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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.7 - Manufacture Of Bakery And Farinaceous Products
260 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 July 2024
Employment effect (start)
2 July 2024
Foreseen end date
31 March 2025
Description
Dr Gerard, a confectionery company, will hire 260 people in its plants in Radzyń Podlaski and Międzyrzec Podlaski.
The restructuring aims to increase production, creating four new production lines at both plants. The first will become fully operational in Q3 of 2024, the second one in Q1 of 2025. The new jobs will focus mainly on wafer and snack production, mainly employing production workers.
Dr Gerard, owned by Spanish Adam Foods, employs over 1130 people and reported over PLN 500 million in sales for 2023.
Eurofound (2024), Dr Gerard, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 201365, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201365.
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