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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.39 - Other processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 February 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2017
Foreseen end date
1 March 2020
Description
The company Mix Buffet, a family owned company that mainly produces mix salads and snack products, has taken over the plant of La Nouvelle Farandole Gourmande in Fougère (Ile-et-Vilaine) that belonged to the group Delifrance. Mix Buffet has announced to invest EUR 6 million in the next three years and to recruit 120 employees. The factory, that closed last spring, will specialise in the manufacture of pastry products. In 2016, the Mix Buffet group achieved a turnover of EUR 200 million with 1,000 employees on permanent employment contract. Mix Buffet will also extend its factory of Pleumeleuc (Ille-et-Vilaine) with an investment of €5 million, and its headquarter in Guer (Morbihan). The Mix Buffet group is also working at its headquarters in Guer (Morbihan) to increase the production of snack products. Controlled by the Le Hir family, the company is one of the leading salad specialists alongside Martinet and Sodebo.
Sources
28 February 2017: Les Echos
28 February 2017: L'usine Nouvelle
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Mix Buffet, Merger/Acquisition in France, factsheet number 90427, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90427.
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