Jawo in joint venture with Japanese food group

Japaneses food sector giant Ajinomoto plans to create a joint venture company with Polish frozen food producer Jawo, Puls Biznesu reports. The companies have filed a motion for approval to the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection. The two companies have been cooperating since 2013, when Jawo started producing Japanese gyoza dumplings for Ajinomoto. They were later exported to Western European countries, such as France, the UK and Germany. “As the market for Japanese food is strongly developing there, we decided that the next stage will be a common enterprise, which  will be a gateway to the whole EU,” Jawo’s CEO Renata Kasprzycka told the daily. Before, a majority of the production was located in Asia. The joint venture firm will launch a new factory in April 2015. It will employ 40 people, in addition to Jawo’s current 150 employees.