Pizza Hut, Crowne Plaza and Ikea buy meat and meat products from Angst

Angst, one of the biggest cold cuts producers with 48 million euros in turnover last year, delivers meat and meat products worth around 5 million euros to Howard Johnson, Crowne Plaza, Continental, Hilton hotels, City Grill, Pizza Hut and McDonald's restaurants and even to the restaurant in the Ikea furniture store.

"Around 10% of our turnover is generated by products that we deliver to hotels and restaurants," says Ştefan Pădure, 35, vice-president of Angst, controlled by the Minea family.

This segment of the Angst business is less visible, with company representatives mainly talking about production and retail. The Angst plant in Buftea makes toppings for Pizza Hut, delivers ham for McDonald's and sausages for Ikea's hot dogs. "We have also come with more exotic products, beef from Argentina or America, we have brought kangaroo meat for George Copos's hotels, but it didn't work," explains Ştefan Pădure, who has been working for Angst since 1997.

Angst's profits from sales to hotels and restaurants are not high, but production for this segment could rise by around 10 percent in the next period.