Dutch company Zwanenberg Food Group will decide in the next few months on whether to sell or retain and “invest” in its fresh foods business, a spokesperson told just-food today (5 April).

Zwanenberg revealed recently it was “considering several options for the future growth” of the fresh foods unit, which supplies sliced and “speciality” meats.

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However, the spokesperson confirmed today: “It’s a case of either investing in the business ourselves or selling it. It’s a 50-50 thing at the moment. It will take three or maybe four months for us to decide.”

The fresh foods unit, which generated sales of around EUR120m (US$128m) in 2016, employs about 265 people.

The unit has three sites. These include a facility in Aalsmeer, south-west of Amsterdam, that slices and packages meat for the out-of-home market, a plant in Borculo, in the east of the country, which produces cooked and smoked meat products and a site in Zoetermeer, 30km north of Rotterdam, which makes liver and tongue “specialities”.

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