Production & Quality
Since 2012, the company has been operating in a new, modern and world class production factory that meets the highest modern requirements related to the quality, safety and ergonomics of the work environment. The production building in 2012 was nominated and won the awards “Investor of the Year” and “Building of the Year”. PRESTIGE pursues an active investment policy to build its strong brands, develop innovations, and expand its manufacturing facilities.
The company has successfully implemented and operates several international standards. Since 2009 the organization has been certified in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 22 000. In 2014 IFS Food was implemented with an exceptionally high result – 99.31% coverage of the requirements of the clauses of this standard. The application of all international standards is audited and monitored by Lloyd`s Register, a world leader in independent assessments, including certification, validation, verification and training in a wide range of standards and schemes, with recognition from more than 50 accreditation bodies.
With regard to existing products – the company has separate departments for quality assurance and control, which monitor the constant fulfillment of the requirements laid down in the product specifications. We have several own in house state-of-the-art laboratories for physico-chemical, organoleptic and microbiological analyzes, which ensure continuous control of the quality of the raw materials, packaging materials, manufactured semi-finished and finished products. All parameters for hygiene and food safety are also monitored. Quality is of utmost importance for PRESTIGE and that is why every 24 hours our quality department performs more than 800 different tests.
PRESTIGE conducts detailed marketing studies of market trends, participates in international exhibitions all around the world and constantly keeps an eye on all kind of innovations –product, packaging, marketing, related to process and etc. All ideas for new products have been thoroughly researched and implemented in symbiotic interaction between highly qualified marketing and R&D professionals. Each new product goes through certain phases of development, including the study of consumer expectations, selection of high quality raw materials, cost analysis and considering the need of production equipment, appropriate packaging design, etc.
The requirements of all the standards are implemented in the form of an integrated management system. The fulfillment of these requirements helps the successful management of all activities in PRESTIGE and ensures:
- Client satisfaction
- Leadership
- Management’s responsibility
- Employee commitment and motivation
- Process approach
- Striving for continuous improvement
- Communication and relationships management inside and outside the organization
- Risk Assessment
- Prevention
- Innovation
- Quality and safety management
- Achieving the goals properly and rationally
- Product quality and safety
- Supply chain management
- Production management
- Warehouse management
The strict control and application of the standards’ requirements ensures the constantly high quality and excellent taste of PRESTIGE’s products.
