- 7 000 jobs in packaging.
-In Charente, the cognac
activity employs 17 000 persons out of the 22 000 workers
of the region :
10 500 in viticulture
3 000 in trade and distillation
3 400 in indirect jobs
Cognac is sold abroad in the whole world (exportation of 93,3%)
and it contributes for 1,26 billion euros to the balance of trade
excess, and for 70% of the trade excess of the Poitou-Charentes
region.
But the unemployment
rate is quite high (19%)
