Mondelēz International empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world with employees based in 48 countries and with 2020 net revenues of more than $10 billion MDLZ is leading the future of snacking with iconic global and local brands such as OREO belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk Toblerone and Cote d’Or chocolate; Philadelphia cream cheese and Halls candies Find out more on who we are and join us to create the future of snacking Biggest meal plant of Mondelēz International Worldwide placed in the heart of Lower Saxony we are one of the biggest employers in the region of Heidekreis: our Mondelēz International plant is located in Bad Fallingbostel for more than sixty years (founded in 1957) Ever since our employees are the basis of our success That is why we not only work on constantly developing our products We also put an emphasis on vocational training and training and development of all our employees Every year we offer apprenticeships in five different fields we strongly care about our working environment we offer healthy dishes in our canteen and other benefits Our product portfolio consists of Philadelphia and Miracle-Whip At the pilot plant from Research and Development we constantly develop our strong brands even further Milka production plant in the heart of Alps Our Milka chocolate plant's history dates back to 1887 and currently it employs over 300 people Bludenz site is the third biggest chocolate factory of Mondelēz International and it produces the chocolate mass for the chocolate manufacturing straight from raw cocoa beans We produce around 1 million tablets every day and our main product are Milka chocolate tablets Other famous brands we produce in Bludenz are Cadbury Marabou und Lacta and we proudly export them to about 30 countries all over the world It's almost 40 years now we have been manufacturing crispy snacks in Donauwörth in the North Swabia region in Germany Our crispy snacks are destined only for export and famous especially in Italy as "Fonzies" and in France under the "Croustilles" brand our high-quality standards and amazing team Milka plant – Lörrach’s best side and home of Milka tablets founded the first chocolate factory outside Switzerland in Lörrach In 1901 Milka was born and the very first Milka chocolate bar was produced in Lörrach in the iconic purple package In 1972 the Milka cow becomes the testimonial and therewith the trademark of Milka chocolate Today the Milka plant in Lörrach is the biggest chocolate manufacturing unit within Mondelēz International in Europe 500 employees the "tenderest temptation" and export it to more than 50 countries worldwide Our employees are thereby our most important ingredient In our head office you can find career opportunities in areas such as: Sales; Marketing; Customer Service & Logistics; Supply Chain Management; Procurement; Finance; Business Services; Information Technology Solutions; Strategy Insights & Analytics; Corporate & Government Affairs and Human Resources In Central Europe we support 4 category teams: in Wroclaw (Poland) Chocolate RDQ core functions include Product Development Nutritional Communication and Analytical Services Development & Quality Meals Center of Excellence in Munich and create the future of meals category (Cheese and Dressings) We also have the R&D site located in Loerrach In our Vienna office you can find career opportunities in areas such as: Sales; Marketing; Consumer Services & Logistics; Finance; Strategy Mondelez said the expansion project will create 30 jobs Snacking and confectionery major Mondelez International is investing in a German plant to boost production of Philadelphia cream cheese spreads and Miracel Whip mayonnaise amid an increase in consumer demand The US-based business is ploughing EUR12m (US$14m) into its factory in Bad Fallingbostel located in the north-west state of Lower Saxony considered as one of Mondelez’s largest facilities in Europe The plant produces more than 250 items for the European market – around 40% of which are sold into Germany – and also for destinations in the Middle East and Africa Mondelez added the expansion project will create around 30 jobs as it seeks to meet the increased demand for its Philadelphia and Miracel Whip brands as more people eat at home due to the restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic The plant currently employs about 600 staff “Our popular brands like Philadelphia or Miracel Whip play an important role in the lives of our consumers That is why we are very pleased about the investment in expanding our production capacity and in sustainability projects,” Kerstin Picker-Münch the director at the plant in Bad Fallingbostel Just Food has approached Mondelez for more details on the sustainability agenda which it described as efforts to “optimise the energy supply” and for further insight into the production capacity increase what was then Kraft Foods spun off its North America grocery business to become Kraft Foods Group while the snacks part of the business became Mondelez International Heinz merged with Kraft Foods to create Kraft Heinz Don’t let policy changes catch you off guard Stay proactive with real-time data and expert analysis Kraft Heinz owns the Philadelphia brand in the US while Mondelez has the rights to market the product in Europe is a German version of the Miracle Whip mayonnaise brand sold by Kraft Heinz in North America Nominations are now open for the prestigious Just Food Excellence Awards - one of the industry's most recognised programmes celebrating innovation This is your chance to showcase your achievements Don't miss the opportunity to be honoured among the best - submit your nomination today Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network Poet Andrew Motion talked to returning Desert Rats about their experiences in Afghanistan for a series of collaborative poems the soldiers and a unique portrait of war for these timesThis article is more than 10 years oldPoet Andrew Motion talked to returning Desert Rats about their experiences in Afghanistan for a series of collaborative poems Of the many thousands of troops who passed through Camp Bastion On Sunday, Remembrance Day, veterans of Britain’s fourth Afghan war, a conflict that according to a BBC poll 68% of Britons consider to have been “not worthwhile” stiffen to attention at the sound of the Last Post and remember the dead these soldiers will spend a lifetime answering questions about their service in this foreign field What is it like to survive combat and return home What does it mean to put yourself in harm’s way serving Queen and country Is fighting the Taliban different from fighting the Kaiser These are among the issues that the former poet laureate, Andrew Motion recently explored with some contemporary British soldiers serving with the 7th Armoured Brigade the renowned military unit known as the Desert Rats these soldiers have been coming home to their base in Germany throughout 2014 leaving the purple-brown landscape of Afghanistan for the green grass of Europe and Motion has been turning their memories into free verse Motion found an experience of ageless meaning “Although I was only with them for a few days it was extraordinarily intense and moving,” he told the Observer “Partly because the guys themselves were so impressive And partly because I could (figuratively speaking) hear my father moving about in the basement.” lives in the shadow of the second world war still coming to terms with the wartime career of his father who landed at Gold Beach on D-Day as a 20-year-old tank commander with the Essex Yeomanry but Captain Motion survived to fight his way through France and Germany until he found himself outside the gates of Belsen one of the first to witness the horrific aftermath of the Holocaust the Desert Rats’ base at Bad Fallingbostel is scarcely 5km from Belsen Motion confesses he is obsessed by his father’s war “All my early memories of him are in uniform,” he says “I remember him talking about the smell of Belsen.” For the poet Motion’s experience defined “what it meant to be a man/boy Now he has translated his visit to the base into a sequence of poems The mission has also provided a rare insight into the cost of the military occupation of Afghanistan since 2001 “They’re relieved to be safely back and bloody pleased to be alive Every one of them knew someone who was killed or blown up by an IED [improvised explosive device] Suicide bombers and IEDs were the biggest threats to their safety.” “the worst memories were of seeing children suffer and of other innocent locals who got in the way and of course of seeing allied troops injured or killed” In one poem he refers to “a shower of Afghan fingers” a good example of something he says he found quite often among the troops – the instinct to make something horrible into a black joke Soldiering is timeless and Motion’s response treads across scarred ground: the futility of war; the majesty of the battlefield; the preciousness of everyday life; the relief of taking a swim after combat in temperatures of 95F in full body armour; the urge to bear witness; and the eternal solace of comradeship Andrew Motion Photograph: Karen Robinson/for the ObserverMotion reports that he did not find “you find that stiff upper lip has stiffened a good deal You don’t want a lot of mincing poets going over the top.” he was conscious “of quite a lot of stuff going unsaid They don’t really have the language to deal with the bad stuff I detected a strong intimation of repressed sorrow.” The regimental padre the men of 7th Armoured Brigade are fighters Motion again: “Monty [General Montgomery] himself wasn’t mentioned but they were a band of brothers all right When they reminisced about being in action there was no doubt they were fighting first and foremost for one another.” were “all pretty clear about the history of their presence in Helmand” They knew that “the wheel has turned here many times before” the retreat to base camp at Bad Fallingbostel was “not a defeat” “a widespread view that we were better at it [occupying Afghanistan] than the Russians” Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats He admits that his views have changed with age “All my interest in and respect for the army something to do with my changing feelings for my father thanks to a greater understanding of how the army had shaped him.” he was pleased to find that in all his encounters “regardless of age and background everyone knew about Sassoon and Wilfred Owen and had great admiration for them because they felt spoken-for by their poems.” he wrestled with worries about “combat-voyeurism” and decided he would listen to their witness and eliminate himself from the lines as much as possible I wanted to write poetry in which my own ego hardly featured.” Possibly the most moving poem in “Coming Home” is The Gardener Margaret Ivison lost her son Lieutenant Mark Ivison to a sniper in 2003 What, finally, does he take away from his brush with life on the front line? “As a poet,” he reports, “it made me feel an unusual degree of responsibility to my subject – the pity of war, as Owen has it. As a Brit, it left me still wondering about the rights and wrongs of being there in the first place, but absolutely convinced that the soldiers themselves had done an amazingly good job in extremely difficult circumstances. “And finally, as a man, it made me ask the questions I’ve felt as a shaping force all my life: questions about bravery, about selflessness, about capability, about the life of action as opposed to the life of thought. In the process, I think it brought to a kind of crisis in me lots of feelings I’ve always had about being the son of a soldier, but one who’s had the great good fortune to live in peace.” Coming Home, by Andrew Motion, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 4.30pm on Remembrance Sunday. You wonder how they miss you to be honest, throwing stuff over the walls. But they do miss you most of the time. One of my mates, he got hit, though, I say hit, by a shower of Afghan fingers. Suicide bomber, in the road outside. Normally the alarm gets you first but even then you’ll be wow, wow, something is real… Surreal if I’m honest with you. Surreal when I’m back at home. In subway, for instance. Cucumbers. Tomatoes. You think: Get it done, so everyone can go! Just come on! Then you leave and the road works are everywhere with nothing moving. And rain pattering down and clouds covering the stars. The war debts will come out then. You think: My weapon. Where is my weapon? And you look for it. You did everything with your weapon and urgh. You miss it. Nobody understands. You miss it. You went to the toilet with it. And the shower with it. You went running with it. You did everything with it. If you had a doss bag, you kept it close as you could, or in your doss bag sort of. It’s trust, you see, you have to trust your weapon. It’s individual. I’m Stephen North. Lance Bombardier Stephen North. Lance Bombardier North served in Afghanistan from September 2013 to March 2014. I’m an army brat. I was brought up to love the army. Basically I now do army intelligence work. I’m only 20. It was difficult for mum to start with. Take good care of yourself she said; keep your head down; be a grey man. But you can’t do that, no. You see it. You see it and you think it isn’t real, until you get smells and other things. I miss the gym, did I mention the gym? I did the Insanity Training Programme and I loved that. I followed that through. Lance Corporal Johnson was based in Kabul for six months. It was a long time ago but I was there, a combat medical technician. I saw children and IEDs which wasn’t nice at all. One boy: he had shorts and a dirty vest, he stood on a mine; he was conscious at first, screaming, and I thought None of the other kids cried, they’re quite sort of tough. At the time we were only issued one tourniquet each. Camp Phoenix was down the road and he went there. A double amputee. But we heard later he survived. Everything is hard. Everything they’ve got to do, everywhere they’ve got to go. Just hard. I used to imagine little towns in the country nobody knew. There would be people living there all the same. Sergeant Clarke, a combat medicial technician, served at Camp Suter, Kabul, in 2002, working in the hospital and as part of an ambulance crew. This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025. The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media. Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2002-2024. AFP text, photos, graphics and logos shall not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. AFP shall not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in any AFP content, or for any actions taken in consequence. 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You can change your cookie settings at any time Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports With 60% of the regiment deployed on operations in Afghanistan the Rear Operations Group in Bad Fallingbostel led by Officer Commanding Major Steve Walters formed up to pipe the last of the tanks out of the barracks that have been their home for nearly 30 years This is one of the first significant steps of the Army 2020 programme which sees the formation of the Adaptable and Reaction Forces The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards are currently serving as part of 7th Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats, but under reroling and a move to Leuchars in 2015, the regiment will become part of 51 (Scottish) Brigade The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Ben Cattermole, spoke to his soldiers in Kabul with fond sadness at the departure of the Challenger 2 main battle tank but also of the great opportunities that will come as they rerole to light cavalry The Challenger 2 main battle tank (left) is being replaced by the Jackal armoured vehicle [Picture: Corporal Mark Webster RLC Today marks a historic day in our 335-year history as our 3 remaining Challenger 2 tanks leave Wessex Barracks in Bad Fallingbostel Since our last deployment on Challenger 2 in 2008 the regiment has continued to conduct armoured training but has frequently reroled to fulfil counter-insurgency and training operations in Iraq and Afghanistan 75 years from when our predecessors first took to tank soldiering we will hand over our tanks and focus entirely on our future as Britain’s leading light cavalry regiment We will integrate fully with the new Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry and shall stand together as Scotland’s Cavalry The last of the Challenger 2 main battle tanks is piped out of Wessex Barracks in Bad Fallingbostel [Picture: Corporal Mark Webster RLC who has qualified as a Challenger 2 driver It’s a sad day for the regiment to be fair as the tanks have been around for a very long time but it’ll be good to go onto something new and a new role The regiment is very capable of doing that and so it will be good to step up and move on I’m looking forward to the challenge ahead and doing something new will keep the guys interested As part of the Rear Operations Group we will be doing instructors’ courses and commanders’ courses so that when the guys come back we can teach them Corporal Andy Stewart drove the first Jackal into Wessex Barracks to mark the regiment’s new start This is a big part of the regiment’s history; it’s a big part of my history When I came I started on tanks and I have been on operations in the Challenger 2 as well it’s quite exciting to be part of this whole new transition to working on a new platform (vehicle) and being here on the day when the regiment will move into the future I’ve had good times with the Jackal on operations and in my training It is one of the few vehicles in the Army that genuinely put a smile on my face when I got to drive it but it’s really quick and really effective It is a really reliable piece of kit and you can tell a lot of money and preparation has been put into it to make sure the vehicle is ready for us We’re moving on and everybody likes a challenge – that’s why you join the Army Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details Editor's note: Poet, Andrew Motion uses conversations with British soldiers as the basis for a series of new poems reflecting on what it is like for British soldiers to come home after their long and dangerous campaign in Afghanistan.  Hear Coming Home on Radio 4 on Sunday In April this year my producer Melissa FitzGerald and I visited the British Army camp at Bad Fallingbostel Our plan was to talk to members of the 7th Armoured Brigade – the Desert Rats - as they ended their final tour of duty in Afghanistan (‘Operation Herrick 19’) and to see what they felt about ‘coming home’ I would receive transcripts of our conversations and use them as the starting point for a series of new poems which I envisaged as a form of collaboration between me and their subjects When we landed at Hanover I still had only the vaguest idea how this would work and saw the remains of the old pine forest of northern Germany thicken around us I began to think this was going to be an even more intense time than I’d anticipated I realised we were following almost exactly in the steps my father took when his regiment came this way in the spring of 1945 as we came onto the camp itself and felt the peculiar power of all enclosed communities begin to assert itself I knew I was about to come face to face with extreme emotional states of one kind or another Extreme states that were very well-controlled of course – the army is very good at that – but probably all the more remarkable for being so well-drilled and rigorously reserved which existed at an equally strange distance from the world I usually inhabit In the course of our time there we talked to about ten people – junior and senior – as well as two medics and a padre (and to the mother of a soldier who had been killed in Helmand in 2009) Each in their own way had very powerful things to say but by and large the soldiers were very reluctant or actually unable to speak with much candour about the bad things they had seen yes; the beauty of the landscape yes; pleasure at being home (and also the frustrations of civilian life) yes Yet in each conversation I felt the pressure of these un-said things very strongly Every voice seemed to be haunted by difficult memories When I got back to England and began reading through the transcripts of these talks my first instinct was to look for a linguistic richness that conveyed these ideas Then I realised I was looking for the wrong thing The expressions that most interested me were in-between the sentences I had heard spoken In fact I can’t remember when I last spent a more enthralling few working days Everyone I spoke to had been profoundly changed by things they had seen and done in Afghanistan many hours kneeling together in the garden that grows over it now       the white cherry my daughter Elizabeth and I drove to Birmingham my mobile       there       on the dashboard we had worked out the times of the last plane Andrew Motion presents Coming Home on BBC Radio 4 Listen to Coming Home Behind the scenes at Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra from producers Stay updated with the latest posts from the blog Follow BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio 4 Extra on Twitter for programme highlights and interesting retweets.