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Agragex Presented in FIMA his annual memory and organised his successful Reverse Missions

Editorial Interempresas20/02/2014

Agragex had a notable presence in the past edition of FIMA, where in addition to accompanying with an own space in the fair to the numerous companies associated that participated in the same, formed fundamental part of the program of activities of the contest organising a new edition of his Reverse Missions. According to the data presented, the figures of Spanish export of the sector of equipment agropecuario during 2013 grew around 10% with regard to the previous year.

The Reverse Missions, example of help to the export

Example patent of the eases that Agragex offers to his associated is the organisation of his known Reverse Missions, that in FIMA 2014 arrived to his twelfth edition. The companies understand that “it treats of an excellent opportunity to visit virtually a few of countries without going out of Spain and know his demands and needs, fundamental to adapt the products that manufactures to the singularities of these markets. All this sees reinforced by the presence in FIMA, since in the stand of the fair finish to concretise technical and commercial appearances, and especially, establishes a relation of confidence with the foreign participants that it is necessary for a good commercial relation”, according to Agragex.

The annual dinner with the partners and the participants in his Reverse Missions was ones of the moments álgidos.

The Missions Investments, that had 61 foreign companies pertinent of 27 countries and 50 Spanish manufacturers of the sector agropecuario, closed the first day of fair with a dinner in the famous restaurant zaragozano The Cachirulo. There Jaime Hernani, general director of Agragex, went back to head to the presents to appreciate the effort realizar by all the actors of the Spanish export and to ask once again an effort to our administrations so that they follow betting by the internationalisation and do not continue recortando of gradual form the bottoms for external promotion, understanding the export like one of the big motors that have helped us to go out of the crisis.

Figures of export that invite to the optimism

During the celebration of FIMA, and after the day of international meetings between exporting companies and foreign distributors, Agragex presented a brief advance on the figures of the export in the sector, that considers “very positive, since they keep upward the expectations”. Like this, the exports of equipment agropecuario from Spain reached in 2013 the 2.000 million euros, what supposes a growth of 10% with regard to the 1.800 registered in 2012. The tendency is positive, after two previous exercises in that they only grew 8%.

One of the most striking data is the important rise of the sales in the French market, more than 70% with regard to 2012, that Agragex links with the promotional effort that has come realizar with the organisation of the participation of his associated in diverse local fairs. In France, the sales reached to final of 2013 the near of 400 million euros in machinery and equipment agropecuario from Spain, what supposes near of 20% of the total of the exports of the sector.

Ránking Of exports of the sector. Source: Estacom.

In this sense, fits to remark that Europe is the first receptor of the Spanish exports of the sector, with more than 50% of the volume of business, rondando the billion of euros in sales for 2013. Other zones that experience growth in the Spanish exports are the Maghreb, where go up 3%, with regard to the sales in 2012.

In the American continent, however, only have kept , which has of by himself a big merit, given the fortress of the euro in front of the dollar, what hampers our exports there, that reached the 282 million euros. In Asia, this same fortress of the euro subyace in the fall of 18% in the Spanish sales. In these countries, a strong euro heads to the customers to local shopping, in place to matter European machinery.