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INVESTMENTS IN CONSTRUCTION OF GRUPO BIMBO BAKERY IN UKRAINE AMOUNTS $30 MLN

Investments in the construction of a bakery of the international bakery holding company Grupo Bimbo in Kyiv region will amount to nearly $30 million, General Manager of Bimbo QSR Ukraine Ihor Mariash has said.
“Now, our enterprise is located in Dnipro, but we feel that Ukraine is developing and we do not have enough capacity. Therefore, our management has an initiative to build a new bakery in Kyiv region. This will create an opportunity to create 200-300 jobs. Total investment about $30 million is planned,” Mariash said during a roundtable entitled “Investment Law: Projects for First Billion” held on Friday.
According to him, it is planned to build lines for the production of buns, as well as tortilla and toast bread, which are currently not produced in Ukraine.
As Head of the International Relations and Communications Department of UkraineInvest Investment Promotion Office Olena Gitlianska said earlier, the investment company is helping a Mexican investor in finding a site for the construction of a plant in Fastiv.
According to the data of the unified public register of legal entities and private entrepreneurs, Bimbo QSR Ukraine was registered in 2000 by Dutch Bimbo QSR B. V in Dnipro with a charter capital of UAH 297 thousand.
According to the Grupo Bimbo website, it is represented in 33 countries, has 196 factories and a network of 3 million points of sale worldwide. The bakery holding produces about 13,000 names of products under more than 100 brands.

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