The meat industry comprises more than three thousand companies and generates a turnover of € 24 billion and 100 thousand direct jobs
Madrid, 11 September 2018.- The meat industry is the fourth-largest industrial sector in Spain, behind only the automotive industry, the oil and fuel industry and the electricity production and distribution industry. The industrial fabric of the sector – which includes abattoirs, cutting plants and processing plants – comprises around 3,000 companies, distributed throughout Spain, particularly in rural areas. Although a significant part of the sector comprises small and medium-sized companies, this has not prevented the gradual development and consolidation of large business groups, some of them leaders at the European level. The joint production of all these companies makes the meat industry by far the largest in the entire Spanish food and beverage industry, representing a turnover of € 24 billion and 22.3% of the entire Spanish food sector in 2017, according to the National Association of Meat Industries of Spain, ANICE. This powerful sector will naturally be represented at the only trade show in the Iberian peninsula dedicated solely to this industry: MEAT ATTRACTION, the Trade Show for the Meat Industry. Co-organised by IFEMA and ANICE, the second edition of the trade show will take place from 18 to 20 September 2018 at Feria de Madrid.
