Nestlé has invested CHF 26 million (200 million Egyptian pounds) to extend its ice cream factory in Egypt, one of the company’s biggest ice cream markets in the world.
Nestlé began to make ice cream in Egypt in 1988, when it acquired the Cairo-based Industrie Du Froid company and its Kimo ice cream brand. Demand for ice cream has also enabled Nestlé to create an additional new 200 jobs with this year's investment. Today, Nestlé Egypt has three factories and seven distribution centres, and employs more than 3,000 people.
Nestlé’s ice cream factory is located some 30km from Cairo, at 6th of October City.
The investment at the ice cream factory also includes the introduction of some of the most advanced food production lines of any of Nestlé’s ice cream plants.
The factory extension was inaugurated this week in the presence of Mr Nandu Nandkishore, Executive Vice President Zone Asia, Oceania, Africa, Mr Roger Stettler, Senior Vice President Zone Asia, Oceania, Africa and Mr Suresh Narayanan, Market Head North East Africa Region.
Further significant investments are planned in the coming years to develop the factory’s mixing, processing, chocolate coating and cone filling equipment.
