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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.20 - Processing and preserving of fish, crustaceans and molluscs
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
Danish-Polish fish processing company BG Production has announced that it will create at least 400 jobs at its new facility in Białogard. The company has decided to expand the business in Poland and lease a modern production facility comprising 5,000 m2 of space at the Białogard Invest Park; after the five-year leasing contract expires, the company is to buy the facility. The plant is expected to be operational in July 2017.
BG Production has been operating in Poland since 2010; the company has a plant in Wieniotów near Ustroń Morski. It is specialising in processing of salmon and cod.
Sources
20 December 2016: Białogard Info
Citation
Eurofound (2016), BG Production, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 89771, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89771.
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