With more than 9,200 employees, in 20 countries, we have strong teams in all countries and highly professional plants with passionate people who create our beloved brands. We live in a complex environment with 13 currencies, 16 languages and all existing trade formats. Mondelēz International has a strong manufacturing footprint in Central Europe with a long tradition of industrial excellence.
We manufacture our products in 20 production sites and are an important employer in the food industry in our area and beyond.
We have a leading position in the snacking market in Europe and we are proud to have strong global brands with a long heritage in our portfolio, like Milka, Toblerone, Oreo or belVita. Next to our global power brands like TUC crackers or Halls gum and candies and Trident gum, we make some of the most iconic local snacking brands – including Figaro, Svoge, Poiana, Mirabell and Suchard chocolate, Prince Polo wafers, Fidorka, Opavia and Pilota biscuits.
As a consumer-centric company, we are truly passionate to excite consumers and fulfil their needs. Located at the heart of Central Europe, in Wroclaw, Poland, the global Research, Development, Quality & Innovation Center is THE PLACE where some of our next consumer favorite novelties - in taste, shape or format – are getting their flavor and beginning. Thanks to our passionate experts working here in Wroclaw, such as scientists or engineers, we have state of the art facility for new ideas and experimentation. The Wroclaw RDQ Center – together with two more R&D sites located in CE in Munich and Loerrach in Germany - closely collaborates on innovations with more than 40 sites in our manufacturing network across Europe.
Courageous Challenges is what we are famous for in CE Area. No matter if you work in Sales, Marketing, CS&L, Finance or HR, at one of our manufacturing facilities, Grow Every Day is a reality. We are proud to offer significant opportunities to learn and grow, and respective support you need to be at your best, and the scope for your personal initiative to shape your own success. In CE, we step outside the comfortable, we embrace challenges.
In Central Europe we are an active initiator of and participant in projects for local communities and employee volunteering programs. We are also super proud to grow our sustainability agenda - where responsible wheat sourcing is one of our core achievements.
As the largest biscuit producer in Europe MDLZ has an important role in preventing climate change and raw materials shortages. By promoting sustainable farming practices and improving local biodiversity, we are setting an example for the entire industry as well as create the opportunity for consumers to make responsible choices.
We introduced the HARMONY program four years ago in Czech Republic and expanded in Poland in 2019. Today, the Harmony program involves 1,700 farmers, 13 millers and 21 co-operatives across Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland, and Spain. And this year, Harmony wheat was also sowed in Hungary for the first time. Consumers in European countries will find the Harmony logo on packs of global brands like belVita, produced in our Czech plants in Lovosice and Opava, as well as on Barni/Lubisie produced in Plonsk plant in Poland – and can be confident knowing their delicious biscuits were Made Right with sustainably source wheat!