WGRO zl.100 ml. wholesale food market in Poznan

WGR-MRS, a partnership owned mainly by the Wielkopolska WGRO food market and the city of Poznan, has announced plans to construct a logistic center in Poznan for wholesaling meat, fish and dairy products worth zl. 100 million. The center will be completed by the second half of 2001, and will be the most modern in Europe, meeting all the newest standards of the European Union (EU). "Companies using the space in our center will become shareholders and they will have to bring in some capital for investment purposes," said WGRO president Jan Ciesielski. He predicts that the opening of the wholesale market will shorten distribution channels and in turn decrease the prices consumers pay for food. "This shortened distribution will force us to organize a special system of logistic, IT and quality control services," said Ciesielski. "The new wholesale market will tidy up the flow of part of these goods in town and reduce transportation of food products through inner Poznan," said Ireneusz Fechner of Poznan's Logistics and Planning Institute. (Puls Biznesu, p. 13) M.M.