RESHORING CASE

Polarica

Company details
Code: 
Polarica
Company name: 
Polarica Wild Food
Company country: 
Sweden
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C10 - Manufacture of food products
Sub-sectors: 
C10.3 - Processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
15/03/2017
Reshored to: 
Sweden
Location of affected unit(s): 
Haparanda
Location code: 
SE082
Reshored business function: 
Production
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Partial
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Estimated job gains: 
3
Reasons for reshoring: 
Corporate social responsibility image
Logistics costs
Proximity to suppliers
Case narrative: 

Polarica Wild Food is a company located in Haparanda (Sweden) and it was founded in 1972. It is Europe's leader in supplying berries, mushrooms and game meat. In the spring of 2017, the company moved part of its packaging operations from Swidwin in Poland to Haparanda in Sweden. The goal is to move the packaging of Swedish and Finnish berries closer to their place of origin and shorten transporting times to Finnish and Swedish markets, even though some of the production is exported to other parts of Europe and Asia. Juha Ruohola, the CEO of Polarica, stated that that the company takes its environmental responsibility seriously and seeks therefore to shorten the transporting times.Polarica will hire three new employees for the company’s factory in Haparanda.

Sources: 

Food Supply,15/03/2017

Sources link: 

http://www.food-supply.se/article/view/384080/polarica_flyttar_polsk_ver...

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
Poland
Offshored business function: 
Production
Offshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Host country geographical area: 
Western Europe