Baker’s Inn is set to install a $5 million third production line at its Belmont plant in Bulawayo, a development that will see the company producing 220 000 loaves a day up from 120 000.
The move will create jobs.
Baker’s Inn general manager Mr Felix Vazhure told Business Chronicle:
Currently, with the two production lines here, we are producing 120 000 loaves a day. The plant that is coming here from Harare is five-years-old and it produces 100 000 loaves a day. On the 19th or 20th of April that plant will be moved this side. If we are to knock it down now, it means we will not be able to meet demand during the Easter and Independence holidays as demand for bread will be high.
Baker’s Inn Belmont factory supplies Bulawayo, the Midlands, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South, and Masvingo provinces as well as Eastern lowveld in Chiredzi. Turning to employment figures, Mr Vazhure said the coming on board of the third production line would create an additional 200 jobs indirectly. He Said:
On the production side we employ 135 people. Now with the coming in of a new plant, we are looking at employing an additional minimum of 60 people on the production side. Actually, there are more people selling than those employed in the production section because there (production) you can automate but on selling you cannot.
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