Sausage sales for Chile’s Cecinas Llanquihue reached US$30m in 2000, Managing Director Enrique Modinger announced earlier this week. This is an increase of 17.1% on 1999.
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Based in the country’s southern Region X, this family-owned company is one of Chile’s key producers of cured and sausage meat. In 2000 it produced 7,300 tons of sausages, 5.3% more than in 1999.
The company is currently investigating the Argentine market and “the conversations are well advanced, principally with Jumbo [supermarket],” Modinger said.
The company sees potential in the Argentine market, given that per capita consumption of cured and sausage meat is only 7 kilos in that country, compared to 15 kilos per capita in Chile.
Llanquihue now has to analyze Argentine health and safety controls imposed on imports following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in that country.
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By GlobalDataLlanquihue’s products are aimed at the wealthier classes (ABC1). The range includes 150 types of sausages, with frankfurters (vienesa) and spicy pork sausages (longaniza) the most popular.
By Steve Anderson, just-food.com correspondent
