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Taking Eustat’s latest data as a reference for the Basque economy as a whole, this figure represented 3.9% of the total employment in the Basque Autonomous Community. Also, in Navarra, the figure of almost 5,000 people employed by the Corporation is 1.7% of the total employment in the Autonomous Community.

Mondragón’s importance in the industrial sector is even greater, as the percentage of employment in its industrial companies within the sector as a whole came to 9.1% in the Basque Autonomous Community and 2.5% in Navarra. In Gipuzkoa, where Mondragón’s industrial presence is the greatest, the percentage was 16.3% of the industrial employment, i.e. 1 out of 6 of the province’s industrial workers worked at Mondragón’s industrial companies in 2007.

In the non-industrial sectors, the key entities in the development of cooperative employment are Caja Laboral in the financial sector and the Eroski Group in the distribution sector. Both are widely established in the Basque Autonomous Community and in Navarra, and in 2007 they employed 13,724 workers in the two Communities. This represents 18,263 jobs, taking the staff of Caja Laboral and Eroski in conjunction with that of the other cooperatives and companies with business activity in these two sectors.

Taking all the Corporation’s activities into account, by the end of 2007 Mondragón was the top employer in Gipuzkoa with 22,324 direct jobs, and it was also the top employer in Bizkaia, with 12,976, and in Navarra, with 4,848. In Álava it ranked third, with 3,035 jobs.

Apart from direct employment, the Corporation’s activity also generated an estimated total of 21,084 ancillary jobs in the Basque Autonomous Community in 2007, deriving from Corporation companies’ demand for goods and services from supplier firms.

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