The company Carambar & Co inaugurated this Monday new chocolate production in Strasbourg, which complete the relocation in France of several brands it has bought the US food giant Mondelez.
This is rare enough to stop. Chocolates hitherto produced in Poland and the Czech Republic will be relocated to France. The company Carambar & Co has inaugurated, Monday, November 19, two new lines of chocolate production in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin). They are intended for the manufacture of Terry's chocolates, very popular brand across the Channel ... until then produced abroad in Mondelez factories. This was explained yesterday Lionel Joly, director of the site of the Grand Est, which has 200 employees.
This operation completes the relocation in France of several brands that Carambar & Co has bought from American food giant Mondelez.
35 million euros for all these relocations
Carambar & Co - born of these purchases - had already repatriated the manufacture of sweets from Spain to Saint-Genest-d'Ambière (Vienne) at the beginning of this year, then that of cocoa powder for chocolates Poulain de l' Germany to Blois (Loir-et-Cher) this autumn.
The investments devoted to these relocations reach 35 million euros, indicates the direction of the group.
That of Strasbourg is the most spectacular since it moves manufacturing from Eastern European countries at lower wage costs. "We have installed automated lines to be competitive, producing at comparable costs , " says Thierry Gaillard, president of Carambar & Co.
One billion Carambar a year
The company is named after the famous caramelized bar, which it manufactures a billion copies each year in Marcq-en-Baroeul (North). It has a fifth factory, for pellets Vichy, in the city of the same name in the Allier.
Krema candies and singing Pie, Suchard Rock chocolates and Malabar chewing gums are among his other brands.