Carmo-Lact targets 10% increase

Bistrita-based Carmo-Lact Prod, a producer of dairy and cheese, estimates a 10 million-euro turnover for this year, up 10% against last year, when the company posted a 9 million-euro turnover. “We think the positive trend of the financial indicators will largely have to do with the launch on the market, at the beginning of 2007, of the new Monor-branded dairy products. There is a very tight competition on the market we operate on, and you pay dearly for any mistake,” Alin Neagos, the company’s financial manager, told ZF Transilvania. The company has budgeted investment worth some 1.6 billion euros for this year in order to build two new livestock farms, as well as to develop and modernise transportation. “We have to pay attention to the consumers’ response to the products coming from outside the country on this market niche. With that in mind, we have decided to expand the area our products are delivered to in 2007, by ‘taking on’ new markets and by working with new supermarkets,” says Alin Neagos.