UAB
Vilniaus
Duona
is having its 125th anniversary this year. To celebrate this, the company has started the construction works of a new bakery in the industrial area of Vilnius city, near the Aukštieji Paneriai
zone. In early 2008 Vilniaus Duona
will start the baking and distribution operations on the
new site. UAB Megarenta, a real estate development and management company, is Vilniaus
Duona’s
partner in this project.
The construction works of the new bakery started today on the site with
due ceremonies, where the members of the Boards of Directors and operative
Directors of the partners installed into the foundation of the coming bakery a
capsule, containing the drawings of the building and the regards and wishes to
the future generations. The new baking and logistics centre will be the most advanced in the Baltic countries. The
factory will be built according to the latest innovations and standards, based
on the modern design developed by Vilniaus Duona’s
parent company, the Vaasan
& Vaasan Group, in Finland.
“Vilniaus Duona’s
new bakery will be built based on the needs of our customers. The new bakery will be very flexible in operations and it provides our customers with top quality products. The requirements set by the retail customers and consumers will drive the bakery business to increase the freshness and quality of the products. With the future in the mind, the Baltic retail trade will be offered by us with a more unified product assortment in all Baltic countries. Our strength as the market leader gives us the platform to supply our customers with the highest quality of branded, fresh bakery products. In addition to this, the new bakery will also make it possible to produce value added products to all Baltic markets and to increase the efficiency and profitability of our company”, said Mr. Matti Lappalainen,
the CEO and Managing
Director of
the Vaasan & Vaasan Group.
“The construction of the new bread factory is part of the restructuring
process of Vilniaus
Duona.
Our strategy is to focus on extremely efficient industrial bread business, which will enable us to produce traditional and innovative branded products to all our Baltic customers, said Mrs. Rita Ramanauskienė,
the General Director
of UAB Vilniaus Duona.
On the longer run the company will concentrate all operations in two locations in Lithuania, in Vilnius and Panevėžys.
”.
“The technical design and construction of the real state-of-the-art bread
factory, the most modern and advanced unit in all Baltic countries, is one of
the most ambitious projects we have had so far”, said Mr. Mikas Rimantas,
the General Director of UAB MG Valda,
a member of the MG Baltic Group, and the parent company of UAB Megarenta,
the partner of Vilniaus Duona in this project.
The new bread factory will start the operations next year. The factory will be expanded in the future with additional constructions accommodating several new production lines. The new factory building will be equipped with the most modern production equipment, focused to exceed all hygienic standards. For efficient and safe work the building will be also equipped with central cleaning and dust extraction systems.
Additional information:
Rita Ramanauskienė
General Director
UAB Vilniaus
duona
A. Vivulskio
g. 41, LT-03114 Vilnius
Tel: + 370 85 233 07 00
Fax: + 370 85
213 96 60
E-mail: rita.ramanauskiene@vduona.lt
vduona@vduona.lt
www.vilniausduona.lt
The
Vaasan & Vaasan Group is the
largest bakery business in Finland and the Baltic region, and the
second-largest Nordic operator in bake-off products. The Group consists of
Vaasan & Vaasan Oy in Finland, AS Leibur
in Estonia, A/S Hanzas Maiznicas in Latvia, UAB Vilniaus
Duona
in Lithuania and Nordic Bake Off AB in Sweden.
In 2006 the Group had a turnover of EUR
334 million and it employed 3,450 people.
UAB Vilniaus Duona is the leading
bakery in Lithuania and the largest bakery in the Baltic countries. At present the company has four bakeries in Vilnius and one bakery in Panevėžys.
The company also has two distribution centres, one in Vilnius and the other in Panevezys.
In 2006 the net sales of the company was 78 million litas ( EUR
23 million) and it had 840 employees.
The net sales of Vilniaus Duona in the first five
months of this year amounted to 37 million litas ( 10.7 million euros), showing a
growth of 20 percent compared to the last year.
Vilniaus Duona’s partner in the new
bakery building project is UAB MG Valda, which is the
leading real estate development company in Lithuania. It was founded in 1995. The company is today the largest office space management company in Lithuania. MG Valda manages in Vilnius 40,000
square meters
of modern offices and has one of the biggest logistics centres. At present MG Valda is actively involved in the development of various real estate projects in Lithuania and Latvia.
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