INVESTMENT
July 14, 2025 – Over the next two years, Gyermelyi Zrt. will build and expand several production units. The current investment program begins with a new, fully automated high-bay warehouse, whose foundation stone was laid in the presence of Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The high-bay warehouse investment is accompanied by an increase in pasta factory capacity and packaging development. With this EUR 32 million investment, the company aims to support its continuously growing export activities.
Gyermelyi currently stores pasta, retail-and bagged flour and their necessary packaging materials in three automated high-bay warehouses at its central site. These three high-bay warehouses have nearly 18,000 pallet spaces. The planned flow-through warehouse will be the fourth storage unit. This automated warehouse, with 17 pallet levels, will be capable of accommodating an additional 10,000 pallets.
This investment is part of a development program that includes the new high-bay warehouse, system upgrades for existing storage units, expansion of the new pasta plant capacity, and packaging system developments. Recent sales growth has approached the previously installed capacity in both pasta production and warehousing, making further development necessary to sustain growth. The expansion of production and storage capacity serves to meet market demands and maintain export momentum. The new packaging systems are designed to meet diverse customer needs and increase production efficiency.
The planned cost of the two-year development is EUR 32 million, of which EUR 4,8 million is a non-refundable state grant provided through Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA).
At the same event, the company also inaugurated its 2.5 MW solar power plant with energy storage, which will soon be followed by an additional 500 kW unit. The EUR 3 million investment, part of the Factory Rescue Program, was supported by EUR 1,387 million in government funding. Together with its other solar installations, Gyermelyi now generates a quarter of its electricity demand from green energy. Committed to sustainable operations, Gyermelyi plans further investments in renewable energy in the coming years.
These two projects together represent a total investment of EUR 35 million, supported by the Government of Hungary with EUR 6,19 million.
A Visit to Gyermelyi
Over the past decades, Gyermelyi Zrt. has earned recognition among Hungarian consumers through its consistent business policy, continuous investments, and excellent quality products. With its main products, it holds a market-leading and thus decisive position in the Hungarian market. In recent years, it has dynamically expanded its export activities, which currently account for 45% of its dry pasta sales.
Gyermelyi is a market leader in pasta production in Hungary, with nearly half of the dry pasta consumed in the country produced at its facility. Alongside its premium egg pasta products, durum pasta is gaining popularity, and integrale and 3-minute express pasta options have also been introduced to the product range.
Few people know that the group operates a completely closed vertical integration for the production of its products, which is unique even at a European level. This ensures significant quantitative and qualitative security for Gyermelyi products. The integrated model enables quality-focused, cost-effective production while minimizing transport costs and environmental impact.
The crop production sector, which forms the basis of the flour product chain, cultivates 8,600 hectares of land. The main crop is the wheat, with the cultivation of wheat seeds being the most important. The group primarily multiplies high-nutrient-content seed varieties developed by the MTA Martonvásár Research Institute, which are processed in its own seed plant after harvest. From there, the seeds are distributed to Hungarian farmers within the integration network and to company-operated lands, ultimately producing high-quality food-grade wheat for Gyermelyi’s mills. These mills grind soft wheat as well as durum and rye, producing around 20% of the Hungarian flour market’s supply.
Gyermelyi’s laying hen farms currently produce 175 million eggs annually. Some of these are sold as shell eggs, while the rest are used as fresh eggs in the pasta plant.
Chicks are raised on their farms into laying hens using their own feed, ensuring a controlled and safe product chain from the very beginning for eggs as well.
A special value of the Gyermelyi Group, which produces high-quality food, is that it remains entirely in Hungarian private ownership. The owners are mostly private individuals connected to Gyermely, many of whom are still active employees or managers at the company. In addition to its 550 employees, the group provides livelihoods for several hundred other businesses through its suppliers.
Continuous Modernization
The secret to the Gyermelyi Group’s success is that it reinvests a significant portion of its profits into the continuous development of its applied technology and quality management system. The group has invested over EUR 62,5 million in developments over the past five years. In parallel with the developments mentioned above, several major investments are starting.
A new laying farm equipped with alternative housing technology will be built, along with associated rearing barns. In line with the increase in egg production, a new egg processing and packaging plant will also be built in the coming years, along with a new pasta factory building.
The Gyermelyi Group is a true Hungarian success story, both in terms of its adherence to domestic food industry traditions and its business model.
Photos: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, press
