobo Bermejo, president of the AEAGG; José Garabal, of Graphic Garabal; Ramiro Gómez, of Tórculo; Carlos Docampo, vice-president of the AEAGG and Sunday Prieto, of Graficas Ibernón.

In this occasion, the recognition was for the following five companies:

Prelo, of Lugo (1980)
Graphic Garabal, of Santiago de Compostela (1981)
Tórculo Graphic Arts, of Santiago de Compostela (1982)
Grafisant, of Santiago de Compostela (1984)
Graphic Ibernón, of Vigo (1986)

The act took place in the museum Mark of Vigo and was chaired by Jacobo Bermejo, president of the AEAGG; Carlos López Font, second deputy mayor of the City council of Vigo; Santos Héctor Rodríguez, councillor of Citizen Participation, Employment and Economic Promotion of the City council of Vigo; Carlos Docampo and Eladio Durán, vice-president and treasurer of the directive of the Association, respectively.

Once finalised the act, the assistants enjoyed of the traditional food of confraternity in the restaurant of the Frame, and finished the festive day visiting the Archaeologic Centre Salinae.