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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.12 - Processing and preserving of poultry meat
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 October 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Polish producer of meat and poultry products Animex, a subsidiary of Smithfield Group, has announced that it will create 1,000 jobs at its new poultry slaughterhouse in Koryta near Łęczyca, Poland. The unit is expected to be operational at the beginning of 2019. As the source reports, the company is looking for production staff, including machine operators, as well as financial controllers, maintenance specialists, technicians, quality controllers, warehouse staff and logistics specialists. The investment was initiated in 2016 by Pini Polonia, a meat company, which was acquired by Animex in 2017.
Animex was founded in 1951 as a state-owned enterprise. Currently the company is part of the Smithfield Group, a global food company.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Animex, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 95618, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95618.
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