Gardenia to invest P1 B for Mindanao expansion

LEADING bread manufacturer Gardenia Bakeries is investing nearly P1 billion in a fully automated bread manufacturing plant in Mindanao to serve the continuously growing bread demand in the south.

Gardenia’s president Jun Umali said the company will soon be constructing a new state- ofthe- art bread manufacturing facility in a 2.5 hectare land in Phividec Industrial Estate in Misamis Oriental, adjacent to Cagayan de Oro ( CDO).

“Gardenia’s Mindanao plant is a completely new breadline that will feature robotics and the latest available technologies in modern baking sourced from the best bakery equipment suppliers from all over the world like in Germany, the Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia and Japan,” Umali said.

The fusion of bakery equipment from the different parts of the world is one of Gardenia’s advantages according to Umali, “Gardenia’s operations in Sin- gapore, Malaysia, Australia, China and Indonesia helped it develop the expertise of combining the best baking equipment from different sources worldwide and make them work as one integrated unit which enable us to develop a proprietary manufacturing process unique to Gardenia.”

Premium ingredients used in baking are also sourced globally to ensure the high quality and great taste of Gardenia products. “We use flour made from US wheat, milled to Gardenia’s high quality specifications, milk from Australia or USA, and other imported premium ingredients,” Umali said.

Gardenia will also take advantage of its location to ensure regular availability of ingredients supplies through the ports of CDO.

The manufacturing facility will have a total capacity of producing 130,000 loaves and buns a day which will be distributed with an expanded fleet of trucks all over Mindanao.