![]() Frog’s Leap is also a Continental wine hose customer. “Once the vintner tells us that the vineyards are ready for harvesting, we work 24 hours a day, seven days a week for sometimes more than two months straight,” said Cellar Master, Pablo Polanco of Rutherford, California’s Frog’s Leap Winery who has been in the business for 28 years. Regardless, “When the grapes are ready to be harvested,” said Heim, “there is non-stop action until every grape is picked and processed.”Īnd non-stop is an understated phrase to describe an annual California activity that can involve between 325,000 to 400,000 workers across the state generate $57.6 billion (€49.6 billion) in annual economic activity pay $7.6 billion (€6.5 billion) in taxes and $17.2 billion (€14.8 billion) in annual wages, and generate another $7.2 billion (€6.2 billion) in revenues from an annual average influx of 23.6 million tourist visits. ![]() In addition, the state of California has vineyards as far south as San Diego. ![]() The “belt” stretches approximately from Sacramento, the state capital, to the San Joaquin Valley some 300 miles (480 Km), an area about three-fourths the size of France. “Harvest time in late summer and early fall is an exciting time to be involved in the wine industry,” said Fred Heim, Continental technical manager who sells winery and brewery hose to distributors and their viticultural customers throughout an area in the mid-section of California that could be referred to as America’s Wine Belt. The next wines are sauvignon blanc and other aromatic white wines, chardonnay, pinot noir, reds (such as merlot, cabernet franc, syrah and sangiovese), cabernet sauvignon and lastly the late harvest wines from grapes left on the vine longer than usual to intentionally let them get riper. To ensure the bright acidity that winemakers seek, grapes for sparkling wines are normally the first to be picked, proclaiming the beginning of a thoroughly intensive but eagerly anticipated time of the year. Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Germany (17.4%), Europe (31.3%), North America (25.3%), Asia (21.7%) and other (4.3%).In this region, a fruitful and productive area, harvest time can last from July to November, but typically, the weeks and months in between them are the ones when most of the activity occurs. technical elastomers (17.4%): products made of rubber (belts, tubing, and hoses), plastic materials for the automotive, railroad, mining, and similar industries. tires (34.7%): automobile, motorcycle, light, industrial and farm trucks tires, etc. 2 worldwide), chassis components, control systems, etc. 1 worldwide), electronic braking circuits (No. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - automotive systems (47.9%): basic brakes (No. Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associatedĪ) Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument, identification codeĬontinental AG specializes in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of tires and automotive equipment. Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with themġ.
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