Gozitan start-up company produces typically local alcoholic products

Gozitan company Gozo Distillers Ltd, is a start-up company with an investment of €500,000 co-financed through European funds, producing various typically Gozitan alcoholic products.

Minister for Gozo Clint Camilleri, together with Parliamentary Secretary for European Funds Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi paid a visit to the company, where the Gozo Minister said that an investment like this leaves a positive impact not just on the company, but also on the employees, as it increases employability, resulting in more work in Gozo for Gozitans.

Parliamentary Secretary Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi sustained that the success of this company is proof of the benefits brought about by European funds. “Through these incentives they will be able to continue to distribute wealth in our country.”

The director of the company said that this start-up wouldn’t have been possible if there wasn’t any financial aid through European funds, and was “a stepping-stone for them to reach their long term objective, that of distilling alcohol.”

The company explained that this investment led to the acquisition of equipment for fermentation, distillation, bottling and ageing equipment, in order to create a production and packaging line to distillate alcoholic products.

Gozo Distillers said that it will support locals by purchasing raw materials from local agents in order to produce its own products.

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