EZAKI GLICO BUILDS NEW TOKYO-AREA FACTORY
October 1st, 2010
BY WANG FANGQING
JAPANESE snacks manufacturer Ezaki Glico has started to build a new factory on October 5 in Kitamoto city, Japan's Saitama Prefecture, to serve Greater Tokyo and seven nearby prefectures - easily the country's largest market. The new factory will manufacture snacks such biscuits, cookies and chocolate, and is scheduled to start operations in spring 2012. "At the moment we have no plan to have it supply the markets overseas," said an Osaka-based spokesman. Occupying a total area of 118,000-square metres, the factory would be Glico's ...
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