Mondelez International to build biscuit plant in Bahrain
Mondelez International Inc., Deerfield, IL, plans to invest $90 million in building a biscuit plant in the Kingdom of Bahrain to meet rising demand in the Middle East and Africa for its biscuits, such as Oreo, Ritz and TUC.
With full commercial production scheduled to start in early 2016, the facility will be Mondelez International’s most advanced manufacturing site in the Middle East and Africa, where demand for its biscuits has been growing at double-digit rates. In the initial two- to three-year phase, the new plant will operate four biscuit-manufacturing lines with a total capacity of nearly 90,000 tons per year. Like other Mondelez plants, the facility will be scalable.