Mendoza’s strategy is to develop the foreign market, and it has an advantageous relative price that increases competitiveness. Among other characteristics, it also has strategic planning, fiscal order, economic order, legal security, institutional continuity and quality.

The new macroeconomic situation of Argentina gives privilege to the production of exportable goods, and these are the areas which have made Mendoza’s economy so dynamic during 2003 and 2004. The exchange rate placing the dollar value high definitively improved these sectors' profitability, causing most private investments publicly known in the last 18 months to focus their attention on these sectors.

The Provincial Government, within the structure of its Ministry of Economy,
has created an entity in charge of the affairs related to Attraction of Investments, having as its main goal to speed up operations and to provide contacts and information necessary to conveniently optimize investments. Its staff consists of a group of highly trained and experienced professionals who efficiently give advice to those who consult. Investing in Mendoza is a good piece of advice.

These are some of the sectors you may invest in:

- Grape juice concentrate and must
- Fruit and vegetable packing plants
- Freezing chain. Cold-storage plants with controlled atmosphere
- Potato seeds
- Dehydration and freezing plants
- Tomato powder
- Garlic paste and other vegetable pastes
- Apple and quince pectin
- Fruit pulp concentrate
- Must
- Exploitation of lead, copper , gold, zinc, nickelous sulfides, molybdenum, wolfram,   arsenic, manganese and vanadium
- Concentrated fluorite plants
- Micro-ionized talc
- Enamelled ceramic floors
- Silicon paste
- Mineral water
- Development of tourist villages on fiscal lands
- Exploitation and development of various tourist services and circuits
- Building of five-star hotels and resorts
- Rabbit breeding
- Cow raising
- Goat raising
- Pure honey
- Pisciculture
- Cold-storage plants
- Eucalyptus pulp for the paper industry
- Furniture
- Polypropylene
- Ethylene oxide

Attraction de Investments Office
Government House – Central Building, 6th floor
Capital city of Mendoza – P.C. 5500 - Mendoza - Argentina
Tel/Fax 54 (61) 4492515 - 4492516

E-mail: jacevedo@mendoza.gov.ar

www.economia.mendoza.gov.ar