date:Apr 07, 2014
capital we ever spent.
The integration involves two companies with factories on four continents, he said.
Optimizing the supply chain flows and capacity utilization, therefore, is a major challenge, but it is also a huge opportunity, Mr. Steinemann said. For example, we used the excess capacity in the former Petra factory in Hamburg (Germany) to produce Barry Callebauts cocoa powder. By that, we avoided additional CapEx and capacity extension in cocoa.
The acquired cocoa business contributed