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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Tobacco Products Manufacture Of Tobacco Products 12.00 - Manufacture of tobacco products
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
27 June 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
The Emirates-based tobacco company Al Fakher has announced that it will create 100 jobs at its new production facility in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland. The factory was officially opened on 27 June 2019. The investment process was supported by the Polish Investment and Trade Agency. Due to rising popularity of shisha smoking globally, the UAE-based company decided to place its factory in Europe. The company was founded in the United Arab Emirates in 1999. Al Fakher is one of the world’s largest producers flavour shisha molasses.
Eurofound (2019), Al Fakher Tobacco, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 98119, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98119.
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