“We’ll keep working, focusing on the biosecurity and safety standards for employees and livestock. We have the ambition to go through this period without resorting to layoffs. We even have new jobs for which we are hiring,” Sergiu Mititelu, country manager of Danish-held Premium Porc, told ZF.
Sergiu Mititelu came to Premium Porc from Hochland Romania, where he worked for almost 18 years and at some point served as CEO.
Premium Porc posted more than EUR91 milion revenue in 2019 and had 475 employees.
The Premium Porc official says that unlike other industries, the agri-food sector was better prepared to deal with the current situation, because of its almost two-year battle with the African swine fever virus. Early in January, Premium Porc found a case of swine fever at a farm in Braila County and had about 26,000 pigs killed.
“So, we are now fighting on both fronts, of the biosecurity of our coworkers and of the biosecurity of the livestock we raise (…). We are the main supplier of swine to the national non-affiliated slaughterhouses.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)