“This year is better than the last because the price of pork is back to normal. The price had previously been below production costs. I could not buy cheap pork from the market because that would have meant giving up my own swine farm, so I swallowed the loss. But now we are making investments,” said Nicolae Ciuleac, manager and majority shareholder of Carniprod.
Nicolae Ciuleac (68) started Carniprod Tulcea together with several partners working for the Tabco plant (part of the Spanish-held Campofrio group) 18 years ago. He owns more than 50% in the business. Carniprod has a meat processing plant in Tulcea, its own swine farm with a total capacity of 70,000 head a year and a store chain.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)