The company reached turnover of RON637.4 million (EUR129.5 million), 3% higher than in 2020. Its average number of employees stood at 1,835.
In 2021, the company invested to retool production, with the process due to be completed in 2021.
Acquired in 2017 by China’s Smithfield, the largest pork producer in Romania, Elit produces over 40,000 tons of cold cuts in the four production units it owns in Alba, Bucharest and Arad, and its products are sold in more than 5,000 stores countrywide, according to the company’s officials.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)