Arroyabe has been awarded with the Best Agrifood SME Prize

Arroyabe attended on April 22nd the XIII National Conference of SMEs, at which the retail group Carrefour awarded the best agrifood SME and the most innovative company.

The distribution company has recognized Arroyabe as the best agrifood SME of the Basque Country 2013, based on the opinion of its customers. After the awards last November in Bilbao (read article), this time Carrefour has recognized Arroyabe’s merits at the ceremony held in Madrid.

At the same event, the president of Carrefour, Rafael Arias Salgado, reaffirmed its commitment to SMEs. As proof of this, he said that the company made ??purchases worth 7,297 million euros in 2013 to more than 9,300 Spanish companies, 83% of them SMEs .

The ceremony was also attended by the Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Miguel Arias Cañete, who stressed that these awards are “very significant, as they are granted by final consumers.”