Lindt Australia: opens new facility in Sydney

Kilchberg / CH. (ls) Lindt + Sprüngli Australia (Lindt + Sprüngli) has officially opened its new 60 million AUD purpose built facility at Marsden Park in Sydney’s west on July 04, 2016 as it expands its operations to capitalise on the chocolate makers strong growth in the Australian market. The Marsden Park facility will employ up to 350 staff, with approximately 80 percent of those from Sydney’s western suburbs which sits at the heart of the Western Sydney growth corridor. Lindt + Sprüngli’s Group CEO Ernst Tanner, who is visiting Australia for the milestone event, said that the company’s decision to enter the Australian market nearly twenty years ago has proven to be one of the most successful ventures in the company’s history. «Never did we anticipate the reception that Lindt chocolates would receive in Australia when we first entered the market here. I am delighted that the growth of our business in Australia has allowed us to not only expand our operations but to provide people in Sydney’s West with employment opportunities with Lindt», said Tanner. The purpose-built facility covers a 66’000 square metre site, with over 25’000 square metres of factory and warehouse space, and forms part of the 2.9 billion AUD investment in the Sydney Business Park which will host a range of retail and recreational businesses. This month the Lindt factory began spinning a new range of Lindt Easter eggs which will be available to the public in Easter 2017 using chocolate imported from Switzerland.