Nestle to launch new factory in Poland

Global holding Nestle will open a new pet food production plant in Poland in early 2015, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. The value of the investment is some PLN 300 million. The factory, located in Nowa Wieś Wrocławska in southwestern Poland, will initially employ 230 people. “Poland is the biggest market for pet food in Central and Eastern Europe,” said Nestle Polska director José Ignacio Lopezmalo Perezcarpy. The company stressed that 90 percent of the ingredients used in production at the new factory will come from Polish suppliers.