Gillette to increase employment as new production plant in Łódź to open soon

The three halls of the production facility will host Gillette, the packaging company Sonoco and Exel, which is responsible for logistics. "We supply workers and know-how, while Gillette provides building and equipment. Currently we are transfering 50 production lines from all over Europe to Łódź and this process will be concluded in Q1 2006. At present we employ 500 people, but we will eventually employ 1000," said Arkadiusz Nocuń, financial director of Sonoco. Both suppliers have Gillette as their sole client and thus their development will be dependent on the decisions of the American company. "Gillette will eventually employ 1100 people," said Karolina Kalamat from Gillette. "Currently 600 people work in the plant. We are happy because at the moment of signing the investment permit, the company planned to employ this amount of workers in total. However this figure will go up to 2,000," said Andrzej Ośniecki, president of the economic zone. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 10) M.M.