A DOLGELLAU food company which has increased its worforce by 24 in the last few weeks alone is promising a £1m investment over the next 12 months.

Nimbus Foods, which has a production factory on the Marian Mawr industrial estate, announced this week that it will be investing the cash to increase production.

The investment will increase the factory capacity by over 40 per cent.

Nimbus is one of Europe’s leading innovators and manufacturers of high quality decorations and products for the food industry, supplying multinational companies such as Nestlé, Mars and Kraft.

The company has already increased its workforce by more than 50 per cent – from 43 to 67 employees – in just the last few weeks and is expecting to create a significant number of further jobs over the next couple of years.

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