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Evidently the bottle corks are the principal source of work for the cork companies. However, its different uses are growing by leaps and bounds.

“Its important to continue with the strategy of attracting sporting events and other themed events for the positioning of Argentina as a tourist attraction and as a headquarters for meetings, fairs, and international conferences,” indicated the Hotel and Gastronomy Business Federation. What happened in Mendoza. The Dakar Expo and the Personal Camping X-Raid Team.”

The exportation of biological or organic wines grew 40% last year. There is a growing demand for these products in Europe, but also in Asia. Mendoza wineries will participate in the next Biofach in Germany, the large fair featuring organics from around the world.

The luck of the mining industry in Mendoza and the concretion of its bulky investments continue to be tied to the slow (but final) advancement of the concrete projects: Río Tinto and San Jorge, which continue firmly towards their objectives in spite of the international crisis but that continue striving to obtain the declarations for environmental impact that in both cases still holds them back.

For the first time, Argentina will occupy an important place in the International Enologist’s Union’s board of directors, with its headquarters in Paris. María Alejandra Lozano was elected first vice president of the organization by delegates of the different wine producing powers. Her position will begin in January of 2009 and will finalize in December of 2011.

Mendozagolf offers a service for incoming tourism whose name is Golfday in Mendoza. The service consists in bringing, searching for, and receiving visitors to our province who wish to play golf. Currently, they work with the courses at Mendoza’s Club de Campo, La Vacherie, Andean Golf Club, and Viñas del Golf.

Santiago Achával is one of the operative managers of Achával Ferrer, a winery that has figured out how to integrate the Italian wisdom in wines with Argentine culture, and thus has received great international recognition.

The goat slaughtering registered during the period from January-September in the entire country, according to data from the National Office of Commercial Agriculture Control (ONCAA) was for 108,053 heads, a statistic that shows a 20.9% decrease with respect to the same period in 2007.

Without ceasing to argue over the position that the European competition already occupies, there will be effort to emphasize the quality of Mendoza’s product. Interest in South American countries has been shown.

In a competition as tough as the famous rally raid, this Mendoza company ended up with the enormous responsibility of being in charge of the logistics and the transport in the race that will kick off on January 3 in Buenos Aires and that will reach Mendoza five days later. The local firm was up for the challenge of fulfilling the rigorous demands of the Dakar organization and it won the battle against international competitors such as Gefco and other national ones such as Andreani, Flechabus and OCA.