Fornetti speeds up expansion pace

The consumers’ appetite for pastry has made pastry producer Fornetti Romania speed up the expansion plans it had decided to carry out eighteen months ago when it opened for business. Fornetti Romania holds the master franchise of the Hungarian company under the same name and invested $2 million in a facility in Timisoara eighteen months ago, planning to expand it in three years’ time. “We used up this productive capacity in 11 months, so that we had to invest again,” Zoltan Panczel, general manager of the Romanian branch said. “We are now installing new equipment, which will allow us to expand the capacity and the investment will be worth some $500,000,” he added. The facility in Timisoara makes frozen pastry, which are then distributed to shops across the country. The productive capacity of the factory is 350 tonnes a month. ZF