ZAGREB, Sept 30 (Hina) - The management of Croatian meat industry PIK Vrbovec and the owner of Germany's largest company for the distribution of canned meat, Hamburg-based "Werner Simon", on Thursday signed a DM17 million-contract on
the export of Croatian canned meat products onto the German market. The first shipment of a regular monthly 300,000 tonnes of PIK Vrbovec canned meat product will be sent in a few days. The contract is the first Croatian export deal for the market of a European Union country for which PIK Vrbovec was recently granted an official certificate, which expires towards the end of next year. "This contract ensures the employment of 47 percent of PIK Vrbovec's production capacities," PIK Vrbovec head of management Zlatko Dominikovic said in Hamburg. "Currently we are preparing several more strategic partner contracts which will be signed with other EU countrie
ZAGREB, Sept 30 (Hina) - The management of Croatian meat industry
PIK Vrbovec and the owner of Germany's largest company for the
distribution of canned meat, Hamburg-based "Werner Simon", on
Thursday signed a DM17 million-contract on the export of Croatian
canned meat products onto the German market.
The first shipment of a regular monthly 300,000 tonnes of PIK
Vrbovec canned meat product will be sent in a few days.
The contract is the first Croatian export deal for the market of a
European Union country for which PIK Vrbovec was recently granted
an official certificate, which expires towards the end of next
year.
"This contract ensures the employment of 47 percent of PIK
Vrbovec's production capacities," PIK Vrbovec head of management
Zlatko Dominikovic said in Hamburg. "Currently we are preparing
several more strategic partner contracts which will be signed with
other EU countries," he added.
"Werner Simon" covers 70 percent of Germany's canned meat products
market.
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