“Bag consumption is on the rise, demand from the food and pharmaceutical industries and from customers in other sectors is greater. We expect double-digit growth, 10%, this year. Our sales in January were higher,” Florin Adrian Dimofte, strategy and development manager of Barleta, told ZF.
He is one of the shareholders of the company, with a 22.5% stake.
Barleta sells paper bags and sacks to supermarkets and hypermarkets, as well to milling and bakery companies, pharmaceutical companies and fast-food restaurants. The customer list includes Carrefour, KFC and Pambac, according to the latest data available.
The company ended last year with EUR15 million revenue, up 15% on the previous year. It sold almost 30% of its production in Romania and exported the rest to France, Germany, Italy, Israel, United Kingdom and other countries.
“We’ll continue to invest in packaging and printing equipment, we have a EUR3 million budget for this year. We are also considering development of production capacity.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)