2017 has been a key year for our Group Europe Snacks – Kolak which has celebrated its first anniversary last October. A strategic rapprochment for both companies which has allowed us to take new opportunities, to develop our activity and increase our ambition on a European scale !
Among numerous achievements, we will particularly keep in mind the start of a new Stacked Chips line and a Popcorn line at the Stevenage site in the United-Kingdom. Moreover, we have launched more than twenty new savoury snacks. This year has also been marked by other successful realizations like our transport pooling which has allowed us to reduce even more our environmental impact, but also the obtention or renewal of our Quality certifications (AIB, IFS, BRC, …) from all our production sites, this shows our real commitment on societal stakes.
As for 2018, we reaffirm our ambition to become « your pan-European partner of choice for your brands, driving innovation across a full range of crisps and snacks ». This new year will be full of new projects for the Group which has the willingness to keep on with its European deployment after its opening to the Russian market, and increase its new product developments with its first organic range …