Santo Domingo. – The Minister of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs, Víctor -Ito- Bisonó, highlighted the dynamism with which jobs continue to recover in Dominican manufacturing industries, which average in the period January – April of this year, more than 137,633, according to the data registered by the Social Security Treasury.
The industrial subsectors that have recovered the most jobs are the manufacture of pharmaceutical products 110%, manufacture of soaps and detergents 115%, manufacture of plastic 108%, manufacture of oils and fats of vegetable and animal origin 106%, manufacture of chemical substances 103%, manufacture of grain products 104%, manufacture of dairy products 101% and the basic industries of iron and steel 101%; these subsectors have registered more employees in 2022 than in 2020.
“The Dominican Republic exhibits an enviable economic behavior with respect to the other countries in the region, as well as an expansion of our growth, especially in the last 18 months, which places us as a reference model for the main international organizations,” he said. Rookie.
The monitoring report on the local manufacturing situation carried out by the MICM indicates that the accumulated interannual growth of national industrial exports is 30.9%, thanks to the fact that exports accumulated US$ 638 million. Accumulated sales January-March 2022 register RD$249,940 million, which indicates an accumulated year-on-year growth: 23.3%.
Minister carries out the Industrial Route. Minister Bisonó visits the facilities of the industries weekly to see the processes first-hand, and offer the government’s support to speed up investments that generate more jobs.
This week he toured the facilities of Bepensa, a company dedicated to the production, bottling and marketing of more than 11 Coca-Cola Company brands. It has 18 distribution centers, which directly serve more than 40,000 grocery stores through 1,400 delivery routes throughout the country. He stressed that the beverage industry in the Dominican Republic represents a contribution of around 15,600 jobs and almost 270 companies. He recalled that in 2021, the production of beverages was the manufacturing subsector that made the most contributions to internal collections, representing 33.6%, equivalent to RD$51,466.7 million.
The head of the MICM recalled that the total sales of beverage production presented an average year-on-year growth of 9.0%, going from RD$58,896.9 million in 2010 to RD$148,228.9 million in 2021, the year in which sales increased 27.1% compared to the previous year. 2020, mainly influenced by the increase in sales of “Ethyl alcohol distillation” (37.9%), “Manufacture of beer, malt and malt beverages” (27.0%) and “Manufacture of carbonated beverages except soda ( 24.8%).
