MORINAGA TO BUILD NEW CONFECTIONARY PLANT
November 1st, 2010
BY WANG FANGQING
Japan's Morinaga &Co is to invest about Japanese Yen JPY10 billion (US dollars USD12.3 million) to build a new plant in Takasaki city, Gunma Prefecture, near Tokyo. It will replace its existing Tsukaguchi plant of Hyogo Prefecture, in southern Honshu, a major manufacturing base of Morinaga. The new plant, which will occupy 15,000 square-metres, will manufacture sweets and chocolate for its two popular brands Hi-Chew and Carré de Chocolat. It is slated to start operation in July 2013 with an expected annual shipment of product worth JPY10 ...
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