Philip Morris Italia has announced the arrival in Italy of further investments linked to the Italian supply chain of innovative products without combustion.
A new Digital Information Service Center in Marcianise
Thanks to an investment of approx 50 million euros in 5 years, in Marcianise (Caserta) the second Italian Digital Information Service Center will open after the one inaugurated in Taranto at the end of 2020, where over 300 people are currently employed.
Il Philip Morris DISC Campania will become an advanced assistance center aimed at adult consumers of combustion-free products in Italy, which will be managed by a company active in the branch of digital consumer services and it will employ over 200 people fully operational by 2023. The center will be operational by the first quarter of 2023 and will integrate the company's customer care activities nationwide.
A primary storage center in Bastia Umbria
From Campania to Umbria. In Bastia Umbra, in the province of Perugia, the European Leaf Warehousing Center (ELWC), the new first tobacco storage center destined for the company's main production sites in Europe, including the Crespellano (Bologna) plant, where in 2016 the company built the first production plant in the world for smokeless inhalation tobacco products.
The new site will have an extension of up to 30.000 square meters by 2023 and will be located next to the offices of Philip Morris Italia which from Bastia Umbra manage the purchase of Philip Morris International leaf tobacco for all of Europe. The center will be operated in collaboration with a leading third-party company and is expected up to 50 jobs.
“We continue to invest in Italy, year after year, in agriculture, industry and services, stimulating the development of an integrated Made in Italy supply chain which today involves over 38.000 people.” - he has declared Marco Hannappel, president and CEO of Philip Morris Italy, who added – “We are particularly proud to increase our presence in Campania and Umbria, both tobacco regions with which we have a long history of collaboration.”
“These investments further enrich the company's integrated supply chain on the national territory, focused on the products of smokeless inhalation tobacco with which the company intends to build a smoke-free future, eliminating cigarettes in the shortest possible time”, underlines the company in a note.
