Another Food Industry Company Leaves Costa Rica

Mondelēz International is closing its operations causing businesses in the productive sector to reaffirm their concern over the country's loss of competitiveness.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

From a statement issued by the Costa Rican Chamber of the Food Industry:

CACIA receives with concern news of Mondelez plant closure

May, 2016. The Costa Rican Chamber of the Food Industry (CACIA) reacted with concern to the news of the company Mondelez's closure of industrial operations in Costa Rica, where it manufactured traditional products which weighed heavily in Costa Rican exports.

According to Jose Manuel Hernando, President of CACIA, "any company in any productive area is required to rethink itself permanently in search of results in operational efficiency, modernization, economies of scale, reducing unnecessary costs, etc. The movements that global companies make are normal in their international context. However, from the perspective of the Costa Rican industry, the exit of such an important and traditional plant, is news that requires political leaders and the authorities in charge of production, to profoundly reflect on the conditions that the country has systematically lost in recent years and which facilitate decisions such as these".

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