♦ In total, in the food industry, over 180,000 employees operate ♦ Most companies and most employees are in the bakery sector, and in the top ten employers from all over the food industry there are two names.
Tinervis Group, which operates the chain of Luca Simigeri, was last year the largest employer in the food industry, in a ranking dominated by Romanian shareholders, shows an analysis by the data from the Ministry of Finance. Basically, the production and sale of donuts, croissants, pizza or other bakery products in more than 140 stores has transformed the Luca brand into a company with over 2,600 employees, and last year over 300 names were added to the employees. In the last decade, the donuts have become the daily destination for breakfast for more and more Romanians, which is why the number of these units has increased strongly. And over time the tails from Simigerii went to the whole day, a sign that Romanians choose cheaper or faster products to the detriment of home cooking. And Luca has gradually expanded outside the country, having, from the last data, nine units in Poland. Appeared on the market in 2010, in the last ten years, TANRVIS GROUP has recruited over 2,000 people. In the ranking of the largest players there is also Comim Romania (formerly Smithfield), the leader of pork production, which has more than 2,300 employees, less than in the previous year, according to data from the Ministry of Finance. Comtim grows over 900,000 pigs annually and has several farms. Also, in the Top ten is present and Elit, one of the processed product divisions of the Comtim, which in recent years has developed including through processing purchases.
The podium is completed by Transavia, a company present on the chicken meat market. having an integrated activity. The more than 2,200 employees operate in 31 bird growth farms and in the four plant production farms, in the combined feed factory, in the three slaughterhouses and in the meat processing factory. In the company's farms, located in eight counties in Romania, 100,000 tons of chicken are produced annually, according to the latest data. If we look in time, in 2024 the largest employer in the field was unique, owned by the Lucuţ family. Unicarm, however, it separated the activity of trade and remained on this company only with food production, making from meat, milk, but also bread and ice cream products, according to the latest data. Basically, in the top ten employers in the food field, eight are active in the field of meat processing, and only two Tinervis and Vel Pitar in bread production although the latter segment is the most important as a turnover and as employees in the food sector. In total, in the food industry, over 180,000 employees operate, according to the latest data, and the last few years have brought an increase in the number of employees. In recent years, the sector has become attractive due to the higher salaries coming as a result of fiscal facilities that the producers benefited. The ten largest employers in the field last year had over 19,000 employees, ie about 10% of the total works in the sector, ZF calculations show.
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