Mitr Phol to hire 1,000 employees

President Krisda Monthien-vichienchai said the new staff would be at the executive and operation levels. Some of the current staff will be promoted to managers and executives, and the company has earmarked a budget of Bt140,000 for each promotion.

Mitr Phol now employs 5,129 staff. The company recently announced investment of Bt8 billion for the next year. About Bt3 billion will be spent on increasing capacity in the company's sugar plant in China and the rest on expanding capacity of its power-generation plant and a new ethanol plant.

"The business expansion forces us to seek new staff who are ready to work in domestic and foreign offices. The company has recently restructured its business for higher flexibility, and our local staff will be promoted in each business unit abroad," said Krisda.

The group has a total sugar-production capacity of 2.5 million tonnes a year, or 5 per cent of total regional capacity. Of this, 1.5 million tonnes come from its plants in Thailand and the rest from China.

The company is constructing a sugar plant in Laos under its Mitr Laos subsidiary, with a capacity to mill 5,000 tonnes of sugar cane per day. The plant is scheduled for completion at the end of the year.