Meat processor Bartek expects exports to EU to blossom following investment

Meat company Sierakow-based ZM Bartek has begun construction of a new processing plant in Klosowice at a cost of zl. 20 million, which will triple its output. The investment is being financed from the company's own capital and preferential loans. The new plant should be opened in May and will employ 100. "It will meet all EU standards and should throw open the E uropean market for us," said Krzysztof Fedor from ZM Bartek. According to company president, Tadeusz Bartkowiak, the project will form the core of an expanded meat and animal-feed enterprise. "The cost of transforming our Cmachow plant into a dog-food producer is between zl. 2-3 million, with the project scheduled to be completed in 2004," said Bartkowiak. ZM Bartek was established in 1990 and is a major supplier to the Danish Netto supermarket chain. (Puls Biznesu, p. 12) M.M.