Based on instructions from FIT Group’s parent company, Westfood has been urgently acting decisively the measures to prevent the disease safely & effectively at the company, protect employees’ health then stabilize manufacturing business operations.
In the past time, facing the risk of the Covid 19 pandemic, to ensure stable production and business activities, as well as protect the health insurance of employees, maintain continuous production, meet domestic and foreign orders, comply with Official Dispatch No.14/2020 of the FIT Group on the prevention of Covid 19 disease and instructions of the state, health agencies on pandemic prevention, The Board of Directors of the Company has quickly issued notices and directed all officials and employees to implement measures to prevent epidemics to minimize the spread of infection, specifically:
- Allocating 6,100 medical masks and 1,400 cloth masks (reused) to all officials and employees in the company, it is compulsory to wear masks in offices, factories areas and in case going out.
- Arranging 75° alcohol sprayers around factories and offices to sanitizing hands.
- Organizing more than 10 rounds of Vitamin C intake for the whole company’s employees periodically to enhance resistance.
- Conducting mandatory temperature measurement when employees, customers come to the company, fulfiling a medical declaration is compulsory according to the Company’s regulations.
- Sanitation guidance, notification of the the Covid 19 pandemic’s status, do not gathering are regularly urged and propagandize reminders to all workers by all departments and workshops, for everyone to voluntarily prevent and control epidemics, ensure business production for the company. Seriously penalizing if employees do not follow the regulations issued.
- If the pandemic is serious, be prepaired to halt production to ensure the health of employees.
Westfood employees are required to clean their hands before entering or exiting the factories
In an interview with Can Tho News Department, Mr. Dinh Thuy Dieu Binh, Production Manager of the company shared: “The company has allocated masks and vitamin C to employees to increase resistance, then measured body temperature, guiding out workmates to wash hands properly. At the same time, tools such as alcohol sprayers, hygiene, labor protection are fully prepared. The company facilitates for the employees that well, I personally feel very secured. ”
Westfood flexibly responds to the pandemic Covid 19 – Quote from Can Tho City News
In 2019, Westfood exports to 150 countries, reaching a turnover of over VND 270 billion. In early 2020, when the Covid 19 epidemic appeared in Vietnam, the number of workers decreased by more than 10%. Facing the increasingly unpredictable situation of the pandemic, to maintain production and business activities, Westfood Board of Directors decided to invest in automatic weighing and packaging machines for IQF frozen products of over VND 9 billion, capacity reaching 3600 products / hour, and investing more than 12 billion lines to pack 200g and 120g fruit plastic cups with a capacity of 5400 cups /hour.
New technologies can both solve the labor shortage and effectively handle microorganisms, contributing to improving product quality. In addition, packaging products have also been restructured from large to small categories for the retail market so that online sales channels are easy to serve directly to consumers. Thanks to that, the partners continued to sign with Westfood, Q1 sales reached 73.5 billion, boosted up 11% compared to the same period last year. Currently, some countries around the world have declared a state of emergency and blockage to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic, for that reason, the purchasing & trade capacity are being narrowed. This circumstance causes great difficulties for Vietnam’s export enterprises in European and American markets. However, this is also a test for Westfood to be more active, flexible, creative, be able to overcome challenges, be more stable, bringing Westfood to proceeding towards the goal of becoming the largest fruit production and export company in Vietnam, meeting the international standards, being a model to build a reliable image of Vietnamese agricultural products in the international market.
