(ANSA) - Novi Ligure, November 8 - Chocolate maker Pernigotti
said Thursday it plans "to externalise its productive activities
solely on national territory".
It said it was looking for "industrial partners in Italy, to
whom to entrust the production, in accordance with the aim of
trying to relocate the maximum number of staff involved with
firms operating in the same sector, or third parties".
It said "the company is already talking to some major Italian
companies in the confectionery sector".
The mayor of Novi Ligure near Alessandria on Wednesday voiced
his opposition to the closure of the main plant of the
loss-making historic local chocolate maker.
Rocchino Muliere said the decision was "absurd and
unacceptable".
Pernigotti says to stay in Italy
Talks to find industrial partners and relocate workers