Kuwait flour Co. has succeeded during coronavirus crisis -- CEO

By Mohammad Al-Mutairi KUWAIT, June 1 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Flour Mills and Bakeries Company has succeeded in securing consumers' needs for some of the basic food supplies since breakout of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the company Chief Executive Officer Metleg Al-Zayed said on Monday.
Al-Zayed said in a statement to KUNA total amount of bread production, since March 1 until May 30, amounted to 411.5 million loaves of bread.
Highest volume of daily output, during the coronavirus crisis, reached 7.2 million loaves and lowest production per day, during the same period, amounted to 1.9 million loaves.
Production in March stood at 169 million loaves, in April 130.5 million, and from May 1 until May 30, some 112 million loaves.
The company has succeeded during the extraordinary circumstances in "translating concept of food security into reality," he said, indicating that the experience during the crisis resulted in boosting confidence in the national company -- established in 1961. (end) md.rk