Wine, export to full regime

Rome - A result never caught up before. The export of the Italian wine in 2007 it has caught up the figure of 3.412 million euro, par to 16.8% of all the agricultural and food- exported Italian. The Italian cooperation in the foreign markets is how much emerged to the assembly of the Field Wine of carried out Fedagri-Confcooperative not less than 24 hours ago to Mercatale Val di Pesa (Florence) from the title it “: analysis, evolutions and strategies”. The analysis, condatto from Stefano Raimomdi, in charge of the Line Wines of Institute foreign trade (Ice) has evidenced moreover that in terms of volume, the exported amount is of 18,2 million hectoliters, par to beyond 40% of wine the total production of 2007. And be emphasized moreover the strong concentration of the export of the Italian wine. In particular eleven are the markets leader (to the first places Usa, Canada and Japan), in which 90% approximately of the exports of our Country are concentrated. At the same time it is emerged that the 428 wine cooperatives of Fedagri produce every year in average beyond 20 million hectoliters of wine, par to 42% of the wine altogether produced in Italy (48/49 million hectoliters) and to 65% of the wine of origin cooperative. The total turnover is equal to 2,6 billions of euro, of which the nearly meta' it derives from the commerce with the foreign country. They are the 152,000 winegrowers associates and 5,900 are the total of the occupied ones. To this it goes second added that the last data of the relationship Mediobanca 2008, to forehead of a medium increase of the turnovers of the Italian wine companies of +4.7% (+3.8% deriving from the sales in Italy and +5.9% from the export), the best performances of the 2007 are committees own from the companies cooperatives that introduce medium increments of +5.8%. On the scenes for the future of wine export the Raimondi it has emphasized instead that “he is indispensable to succeed to having a picture of together and at the same time detailed of the markets and the tendencies in existence, in order to pick the opportunities offered from the market, abolishing the distinction between “new” and “old” markets”. To the state China puts into effect them of the things today has been made present - it represents, together to former British Cologne of Hong Kong, the greater Asian market, with an equal consumption to 62.7% of entire Asia. It follows, with 28%, Japan. At the same time the trend of increase, always positive in last the seven years, of the imports in the continent American, it is enduring rest (- 9.9% in the first seven months of the year), because of the crisis economy in action

23 / 10 / 2008