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Food and beverage production
The main objective of the Food & Beverage industry is to provide safe, high-quality and affordable nutrition to consumers worldwide. It plays an essential role in the global food chain by transforming raw agricultural commodities into end products that meet the needs of increasingly sophisticated consumers. The industry is a key contributor to society’s goals of ensuring food security and public health. It is also one of the biggest innovators, a stable source of employment and incomes, and a major driver of socio-economic development.
The Food & Beverage industry involves the processing and transformation of agricultural and livestock goods into products for intermediate or final consumption. The manufacture of meat and dairy products, flour and milling by-products, oils, sugar, chocolate, frozen food, animal feed, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as tobacco products, are all part of this industry. The industry’s products are usually sold to wholesalers and retailers for distribution to consumers.
The Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) food and drink sector is a cornerstone of the region's manufacturing industry. According to the EU Food and Drink Industry report for 2023, in Poland the industry generated a turnover of EUR 69.7bn, contributing ...
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The industrial production value of the Polish food and beverage industry stood at PLN 454.4bn in 2023, which represented 13.3% of the economy's GDP (measured at current prices). The export market plays a key role in the development of the Polish food ...
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Poland's food and beverage products had a sold production value of PLN 401.3bn in 2022, representing 14.2% of Polish GDP. The industrial production index (IPI) for food products expanded by 9.4% y/y in 2022 and the IPI for beverage products grew by ...
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The sold production of the food & beverage industry stood at PLN 299.7bn in 2021, which represented 11.4% of the total value of industrial production. Poland is an important food producer within the EU. In 2022, it was the top poultry meat producer, ...
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The beverage manufacturing sector in Poland was responsible for 1.4% of the country’s GDP in 2019 and generated 23,100 direct jobs. Poland is a significant alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages producer. It ranks no. 1 in the EU and ...
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The GVA of the manufactured food products sector in Poland in 2019 stood at PLN 49.7bn and accounted for 2.5% of the country’s total GVA. The output value of the sector was PLN 247.2bn, which represented 10.9% of the economy’s ...
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The beverages sector was responsible for around 1.4% of the GDP in 2018 and generated more than 300,000 direct and indirect jobs. Poland is a significant alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages producer. It ranks first among EU vodka producers, third ...
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In 2018 the food sector's GVA stood for 2.5% of Poland’s total GVA. Overall, the food sector GVA accounted for 2.2% of the country's GDP in 2018. Poland was the EU’s sixth biggest food producer in terms of output value as well as the ...
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The importance of the food manufacturing industry has always been crucial for the Polish economy's history and this has not changed nowadays: in 2016, the food sector's GVA was 2.7% of Poland’s total GVA and 2.39% of the country’s GDP, ...
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