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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.85 - Manufacture Of Prepared Meals And Dishes
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 November 2023
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2024
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
SmakMAK, a producer of ready-to-eat dinner dishes and snacks, is modernising its production plant in Ponieck, where it will employ 150 people.
SmakMAK has purchased the Poniec production plant from Mróz Group companies in connection with an ongoing investment to enable the doubling of production capacity due to the dynamic growth of the ready meals market; the modernisation process of part of the plant is expected to be completed in Q2 2024, when the production lines will also be launched. Production staff will be employed. The plant will be fully operational in Q4 2024.
SmakMAK was founded in 2004 and is a producer of ready meals offered by large Polish retail chains.
Eurofound (2023), SmakMAK, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 200541, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/200541.
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