Imperial Tobacco to move its production to Poland
British Imperial Tobacco, which owns Gauloises and Davidoff brands will close its factories in Nottingham and Nantes and move its production to Germany and Poland, company announced. This move will cost about 900 jobs in United Kingdom and France.
The company, world’s fourth largest producer of cigarettes has been struggling lately. The Nottingham plant while capable of making 36 billion cigarettes a year will produce less then half of that number this year, while the plant in Nantes will churn only 9 billion cigarettes instead of 21 billion it is capable of.
The number of smokers in western Europe has been in decline over the last year, while in the emerging country such figures are very often on the rise.
The company hopes to save €385 billion by 2018 thanks to this move. Imperial Tobacco owns two factories in Poland.
