• March 29, 2024

Imperial closing Kyrgyzstan factory

Imperial Tobacco has announced that it is closing its cigarette factory in Kyrgyzstan, according to a story in The Times of Central Asia quoting the press service of the Kyrgyz government.

The Reemtsma Kyrgyzstan factory in the capital Bishkek, which exports some of its output to Afghanistan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, was said to have had a capacity in excess of its production needs.

The decision to close the Bishkek factory was made after an analysis of the company’s worldwide production footprint, which is also leading to the closure of the company’s only U.K. factory and one at Nantes, France.

Kyrgyzstan’s deputy prime minister, Valery Dill, visited the Reemtsma Kyrgyzstan factory last week and called on Imperial to take care of the factory employees who will lose their jobs.