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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.3 - Processing And Preserving Of Fruit And Vegetables
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
2 November 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Rigas Dzirnavnieks is the Latvian subsidiary of the Lithanian grain processing group Baltic Mill. The company decided to relocate production activities from Estonia to Latvia investing EUR 10 million in the coming years to strengthen its positions in the market. Relocation will start in 2019 with the production of packaged peas and bean products. The company is currently looking for new people to enroll in the production and warehouse departments.
Eurofound (2018), Rigas Dzirnavnieks, Reshoring in Latvia, factsheet number 3, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/3.
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