Frozen food giant PinguinLutosa Food Group has made public its extensive investment programme for its UK activities which will see a total spend of close to £20m through 2010 and 2011.
Already underway is a major refit of PinguinLutosa UK's packing
facilities as well as the commissioning last year of a brand new
frozen bean production line at King's Lynn. At the close of 2010
£6.2m had been spent on PinguinLutosa UK's operations and this is
in addition to the joint venture with Partner Logistics which has
seen the opening of a state of the art cold storage facility in
Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
Still to come in 2011 will be an additional on site 10,000 pallet
space cold store, a new high speed freezing production line, a more
environmentally friendly biological effluent plant and a brand new
development centre. A total investment of over £13m.
UK Managing Director, Peter Denolf commented that "this exciting
investment plan keeps PinguinLutosa at the forefront of frozen food
production in the UK and will allow us to continue to offer our
customers a highly efficient service as well as top quality British
produce."
As well as this huge investment in its UK business, PinguinLutosa
Food Group also expects to complete the takeover of the d'aucy
frozen food group in May 2011.