Nestlé in Ukraine intends to employ and train 630 people over the next 2024-2025 as part of the Nestlé Needs YOUth program for young people, the company’s press service reported.

According to the report, Nestlé intends to employ 320 people under the age of 30, and another 310 people will be involved in internships.

“In Ukraine, we continue to develop the Nestlé Needs YOUth program, which promotes leadership development, provides career opportunities for young Ukrainians and helps them get their first job,” said Alessandro Zanelli, CEO of Nestlé in Ukraine and South Eastern Europe.

He recalled that at the beginning of 2023, Nestlé in Ukraine announced an investment of $42 million in the construction of a new factory in Volyn region.

“Our goal is to create a food hub in Volyn region, develop infrastructure and a network of suppliers, which will create additional opportunities and new jobs,” explained the CEO of Nestlé in Ukraine.

According to him, since the beginning of 2023, as part of Nestlé Needs YOUth, the Ukrainian representative office of Nestlé has already hired more than 80 employees under the age of 30.

In addition, the Nestlé business service center in Lviv, which employs 1,700 people, mostly young people, continued to accept workers during the first months of the full-scale war. In total, since the beginning of the full-scale war, Nestlé in Ukraine has employed more than 500 people.

In Ukraine, the Nestlé Needs YOUth program started in 2013 in Lviv, where the Lviv Nestlé factory and the international center for providing business services Nestlé Business Service Lviv already operated. Over the previous 10 years of the Nestlé Needs YOUth initiative to develop career opportunities for young people, the company in Ukraine hired more than 4,800 people under 30 years of age, and about 1,900 students completed internships at the company.