Unilever centralizes and expands production

The company will construct a tea packaging plant in Katowice. "This investment will consume zł.60 million. It envisages the construction of a manufacturing facility, to which we will move our production lines from across Poland, and we will install eight new ones," said Chris Bull, president of Unilever in Poland. The firm will invest zł.120 million in the construction of a new production facility of culinary products. "Construction of the first plant will be concluded in the first half of 2006," explained Bull. Unilever will invest zł.15 million in the expansion of its cosmetics manufacturing division in Bydgoszcz. "We plan to export over 80% of the new output to European countries," said Bull. Over the past six years Unilever has invested zł.415 million in the development of its business in Poland and currently employs 2,700 people. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 10) M.M.