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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10 - Manufacture of food products
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 December 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Unilever will construct a tea packaging plant in Katowice. The investment will amount to zł 60 million. The firm will invest zł 120 million in the construction of a new production facility of culinary products. "Construction of the first plant will be concluded in the first half of 2006," explained president of Unilever Poland Chris Bull. Unilever will invest zł.15 million in the expansion of its cosmetics manufacturing division in Bydgoszcz. ‘We plan to export over 80% of the new output to European countries,’ said Bull. Over the past six years Unilever has invested zł.415 million in the development of its business in Poland.
Sources
22 December 2005: Pula Biznesu
23 December 2005: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Unilever, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 62699, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62699.
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