Editing Valladolid (section)

== Economy ==

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Valladolid is a major economic center in Spain. The [[Automotive industry in Spain|automotive industry]] is one of the major motors of the city's economy since the founding of [[FASA-Renault]] in 1953 for the assembling of [[Renault]] branded vehicles, which would later become [[Renault España]]. Four years later, in 1957, [[Sava (Spain)|Sava]] was founded and started producing commercial vehicles. Sava would later be absorbed by [[Pegaso]] and since 1990 by the Italian truck manufacturer [[Iveco]]. Together with the French tire manufacturer [[Michelin]], Renault and Iveco form the most important industrial companies of the city.

Besides the automotive and automotive auxiliary industries, other important industrial sectors are [[food processing]] (with local companies like Acor and Queserías Entrepinares and facilities of multinationals like [[Cadbury]], [[Lactalis]] or Lesaffre), [[metallurgy]] (Lingotes Especiales, Saeta die Casting...), chemical and printing. In total 22 013 people were employed in 2007 in industrial workplaces, representing 14.0% of total workers.<ref name="CE">Data from [http://www.cajaespana.es/pubweb/decyle.nsf/9C21FF15F589D493C12578720023B41F/$File/47186.PDF?OpenElement Informe de Datos Económicos y Sociales de los Municipios de España] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407081938/http://www.cajaespana.es/pubweb/decyle.nsf/9C21FF15F589D493C12578720023B41F/$File/47186.PDF?OpenElement |date=7 April 2014 }}, written by Caja España</ref>

The main economic sector of Valladolid in terms of employment is however the service sector, which employs 111,988 people, representing 74.2% of Valladolid workers affiliated to Social Security.

The construction sector employed 15,493 people in 2007, representing 10.3% of total workers.

Finally, agriculture is a tiny sector in the city which only employs 2,355 people (1.5% of the total). The predominant crops are wheat, [[barley]] and [[sugar beet]].

Top 10 companies by turnover in 2013 in € million were: [[Renault]] (4 596), [[Michelin]] (2 670), [[Iveco]] (1 600), the Valladolid-based supermarket chain [[Grupo El Árbol]] (849), cheese processing [[Queserías Entrepinares]] (204), sugar processing [[Acor]] (201), service group [[Grupo Norte]] (174), automobile auxiliary company [[Faurecia]]-Asientos de Castilla y León (143), Sada (129) and Hipereco (108).<ref>''Castilla y León Económica'', no. 211, February 2013</ref>