In the announcement about the purchasing procedure published on Thursday, the company explained that its subject “is the selection of professional and competitive in market conditions suppliers who will produce cookies under Orlen’s own brand.”
The company said that the products in question were crispy corn cookies in milk chocolate, oat cookies in milk chocolate, cereal cookies without chocolate coating with linseed and cereal cookies without chocolate coating with sunflower seeds.
Orlen noted that the procedure, which “aims to gather information of a formal, technical and commercial nature,” will be conducted in two stages, with plans to conduct consumer tests, the results of which “will constitute one of the criteria for selecting a supplier.” Samples of cookies must be submitted for testing, each of which must include, among other things, the manufacturer’s name, a description of the flavor, as well as allergen tables and the sample’s expiration date.
The company announced that it plans to sign a framework agreement with selected cookie manufacturers. “Orlen reserves the right to finally contract selected cookie variants that are the subject of the inquiry. The assumed duration of the framework agreement: for an indefinite period” – it was stated in the procedure documentation. The deadline for submitting offers was set for 31 July this year.
Orlen also recalled that it currently sells products from the category that includes the procedure for selecting suppliers of cookies under the concern’s own brand at over 1,920 petrol stations.
After the first quarter of this year, Orlen reported that it had 1,925 petrol stations in Poland. It also announced that investment outlays in the retail segment of the concern were to total PLN 1.1 billion this year.
The Orlen Group is a multi-energy concern that owns refineries in Poland, the Czech Republic and Lithuania, as well as a network of petrol stations, including in Germany, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. It is also developing the hydrocarbon, oil and gas extraction segment, the petrochemical segment and renewable energy sources, and plans to develop safe nuclear energy. By 2030, it intends to launch at least one small nuclear reactor SMR.
Author: Michał Budkiewicz
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