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With the recent wave of Catalonia-based companies transferring their business addresses to Spain, initiatives for product boycotts have appeared, some of them from the south-western Spanish region Extremadura. As a consequence, the alarm has been raised by some businesspeople in Extremadura who have advised that many Catalan companies are supplied with raw materials from the region. 

This is the case of Manuel Vázquez Calleja, managing director of Conesa, a tomato-processing company. Speaking to the Extremaduran newspaper Hoy he declared that "refusing to buy Catalan products, such as those of food company Tarradellas, could be shooting ourselves in the foot, as their pizzas are covered by our tomatoes", and he added that "probably the tuna they use comes from Galicia and their flour from Andalusia".

Lists of "prohibited" brands to be boycotted have been circulating on the smartphones of Extremadura people, and Tarradellas is not the only one. There is also Nestlé which distributes Solís tomato paste, whose raw material comes from Miajadas (Extremadura) while Aquarel bottled water comes from Herrera del Duque (Extremadura). Other examples are Borges, Gallina Blanca or Matutano; all three are supplied with raw material grown under the Extremadura sun.