Hortex lavishes $8.5m on Oracle Polska IT equipment

Hortex Holding, the largest producer of juices and frozen fruits and vegetables on the Polish market, spent $8.5 million on implementation of a computerized system delivered by Oracle Polska. At present, Hortex has already implemented modules of Oracle E-Business Suite, facilitating financial management and the production process. "Thanks to the investment, our company has become more competitive on the market and we have managed to reduce the number of employees in certain divisions," said Piotr M. Majchrzak, the vice president of the board at Hortex Holding. According to him the completion of the computerization of the company is part of the restructuring process. Hortex plans to further reduce employment by around 66%, and shut down four production plants. (Prawo i Gospodarka p. 4) A.K.