www.smithfield.ro • www.smithfieldferme.ro • www.agroalim.ro

No. 1March 2011

20 pages

n Editorial: “Together, we shall stay the best!” n Record crops with organic fertilizers n Profile: Oana Florescu, Purchasing Manager Agroalim n Tournament of the Brave Butchers n The youngest of us

„ We find ourselves at the dawns of a new stage: that of development building

– an absolute and harmonious development, based on valuable experiences gathered so far.

„ Smithfield Romania is not just a company, but it is also a big

family and a success story.“

Bogdan Mihail CEO Smithfield România:

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W e are the largest local pork producer, the largest inves-tor in the Romanian agricul-

ture and we are proud of the quality of our products, manufactured from domestic pork, coming from pigs grown in Romania, with Romanian feeds. We are proud of our predeces-sors, those who made Comtim brand into a synonym of quality and taste, and we want to reposition this tradi-tional brand, so much loved by the inhabitants of the Western part of the country – and not only – to its right-ful place: a national, strong brand val-ued by everybody and a potential ex-port brand on the European Union’s common market.

It is time for performance. The fu-ture of the meat industry is heading towards an integrated concept, to-wards vertical integration, from farm to fork, where the key advantage lies with the consumer, due to the guar-antee of the value added product. Smithfield’s integrated business model will ensure a good competitive posi-tion, while the resumption of exports would mean new opportunities for

„Together, we shall stay the best!“

Dear friends,

I have now the extraordinary opportunity to address all of you who are part of the big Smithfield family in Romania – both my old col-leagues from Smithfield Ferme, and my new colleagues from Smith-field Prod and Agroalim. This year, we are opening a new chapter of our journey together, more powerful and more united, with the cer-tainty of having stood up against the storms of a very riotous local and global business environment, and found ourselves, at the end of these trials, victorious and confident about our further success.

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development and diversification of the product range. We find ourselves at the dawns of a new stage: that of development building – an absolute and harmonious development, based on valuable experiences gathered so far, on our quality people, on very performing safety and management systems implemented over the years – including the ISO 22 000 food safety certification obtained towards the end of last year.

We are and we want to be the first in everything we do. Smithfield Ro-mania is not just a company, but it is also a big family and a success story –

whether in business, in the care for the environment and for the communities where we live, or in the care for our children and their education.

“Be one of us!”, “Back to school”, “Your World! Clean!”, “Helping Hun-gry Homes”, “Earth Day”, “Water Monitoring Day”, and many others – are programs developed by Smith-field in which many of you have vol-unteered in order to make a change, to make a difference. This is why, to-gether, I am certain that we shall stay the best!

Bogdan MihailCEO Smithfield Romania

nin the second half of this year, we want to launch a portal of

agroalim community to work as a communication bridge between us all.

„ With attention, work and perseverance, any difficult situation can be solved”.

Oana Florescu Purchasing Manager – Agroalim:

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health and Safety

Pollutant-free working environment

One of Smithfield’s values and major concerns is to provide a safe and healthy working environment for our employees. it is therefore critical to ensure health and safety and to make continuous invest-ments in this field.

The most recent analyses on physi-cal (noise) and chemical pollutants (ammonia and dust) conducted by our colleagues from Smithfield Ferme, in collaboration with Timis Public Health Directorate, at the farms from Parta and Padureni and at Padureni Feedmill, fall within this effort. These measurements are part of an ongoing program for the monitoring of work conditions and pollutants and are pe-riodically conducted by Smithfield’s teams of specialists, independently as well as in collaboration with central and local regulators.

Following the analyses conducted in Parta and Padureni farm, it was established that the level of ammo-nia and vegetal dust is below the maximum allowed values. Parta and Padureni are two of Smithfield’s old farms modernized, which were con-sidered representative in terms of their headcounts. The analyses conducted at Padureni Feedmill recommended the taking of additional collective and individual protection measures regarding phonic pollutants (noise), measures which were implemented immediately, thus ensuring the health and safety of Smithfield employees.

As Smithfield’s management is permanently concerned with ensur-ing an optimum and non-polluting working environment, we would like to invite you to send your sugges-tions and observations regarding health and safety at the following e-mail address: Neboisa.Giurici@smithfieldferme.ro

Editors:Andrada Calancea, Iulia Moțiu, Rosana Nedeciu

Editorial team:Cristina Bodea, Sorin Lazăr, Mircea Bîtcă, Ovidiu Țimbota

Photo:Mugurel Prodan, Paul Crîngulescu

Editorial consultant:PRAIS Corporate Communications

Editorial Office:Smithfield Ferme, 7-9 Cetatii Blvd.

Phone: 0256 27 88 02; Fax: 0256 490 614andrada.calancea@smithfieldferme.ro

www.smithfieldferme.ro

“Smithfield Mosaic” is a publication by PRAIS Corporate Communications for Smithfield Romania. The texts or images co ntained in this publication

shall not be reproduced without the approval of Smithfield Romania.© 2010 all rights reserved

M y first task when I started work-ing for Agroalim seven years ago, as an Import Assistant, was

to record all the company’s import opera-tions. I want to thank my colleague Marina Ionel for the help, patience and detailed ex-planations she gave me then. I arrived with a solid theoretical base (I was a university assistant within the Faculty of International Economic Relations - ASE) but I quickly found out that the business today means fast reaction speed, a great deal of expe-rience and a lot of work.

I believe that the entire activity of the company begins here, within the Pur-chasing Department. Our role is not only to order the merchandise, but also to iden-tify business opportunities. We work with strong partners and we take pride in the fact that we have the experience necessary to buy “anything and from anywhere”.

We are five within the Purchasing De-partment of Agroalim (Ioana, Marina, Madalina, Mihai and Oana) and our role is to make sure that our sales colleagues have something to sell every day. Every-body starts with the beginning (the records I talked about above), as it is essential that the products are understood in details, as well as the types of operations conducted with each supplier.

One essential aspect of our activity is the quality of the products purchased. Buying

is easy, while the price is only the tenth part (not always the most important one) of a purchasing agreement. However, buying quality products, for good prices, in due time and which also sell well, is totally different. This is what we try to do on a daily basis. It is not easy, (we have a saying that: “We haven’t seen everything yet and many things can still happen”), but with attention, work and perseverance, any dif-ficult situation can be solved.

I have talked about one of the two halves of my life. The other half, at least as equal-ly important, is my family. I have two boys (Mihnea, 7 and half years old, and Dani, 3 years old) who complete my life. There is nothing more beautiful than to arrive at home after a day of work and be welcomed cheerfully and highly energetically by two goblins who scream, “Mommy, it’s so good to have you home!”, and then you forget about tiredness and, after you gather the toys spread around the entire house, you prepare dinner for them and make some time to be with them.

In the little spare time I still have, I like reading (Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa – as well as works by impor-tant economists). I was born in Brasov so I have been skiing since I was little, man-aging to create so far (with the help of my father) two skiers – my husband and elder son – while the youngest one follows.

Oana Florescu,Purchasing Manager Agroalim:

„Our role is to identify new business opportunities”

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A t the end of his visit, Am-bassador Gitenstein joined Smithfield’s team of volun-

teers in their planting campaign of 50 trees on the land in front of Vinga Feedmill, part of Smithfield’s social responsibility and environmental protection program. Within this campaign, since the beginning of this program, over 15,000 trees have been planted in various locations from Ti-mis and Arad County.

“I am very proud and impressed to see what Smithfield Ferme has achieved at Vinga. It is an impressive example of US expertise and technol-ogy, implemented by a local team to the benefit of the company, of the community and of the Romanian farmers. Investments like that made by Smithfield are key to increasing value added in the Romanian agri-culture”, said Ambassador Gitenstein.

“Smithfield Romania is not only one of the biggest foreign invest-ments in our country, it is also a successful example of the coopera-tion between Romanian and US professionals in the agricultural, animal husbandry and food field, a cooperation which developed a business in compliance with the highest international standards, in the field of food safety and envi-ronment, as well as in the business environment”, declared Bogdan Mi-hail, CEO of Smithfield Romania.

“Smithfield has become part of the communities where we operate, valorizing and supporting the cul-ture, traditions and hopes of the in-habitants of the Western part of the country. We will further invest in the prosperity and economic security of this region, through our support pro-grams for the local farmers, as well

as our social responsibility and cul-tural development programs”, Mi-hail concluded.

Vinga Feedmill is unique in Roma-nia, in terms of equipment and tech-nical performances, among the most modern ones in Europe and across the world, the technology used for this project being also a first for Eu-rope – in terms of how the construc-tion was made.

The construction of Vinga Feed-mill began in December 2006, and was inaugurated 18 months later, being one of the biggest Greenfield investments in Romania. The con-struction at Vinga covers 20 ha of land, 350,000 hours of work being necessary to complete the project. Vinga Feedmill has a weekly pro-duction capacity of 8,000 tons of pig feeds, based on own recipes.

US ambassador visiting Vinga Feedmill

At the end of November

last year, the US Ambas-

sador to Romania, HE Mr.

Mark Gitenstein visited

Vinga Feedmill, situated in

Arad County, a 40-million-

dollar Greenfield invest-

ment of Smithfield Ferme.

nVinga Feedmill is unique in Romania, in terms of equipment and technical

performances, among the most modern ones in Europe and across the world.

„ Investments such as that made by Smithfield are key to increasing

value added in the Romanian agriculture.”

Mark Gitenstein US Ambassador:

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Mark Gitenstein (left), Bogdan Mihail (right)

„ Smithfield Prod obtained the ISO 14001:2004 certificate in 2009 –

followed in 2010 by a supervisory audit conducted with positive results”.

nSmithfield Ferme has successful-ly implemented the Food Safety

Management System and obtained the iSO 22000:2005 certificate.

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Smithfield Ferme obtained the Food Safety Management System Certification

a t the end of last year, Smithfield Ferme successfully implemented

the Food Safety Management System and obtained the iSO 22000:2005 Cer-tificate, following the audit and certifi-cation by TUV austria Romania.

By implementing the requirements of iSO 22000 standard we can say that, in terms of food safety, we meet all the requirements to provide safe products for the consumer’s health, up to the last stage of swine production.

The implementation of iSO 22000:2005 standard provides the company with an organizational framework in order to identify, assess and control any po-tential food safety hazard by specific operation and control procedures.

With a view to continuously improv-ing the production processes, once the implementation and certification of the Food Safety Management System was achieved according to iSO 22000, a de-tailed analysis of the production process was also conducted in every farm and feedmills by the Food Safety Team. Fol-lowing this analysis, a number of checks and monitoring actions were introduced throughout and at the end of the produc-tion process, and forms were developed to register the results of these checks.

at the end of 2010… Smithfield Ferme & Smithfield Prod:

First in the Top Companies operating in Timis CountyAt the end of last year, in the month of October, Smithfield Ferme and Smithfield Prod were awarded two important honors from Timis Cham-ber of Commerce and Agriculture: 1st prize for remarkable economic results in the field of Agriculture and animal husbandry, and respectively in the field of Meat Processing Industry, in the “Large Enterprises” category.

n Article by Mircea Bitca – project coordinator for the implementation of ISO 9001, 14001, 18001 and 22000

The implementation and certification of this Food Safety system, as well as the other ones already implemented and certified, in terms of Quality, Environ-ment, Occupational Health and Safety, does not mean that our effort to main-tain and improve them will stop here. A program of internal audits and checks of the working points will be developed in the following period to collect as much information as possible in order to raise awareness of the employees and create a professional, organized and perform-ing working environment.

One of the benefits of the audits and checks is that they support the employ-ees, as information is collected about the actual functioning of the processes on site. This is why the involvement of all the employees is required and desir-able, as it can only lead to improving the performances of the company and, im-plicitly, of each and every one of us.

SMITHFIELD PROD: Environmental audit – ISO 14001:2004 also in 2010Smithfield Prod obtained the ISO

14001:2004 certificate in 2009 – fol-lowed in 2010 by a supervisory audit conducted with positive results. Our goal for 2011 is to conduct our activ-ity so as to maintain the certification obtained in 2009 and be 100% com-pliant 100% of the time. The imple-mentation and certification of an en-vironmental management system is a

proof of the company’s commitment to complying with the legal environ-mental requirements.

l These awards acknowledge the results of the two companies within our group in 2009 and represent the most important honors that Timis Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture awards every year.

l Top Companies is a ranking of the eco-nomic operators which reported excep-tional economic results, while also hon-oring all their duties to the local budget and to the State, being a barometer of a county’s economic “health”.

FArm oF the monthBirda & ParTa

FarMSFor Best SOW and WTF

Performances

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S mithfield Prod launched the project named “Competency, Adaptability, Re-

sponsibility, Efficiency through Occupation-al Health and Safety” (CaRE), co-financed by the European Social Fund under the Sectoral Operational Program human Re-sources Development 2007-2013 – “Invest in people”, priority axis 3 “Increase of work-ers’ and enterprises’ adaptability”, major area of intervention 3.2. “Training and sup-port for enterprises and employees for the promotion of adaptability”.

The project aims at ensuring occupational health and safety to the benefit of more than 390 employees within Smithfield Prod’s pro-duction department and targets the imple-mentation of a sustainable organizational culture for the employees’ health and safety, by means of a complex training and information program to prevent occu-pational risks.

The project named “Competency, Adaptability, Responsibil-ity, Efficiency through Occupational Health and Safety” is imple-mented in a share of 98% with non-reimbursable financial as-sistance under SOPHRD 2007-2013.

Smithfield Prod project aims at permanently identifying and monitoring the occupational risks of the employees, mitigating risk and injur-ing factors, improving the employees’ aware-ness and training level in the field of occupa-tional health and safety and increasing their adaptability to the EU requirements.

The project activities in the field of occupa-tional health and safety and its operational struc-tures will continue even after its completion by the establishment of an internal medical unit, aimed at further developing the company’s on-going occupational health and safety activities.

Smithfield Prod is the largest slaughterhouse in Romania with a production capacity of 600 capita per hour, being situated on the location of former Comtim, in Timis County. Smithfield

Prod’s values are food safety, environmental responsibility, un-derstanding of the local specificity and support for the local community where it operates, continuous development of the technologies and creation of a pleasant working environment for the employees. Smithfield Prod is a company certified in accordance with ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System and ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management System.

Sfaturi pentru asigurarea securității și sănătății în muncă:

Ca angajat al companiei Smithfield Prod avem dreptul și obligația de a ne proteja sănătatea și securitatea la locul de muncă, atât a noastră cât și a celorlalți colegi!

Pentru aceasta este necesar: • Să ne prezentăm la analizele medicale periodice, la data programată. • Să respectăm recomandările medicului. • Să ne protejam sănătatea la locul de muncă. • Să purtăm corect echipamentul individual de protecție acordat. • Să respectăm regulile de igienă individuală, să avem un comportament adecvat care să nu pună în pericol securitatea și sănătatea noastră și a celor din jurul nostru.

Ai întrebări legate de sănătatea și securitatea ta la locul de muncă?

Vino la Cabinetul de Securitate și Sănătate în Muncă din incinta abatorului Smithfield Prod!

Te așteptăm cu răspunsuri, informații și echipamente de protecție specifice activității tale pentru a te simți oricând în siguranță.Găsim împreună soluții pentru sănătatea și securitatea noastră!

De ce trebuie să mă prezintla analizele medicale periodice?

Pentru că noi toți, angajații din industria alimentară, suntem răspunzători de siguranța alimentelor care ies din mâinile noastre, pentru familiile noastre și pentru toți ceilalți consumatori finali!

Verificându-ne periodic starea de sănătate, vom putea identifica sau preveni orice tip de boală și vom putea lua măsuri în timp util pentru a putea duce o viață sănătoasă alături de cei dragi.

Când ar trebui să mergi la medic?Chiar dacă te simţi sănătos şi nu te doare nimic.

Când apar o serie de modificări în starea de sănătate legate de locul de muncă.

De două ori pe an beneficiezi gratuit de un consult medical oferit de serviciul de medicina muncii.

Ferește-te de:

• Bolile respiratorii cronice • Hipotermii și degerături • Pneumopatii • Slăbirea auzului

Protejându-te și purtând Echipamentul Individual de Protecție pe care îl primești gratuit!

Spală-te pe mâini ori de câte ori este nevoie!

The “Production Exchange Week” Program took place in the period 19-26 October 2010, with the participa-tion of 50 colleagues from the Finan-cial, IT, Human Resources, Purchasing, Legal, Public Relations, Sales, Security, Environment departments who have actually worked for 8 hours, shoulder to shoulder, with our more experi-

enced colleagues within the butcher-ing section of Smithfield Prod slaugh-terhouse, in the following jobs: bacon cutting, selection of pork rind, brisket cutting, collection of raw material, separation of brisket bones, evacua-tion of brisket, packaging. Benefiting from prior specialized trainings relat-ed to each job, as well as occupational health and safety, hygiene and emer-gency situations, the 50 colleagues made up 6 teams, choosing a repre-sentative name and a guiding slogan.

THE TEaMS wERE aS FOLLOwS:n Cheerful Butchers (“Headfirst”) – they managed to keep their cheerfulness and head on throughout the entire day. n Knife Spartans (“We cut everything”)

– were promoted as “Gladiators” and cut everything, according to the technological sheets. n The apprentices (“We came as apprentices and leave as masters”) – they were trained on the line and will prob-ably never feel as apprentices for the rest of their life, with us. n inglorious Bas-tards (“Touch and cut”) – they succeeded even without the help of Brad Pitt to pun-ish the stubborn pork rind pieces. n The Workers (“Cut well”) – they took on the proletarian roles and the slogan in power. n The 5-Star Team (“The best will win, meaning us”) – accustomed with comfort and self-esteem – proved to be quite good.Following this experience, we managed to better understand and see on-site what the challenges and satisfactions of working in a slaughterhouse are.

PRODUCTION EXCHANGE WEEK

Smithfield Prod implemented “CARE” project, a complex occupational health and safety program

n“CaRE” project aims at ensur-ing occupational health and

safety to the benefit of more than 390 employees within Smithfield Prod’s production department.

„ Colleagues from the Financial, IT, Human Resources, Purchasing, Legal, Public

Relations, Sales, Security, Environment departments have worked for 8 hours in the butchering section of Smithfield Prod slaughterhouse”.

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„ With this 3.5 milion USD Smithfield Prod investment, the pork achieves the

optimum parameters so as to be safely kept and subsequently consumed.“

nThis month, Smithfield Prod launched some new recipes: 11 assortments

of sausages and 7 assortments of highly seasoned forcemeat balls.

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FEBRUARy RECIPE:

COMTIM chop in the ovenProduct tasting

This month, Smithfield Prod launched some new recipes: 11 assortments of sausages and 7 assortments of highly seasoned forcemeat balls.

Smithfield Prod invested 3.5 mil. USD in technological upgrade

R apid refrigeration is a refrigera-tion method for foods, pork in

this case, at a low temperature, safe in terms of preventing bacterial pro-liferation.

With this investment, by transiting the carcasses in tunnels with temper-atures between -18 and –24 °C, for 90 minutes, the pork achieves the opti-mum parameters so as to be safely kept and subsequently consumed.

Rapid cooling of pork carcasses can also be useful to processors as an additional method to control the mi-crobial proliferation and, implicitly, the increase of food safety as regards basic pork products.

Smithfield Prod is the largest slaugh-terhouse in Romania, with a process-ing capacity of 600 heads per hour, be-ing located on the former COMTIM premises. Smithfield Prod values are

food safety, responsibility towards the environment, understanding of the lo-cal specificity and support for the local communities where it operates, con-tinuous development of the technolo-gies used and creation of a pleasant working environment for the employ-ees. Smithfield Prod is ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management system and ISO 22000: 2005 Food Safety Ma-nagement system certified.

Smithfield Prod has completed the technological upgrade works in the rapid refrigeration area of pork carcasses resulted from the slau-ghtering process. The investment amounted to USD 3.5 million, the new refrigeration area covering 755 m2. For almost 4 months, 7 contrac-ting companies have been involved in this project.

The current investment adds up to more than USD 67 million, amounts allocated by Smithfield Prod

over the last 5 years only for the modernizing of the production capacities of former COMTiM.

Contest of recipes A winner will be chosen every month, and the winning recipe will be posted on the Intranet and in the next issue of the newsletter.

• 2 pieces of COMTIM pork chop• 300g bacon• 150g cheese• 2 tomatoes,• 1l milk• salt, pepper, butter

The chops are kept in milk for one hour for ten-derness, dried, cut, coated with butter on the in-side, then salt and pepper are added according to taste. Sliced bacon is put on the inside, as well as sliced cheese, a slice of tomato and a slice of bell pepper. Salt and pepper is added according to taste. Cook in the oven for 45-50 min. Serve warm with rice and vegetables and mushrooms.

retete@smithfieldferme.roPLEaSE SEND YOUR RECIPES aT:

We are launching a contest of recipes for those of you who want to share the pleasure of cooking fresh pork.

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What does your activity as “Industrial Sales Coordinator – SE Region” within SFD Prod imply?

Our sales department has a strong and united team, under the careful supervi-sion of Mr. Emilio Becker, within which we complete each other so as to successfully cope with the unpredicted situations arising in the difficult process of selling. My activity as Industrial Sales Coordina-tor implies the following: establishing the marketing strategies, developing and maintaining the relationships with the customers; attracting new customers; collecting market information about the products and the activity of the competi-

interview with liviu Florea, Industrial Sales Coordinator – SE Region

„Every day isdifferent and does not imply a certain cliché”

W e know that the difference betwe-en a company and a success-

ful company is given by the quality of services. This is why we decided to segregate the operational and sales ac-tivities as of 2011, so as to enable a better focus on each of them. The sales force, which was activating on several distribution channels, is now 100% dedicated to each channel. Most of the Branch Managers have decided to return to their “first love” and become fully devoted to it, from the new positi-on of Area Sales Manager which means a relief of administrative and logistics responsibilities, but a wider coverage area and effort focusing on the favorite distribution channel. Meanwhile, in the new Business Unit Manager position,

the former Regional Managers are given nationwide coverage responsibilities on certain categories of essential products

for company profitability. Promotions to the Branch Manager positions occurred also in most branches.

For our colleagues with increased authority but who did not previously be-nefit from training, we will organize two training programs in February: an inter-nal one, provided by the Logistics, Finan-cial, Quality and HR departments, and an external one, on “Management Skills”, in collaboration with Dale Carnegie.

Thus, we begin 2011 with the deter-mination to take the company on profit and position Agroalim as leader among the successful distribution companies in Romania.

tion; conducting market survey studies; periodically analyzing the sales perfor-mances against what was planned.

What was your biggest professional achievement/challenge?

I can say there were many challenges, but the biggest of all was exceeding the limit of 1,200 tons sold per month, which I thought it was unachievable a long time ago.

How is a day of work for you?Every day is different, but begins with

a briefing regarding the production plan for the respective day, so as to be able to know whether the production is covered

by orders and, if it is not, what products we should focus on so as to sell them and not refrigerate them, which would mean losses for the company.

A usual sales day begins at 8 in the morning, by visiting certain customers – without whom an increase in the vol-ume of merchandise sold cannot hap-pen within the sales process.

Unpredicted problems arise every day in the sale of fresh pork and they put a strain on you and keep you in the boil – problems like refusal of merchandise on quality-related grounds, reduced validity dates, merchandise in excess of ordered quantities [this results from our desire to sell more]; merchandise which does not arrive in time to the customer for transportation reasons, sometimes even losses in the order made by the custom-ers; weighting differences; all these must be solved and require time and tens of phone calls a day.

How is Liviu Florea when he is not working?

I am a normal person, spending almost all my time with my family and particu-larly my little boy.

In the second half of this year, we want to launch a portal of Agroalim com-munity to work as a communication bridge between us all, regardless of our location across the country. As this is a process concerning us all, we need your pragmatism and creativity to cre-ate its contents. How can we make you visit first the Agroalim website, and only then, if you remember, Facebook? What information about your job and company would you like it to include? If we were to create a “spare time” section, what would you be interested in finding out? Would you participate in an online chess or backgammon championship? Would a forum help? And so on…We are looking forward to your sugges-tions at rosana.nedelciu@agroalim.ro. Don’t forget! It’s ok to go with “out of the box” ideas – innovation is one of Agroalim’s values!

Intranet AgroalimAGROALIM – A DYNAMIC TEAM

„ I am a normal person, spending almost all my time with my family

and particularly my little boy”.

Liviu Florea Industrial Sales Coordinator – SFD Prod:n

Thus, we begin 2011 with the determina-tion to take the company on profit and

position agroalim as leader among the suc-cessful distribution companies in Romania.

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nas of 2011, agroalim decided to segregate its operational and

sales activities, thus enabling a better focus on each of them.

„ Practicing this profession is not always easy, but it cannot be difficult either, if you

are passionate about your work”.

Claudiu Ivan Veterinarian – Bacova farm:

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How is a day of your life, as a veterinar-ian at BACOVA?

I have worked for the company for more than two years and as a farm vet-erinarian since December 2nd, 2008. Ev-ery day begins with setting the activities for the respective day on the two farm sectors (nursery and gestation). Later, throughout the day, depending on the situations and problems, I try to find a solution in the shortest time possible and with the best results. You are the veterinarian of one of the biggest Smithfield-owned farms. What does that mean to you?

The possibility to work in one of the biggest Smithfield-owned farms brings me first of all the satisfaction of practic-ing in the field chosen, while also en-abling a professional development.

How easy/difficult is it to be a veteri-narian?

Practicing this profession is not always easy, but it cannot be difficult either, if you are passionate about your work. The most frequent problems we face at the farm are the taking of the most ef-ficient decisions from a qualitative and economic point of view regarding the treatments to be followed.What measures should be taken so that the sector of activity would de-velop?

I think that investing in the continu-ous development of the farm staff will

interview withClaudiu ivan, Veterinarianat BACOVA Farm:

„Investment in continuousdevelopment always brings major benefits“

NaME: Ivan SURNaME: Claudiu-Ma-rian

aGE: 27

BaSiC PROFESSiON: Veterinarian

MaRiTal STaTUS: Single

EDUCaTiON:• 2001-2007: University of Agricultural

Sciences and Veterinarian Medicine of Banat, Timisoara, with Veterinarian Medicine as specialization;

• 1997-2001: “DR. IOAN SENCHEA” School Group, Fagaras with Veterinarian Operator as specialization

hOBBY: Columbophilia, cars, travels

always bring a major benefit to this sec-tor of activity and not only.

What was the most memorable mo-ment you lived in relation to your pro-fession/farm activity?

Throughout my two years of activity, I had many memorable moments, one of them being my recent appointment as a veterinarian for a second farm, which for me is a recognition of my work within the company.

What about the biggest challenge/achievement?

After graduating, getting a job in a farm with intensive animal growing sys-tem, of which I did not know much, was a great challenge for me and is currently my biggest professional achievement.

How do you manage to create an op-timum working environment for each and every employee?

I work with 3 employees, of which only one has specialized educational back-ground, while the other two have to learn the sanitary-veterinary maneuvers and techniques within the farm; and I have to admit that they are handling this quite well. In order to create an optimum working environment, I always set clear tasks and provide them with technical support in achieving these tasks. What kind of relationship do you have with the employees?

My relationship with all the employees is a professional one, but for any personal problem they face and which is reflected in their activity I am open to a discussion and I always try to support them.

What are the benefits of a BACOVA Farm employee?

Every employee within the farm has the opportunity to improve their knowl-edge and practices in their field of activ-ity, to work in a young and ambitious team with relationships based on effi-cient communication.

What are your hobbies? I enjoy travelling a lot and I grow pi-

geons in my spare time.

What are your plans for the future?In the future, I want to evolve in my

professional career as much as possible.

No. 1 – March 2011

nOne of Smithfield’s values and major concerns is to pro-

vide a safe and healthy working environment for our employees.

„ For me, performance starts with a lot of work, along with perseverance and

openness to everything new.

Goran Panici Manager, Production Department of Smithfield Ferme:

editorial

n Food Service National Sales Manager: Claudiu IlieşArea Sales Manager: Cosmin Andro-nescu (South), Radu Dumitriu (South West, promoted from the position of Agent Master), Iulian Istrate (North East) and Ovidiu Crişan (Central North).n RetailNational Sales Manager: Bogdan IvanovArea Sales Manager: Florin Burciu (South East), Radu Bonteanu (south West), Cipri-an Petrescu (North East, promoted from the position of Sales Supervisor) and Petru Mureşan (Central North).n IKa National Sales Manager: George DobrescuKey Account Executive: Flori Andries and Emil Bunescu.

n ComtimNational Sales Manager: Florin RabaArea Sales Manager: Gelu Minea (South), Alin Danciu (West), Vasile Pelin-Costachi (East).n Business Unit ManagementPastry, dairies and potatoes: Sorin TurianPoultry (chicken, turkey) and beef: Moni VieruFrozen vegetables and fruit and vege-table cans (additionally to the position of Marketing Manager): Ana PopaFish and fish specialties (additionally to the position of Purchasing Manager): Oana Florescun Branch ManagementBaia Mare: Adriana Chis, promoted from the position of Administrative Supervisor;Bacau: Gabriela Nebunelea, promoted from

the position of Administrative Supervisor;Cluj: Ovidiu Pintea, promoted from the position of Administrative and Logistics Supervisor;Iasi: Mihai Burghelea, promoted from the position of Sales Supervisor.In addition to the responsibilities held in Brăila and Piteşti branches, Adrian Vîlcu took over also the management of Con-stanţa branch.Buftea will be coordinated by the team made of Ştefan Barzaianu (warehouse), Ciprian Grosu (transport) and Laconia Itu (administrative).Timisoara will be coordinated by the team made of: Emil Isac (warehouse) and Mariana Târziu (administrative).Braşov remains a commercial office.

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„Performance is not only a word in the dictionary“

P erformance: a word we often hear lately, in all speeches. What I think was forgotten is that it

depends on us, on our work, perse-verance and trust for the performance to be more than a word: to become a reality.

I started in 2006 as a veterinarian in Pădureni farm. After acquiring direct experience in working with animals, I worked as an epidemiological doc-tor for two years at Ciacova farm and area epidemiological doctor as of the end of 2007, taking care of 15 farms, of which 2 are sow farms.

After 5 years of experience within SFD Ferme, when I attended many

specialization trainings and tried to always keep up to date with the latest research in the field, I am in charge of the production department of Smith-field farms as of November 2010.

For me, performance starts with a lot of work, along with perseverance and openness to everything new. Smithfield is the ideal place where professional development and career performance combine with job per-formance.

If you are ambitious, you want to continuously learn and you are not afraid of getting involved body and soul in everything that you do, every-thing is possible – and this is not only

a slogan! In addition, the different internal training programs to foster the professional development of the specialized staff within Smithfield Ferme are a real help and motivation for continuous performance.

In my professional activity, per-formance is often synonymous to ensuring the «bio-security» of our farms. It is a permanent concern for keeping the animals’ health, by con-tinuing to strictly comply with the bio-security plan, for healthy ani-mals, with performing genetics. The internal bio-security plan is in line with all the current Romanian and European Union regulations in the field of animal health, and is the key to maintaining the animals’ health.

As for the medium-term objectives of the production department – we want to improve our production in-dex, as well as the EFFICIENCY and profitability indexes. In a word: we want to be increasingly more per-forming!

Goran PaNiCiManager, Production Department of

Smithfield Ferme

nThe civic and ecological educational program “Your World? Clean!”

started within Smithfield companies in the school year 2009-2010.

nThe competition called “Tournament of the Brave Butchers”

aimed at awarding the best butcher employed with Smithfield Prod.

n The competition named “Tourna-ment of the Brave Butchers” aimed at awarding the best butcher employed with Smithfield Prod. The level of in-volvement in the competition was maximum, just like the emotions of the participating colleagues. Follow-ing a harsh jury decision, the 1st prize, consisting of a laptop, was awarded to Mr. Sandulescu Adrian, 2nd prize to Mr. Opris Nicolae, who received an au-

dio system and 3rd prize consisting of a mobile telephone to Mr. Lica Flavius.We congratulate and thank all the participants who proved that we can count on a true team of professionals.

n The party was held inside the new canteen and started with its inaugura-tion. We have every reason to believe that it was a successful one, but we also have some proofs in images.

On “Meat Industry Day”, at mid August last year, Smithfield Prod organized two events to the benefit of the non-administrative employees: a butch-ering contest and a barbecue party – own production.

TOURNAMENT OF THE BRAVE BUTCHERS

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Your world? CLEaN!The civic and ecological educational program Your World? Clean! started within Smithfield companies in the school year 2009-2010. The children of agroalim and Smithfield Prod employees could find out from the information materials about the environment and the impact that the human activity has on it, about selective waste collection and about what each and every one of us can do individually and together to take care of the environment

Competition of compositions and items made of recycled materials

Congratulations to our winners:

Agroalim:Mihăilescu Alex Andrei, 11 yo; Dan Ioana Antonia, 7 yo; Andronescu Mihnea, 7 yo; Gavrilă Alex Ionuţ, 13 yo; Gavrilă Antonia, 7 yo; Mureşan Darius, 15 yo; Mureşan Daria, 11 yo; Florescu Mihnea, 7 yo; Al Ali Leila, 12 yo; Stancu Diana Maria, 13 yo; Diaconu Vlad, 12 yo; Popovici Andreea, 9 yo

Smithfield Prod:Costea Adina Nicoleta, 11 yo; Ihring Ema, 8 yo; Gyurkovits Alexandru, 14 yo; Costolas Darius, 12 yo; Oana Michi, 9 yo; Andriescu Catalin, 8 yo; Chierean Nicoleta, 9 yo; Besleaga/Calin Iasmina, 10 yo; Ciherean Giyona, 5 yo; Stoiadinov Emanuel, 15 yo; Dogariu Elena, 13 yo; Ielchici Miroslav, 10 yo; Chifan Raluca, 9 yo; Dogariu Cristian, 12 yo; Besleaga/Calin Flavia, 9 yo; Marcon Florina, 10 yo; Costolas David, 11 yo; Nicoara Cosmin, 10 yo; Velciov Bianca Monica, 11 yo; Ianc Alexandru, 13 yo; Costea Cosmin Petru, 12 yo

a t Agroalim, Your World? Clean! is also the first social responsibil-ity program for the children of

the employees, being very well received by all those involved, whether kids or adults. The program is simple, inter-esting, playful and also consistent with Smithfield’s commitment to environ-mental protection, being adjusted so as to be implemented in every Agroalim branch. All the employees’ children aged between 7 and 13 years received a fold-er and an educational brochure on en-vironmental protection to read together with their parents. Then they were given a challenge: an invitation to the compe-tition: the children could write a compo-sition about the environment/environ-mental protection and/or make decora-tive items out of recycled materials as in-ventive as possible and… they won!

The items selected could then be ad-mired in Agroalim headquarters, as well as in the headquarters of Smithfield

Group companies, where similar com-petitions and exhibitions with the chil-dren’s creations were organized.

The program of information and de-velopment of responsible civic behaviors will also be continued this year, under the aegis of the national initiative Your World? Clean! initiated by PRAIS Foun-dation, with the support of the Ministry of Environment and of the School In-spectorate of the Municipality of Bucha-rest. This is why we are also launching an invitation to participate in the new edi-tion of the competition on items made of recycled materials Your World? Clean! 2011 with the works developed by our little artists – children of the employees of Smithfield Group. We are looking forward to receiving their creations at the headquarters of Smithfield Ferme, Smithfield Prod and Agroalim.

cristina.bodea@smithfield.roFOR aDDITIONaL INFORMaTION:

nin order to participate in this contest, it is enough for your

kids to want to draw the cutest/fun-niest piglets...

„ We want to encourage you to further send your creations,

as Smithfield Romania Piggy Mascot is not over yet!”

eMPlOYee iNVOlVeMeNT

The nicest piggy drawings!

Over the last months of last year, Smithfield Romania employees

were invited to participate in a mas-cot competition aiming at finding the most representative emblem for the company.

The participation was remarkable and we want to thank those who sent their works and proposals. We also want to encourage you to further send your “creations”, as Smithfield ROMa-Nia Piggy Mascot is not over yet!

W e also continue the series of competitions and artistic ac-

tivities for children with a new draw-ing competition, launched within Smithfield Group and intended for our little artists at home: The nicest piggy drawings competition!

In order to participate in this contest, it is enough for your kids to want to draw the cutest/funniest piglets – the drawings/paintings may be sent to the headquarters of each group company (Communication /or HR department), and the winners will be selected by a jury from Smithfield Ferme and pub-lished in our next newsletter, together with the kids’ works.

The grand prize of the competition consists of a complete painting set for one winner. The remaining drawings selected will be exhibited at Smith-

field Ferme headquarters, as well as at the headquarters of the Group com-panies.

We are looking forward to receiving the “artworks” of the little drawers and painters within Smithfield family.

Mascot competition

Competition for the children of Smithfield employees

Smithfield România Piggy Mascot

It is our pleasure to publish some of

our colleagues’ achievements which cheered us up,

while also making the choice of the winner

a not so easy task.

andrada.calancea@smithfieldferme.roFOR aDDITIONaL INFORMaTION:

andrada.calancea@smithfieldferme.roFOR aDDITIONaL INFORMaTION:

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nMeat produced during morning in the slaughterhouse is packed

and deliver in the shortest time lap to the COMTiM store.

„ Smithfield Prod fresh meat is a highest quality

standard product.

NeWS

Smithfield Prod meat is a very high quality standard product.n Smithfield Prod has been certified iSO 22 000/2005 for cutting, carving and selling pork meat.

n TUV austria Certificate confirms our slaughterhouse is observing one of the best, more prestigious food safety standards: the ISO 22000-2005.

n This certification has been obtai-ned following all TUV Austria Cert. audit and certification procedures, and is submitted to periodical su-pervising audits.

Did you know...?l Smithfield Prod is one of the lar-gest slaughterhouses in Europe, a market leader in pork slaughtering, not only due to its volumes produced and deliver to local market, but also due to its food safety and quality standards.

l Smithfield is one of the few Roma-nian producers delivering to the lo-cal market 100% „made in Romania“ pork meat.

l In average, Comtim outlet recei-ves fresh meat supplies twice a day.

l Meat produced during morning in the slaughterhouse is packed and deliver in the shortest time lap to the COMTIM store.

Why choosing Comtim meat products?

n In order to get this certification, one should prove the HACCP requi-rements implementation , as well as the ability to manage the whole pro-cess within the organization aiming to produce safe food products.

Our Comtim outlet store featu-res daily a complete range of fresh pork meat, observing the highest quality and food safety standards. Weekly, we propose our clients new tempting offers, which are firstly communicated to our sales personnel.

We permanently develop our product mix, trying new packa-ging solution in order to promptly respond to our clients most exi-gent expectation and needs.

Comtim outlet store, Timișoara

4 Polonă StreetTimiȘoara

Work HoUrS:Monday 8.00 - 18.00hTuesday/Friday 8.00 - 20.00hSaturday 8.00 - 14.00h

PROjecTs

Our colleagues from Smithfield Ferme participated last October, in the com-mune of Jimbolia, in the public harvest-ing of a reference lot of 10 hectares culti-vated with Pioneer hybrid corn and organically fertilized by Smithfield Ferme.

RECORD CROPS with ORGaNiC FERTilizERS

Smithfield Ferme:

T his is the third consecutive year when Smithfield Ferme orga-nizes this experiment, which

proves our constant concern for the promotion of modern agriculture. The benefits of organic fertilizers are once again reconfirmed, through the significant results obtained from harvesting the lots organically fertil-ized by our specialists – 12 tons per hectare, values which exceed the re-sults from the lots cultivated without fertilization or chemically fertil-ized”, declares Ovidiu Timbota, agri-cultural director of Smithfield Ferme.

Following the harvesting of the lots cultivated with Pioneer hybrid corn and organically fertilized, record crops in excess of 12 tons/hectare were obtained.

The event is part of Smithfield Fer-me’s program to promote modern

agriculture, achieved by means of organic fertilizers, developed in part-nership with Pioneer Company and under the supervision of the Office for Pedological and Agrochemical Studies from Timis.

The event was attended by Re-gional Manager Miki Babuscov, on behalf of Pioneer Company, the land owner, Mr. Eugen Baziliuc, repre-sentatives of the National Environ-mental Guard and the National En-vironmental Agency, local authori-ties and farmers.

“We are honored by the partner-ship with Smithfield Ferme with which, year by year, we prove the combined efficiency of our prod-ucts and their constant support for the Romanian farmer”, declared Miki Babuscov, Regional Manager of Pioneer.

n every year Smithfield Ferme fertilizes several thousands of hectares with organic fertilizer, applied with the safest and most modern technologies of injec-tion and scarification, according to plans and analyses which de-termine the optimum quantity of fertilizer required for the crop, for each and every parcel of land.

n These plans and analyses are authorized and issued by the Office for Pedological and Ag-rochemical Studies, a technical specialized body within the Min-istry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

nThe event is part of Smithfield Ferme’s program to promote

modern agriculture, achieved by means of organic fertilizers.

„ The benefits of organic fertilizers are once again reconfirmed,

through the significant results obtained.“

Ovidiu Timbota Agricultural Director – Smithfield Ferme:

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nSmithfield Prod and Smith-field Ferme were awarded the

Excellence award in CSR for the tree planting initiatives.

Excellence Award for Environmental Protec-tion and Community Involvement in 2010

l ast September, the US-based parent-company, Smithfield

Foods, awarded our colleagues from Smithfield Ferme an Excellence Award for Environmental Protec-tion and Community Involvement. The award, in the amount of USD 2,000, was donat-ed to the support centre for children with special educational needs (C.E.S) „Pentru un zâmbet de co-pil” in Masloc village, Ti-mis County.

“This award motivates us to further develop these projects and launch new ones, so as to help the young generation to breathe a cleaner air and have a greener planet”, declared Mr. Bog-dan Mihail, CEO of Smithfield Ro-mania.

The Smithfield Ferme project was developed for one year and included tree planting campaigns, trainings on the environment and selective waste collection, a number of infor-mational, educational and volun-teering actions conducted under the aegis of the “Earth Week”, water test-ing and monitoring actions.

“Environment and community involvement are essential com-ponents of Smithfield’s CSR and

sustainable develop-ment programs and we are proud of our achievements in Ro-mania. You have a model of community involvement which can become a model for other companies

in the Smithfield family”, declares David Townsend, Environmental Affairs, Smithfield Foods.

The awards, granted annually by the management of Smithfield Foods, were created to recognize the activity of the Smithfield subsidiaries and their staff in the prevention of pollution and intensification of en-vironmental protection through in-novative projects. The projects were assessed according to several criteria such as: environmental impact, so-cial significance, originality and in-novation, as well as project transfer-ability to any other group subsidiary.

Smithfield Ferme won the

„ You have a model of community involvement which can become a model for other companies

in the Smithfield family.“

David Townsend Environmental Affairs – Smithfield Foods:

Excellence in CSR award

Smithfield Prod and Smithfield Ferme won the Excellence in CSR Award for the tree planting initiatives, which have be-come a tradition for us, starting 2008.

The award was granted by PRAIS Foun-dation, during the official award cer-emony of the 4th edition of the national planting movement “Millions of People, Millions of Trees”.

Communities and traditions:

“Be one of us!” program

The Western part of Romania is a multicul-tural area of the Central Europe where com-munity traditions and customs are kept by the locals, whether Roma-

nians, Hungarians, Serbians, Swabians or Bulgarians. Smithfield Ferme is excited to support this year also a wide range of customs and festivals related to the tradi-tional rural calendar, whether recitals with folklore songs and dances, traditional craftsmanship fairs, sports events.

All those interested in the support provided for cultural events and local traditions by our company are asked to contact us at the fol-lowing email address: andrada.calancea@smithfieldferme.ro.

Smithfield Ferme’s Green Campaign results in 2010

Smithfield Ferme’s waste selec-tive collection and recycling pro-gram, started last August, has gen-erated a significant participation and, according also to the slogan of this in-ternal campaign – “We collect selectively and select collectively” – we managed to make a difference and show that Smithfield Ferme’s

employees are also committed and responsible citizens. As a result of the program, around 4 tons of pa-per and one ton of plastic materials

were recycled during the four months and a half remained from last year. The Green Cam-paign will be continued this year, hoping to generate as many supporters as possible.

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nWorld Water Monitoring Day is a teaching activity aimed at raising

awareness on the importance of keeping the environment clean.

nhelping hungry homes Program contri-buted also in 2010 to increasing the qua-

lity of life of adults with intellectual disabiliti-es, beneficiaries of „Pentru Voi” Foundation.

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Fifty students monitored the quality of the waters from Timis and Arad County

„Helping Hungry Homes” at Smithfield Prod

„Helping Hungry Homes” at Agroalim

With the “Helping Hungry Homes” program, implemented by Smithfield Prod ever since 2009, we had the opportunity to donate in 2010 more than 4.500 kg of pork and pork prod-ucts to more than 17 different organizations from Timisoara and the surrounding, which take care of persons in social risk situations, supporting them to increase the quality of the life of their beneficiaries.

“Helping Hungry Homes Pro-gram“ contributed also in 2010 to increasing the quality of life of adults with intellectual dis-abilities, beneficiaries of “Pentru Voi” Foundation. This program contributed to providing a daily warm meal for 138 adults with intellectual disabilities, benefi-ciaries of the services provided by “Pentru Voi” Foundation. More than in the previous years, Smith-

field Prod understood this need and responded promptly to the requests by providing fresh pork products several times a week. These were cooked in the Foun-dation’s canteen and served in the two day centers for adults with intellectual disabilities, lo-cated in Freidorf neighborhood: “Împreună” Day Center and “Ladislau Tacsi” Day Center.

“Even though some of our beneficiaries’ families have financial difficulties, they are happy that their children are provided with a good meal by „Pentru Voi”. This is also due to Smithfield Prod, which continues to support the pro-vision of a healthy, quality meal, to the most excluded of the excluded – adults with intellectual disabilities from Timişoara,” said the officials of Pentru Voi Foundation.

In the period June – Sep-tember 2010, Helping Hungry Homes, a program inspired by the best practice model im-plemented in Smithfield Prod ever since 2009, was promoted through working meetings at the local level, as part of a pro-motion tour, in all Agroalim branches. Thus, we managed to start this corporate responsibi-lity program in all the branches, based on a social component, a program with an extraordinary social impact, representative for the application of the valu-es underpinning Smithfield’s working philosophy, througho-ut the world.

As a result hereof, at the end of 2010 the program has been 100% implemented in 4 Agroa-lim branches: Buftea, Cluj, Baia Mare and Bacau, while it is in a contracting stage in all the other branches. In 2010, Agro-alim donated over 4,473 kg of food products to persons in so-cial risk situations. In this period,

we provided food products for more than 8,000 beneficiaries of social services, by means of several local partners, including, among others: Fundatia Roma-na pentru Copii, Comunitate si Familie, Cluj; Caritas Association and Sfantul Stelian Association from B ucharest; Speranta Foun-dation from Baia Mare or Lumi-na Association from Bacau.

This program created the ne-cessary platform for Agroalim to become a more responsible member in the local commu-nity in all the branches where it operates.

I thank my colleagues who, together with me, manage this program on a daily basis, at the local level: Alina – Buftea, Ovi-diu – Cluj, Violeta – Bacau and Petru – Baia Mare, the branch managers who understood the program importance and all the departments which support this program and contribute di-rectly or indirectly to this bene-faction action. (Cristina Bodea)

o ur colleagues from Smithfield Ferme and Smithfield Prod,

together with 50 children from the General School of Barsa, Arad County, and the General School of Utvin, Timis County, tested the wa-ters of Canalul Morilor river and the waters resulting from the treatment process of Smithfield Prod’s treat-ment station, within the interna-tional program “World Water Moni-toring Day”.

This teaching-educational activity was conducted last November, be-

ing already at its third edition, as an experiment with the role of raising the awareness of the young genera-tion regarding the protection of wa-ter resources and the importance of environmental protection.

In Arad County, 30 pupils from the General School of Barsa, to-gether with representatives of Smithfield Ferme’s Environmen-tal department, tested the water of Canalul Morilor river. The event was also attended by the mayor of Barsa, Mr. Avram Ciev, representa-

at the initiative of Smithfield Ferme and Smithfield Prod

tives of Crisuri Romanian Waters, as well as professors of the local school. Within the same period, 20 5th graders from Utvin School with 1st to 8th grades (Sanmihaiu Roman commune), Timis Coun-ty, accompanied by an educator, tested the water resulted from the treatment process within Smith-field Prod’s treatment station. The event was organized as an open lesson with discussions about the importance of preserving the nat-ural resources and, with the help of the testing kits made available, a series of parameters on quality water were monitored.

Tudor Petcu3 years old

andrei Cîrstea

1 year and 10 months old

alexandru Daniel

Solticzki 4 months

old

The YOuNGesT OF us

nWe are looking forward to receiving pictures of your kids, so we invite you to write us at:

Smithfield Ferme, 7-9 Bd. Cetatii, Timisoara or: andrada.Calancea@smithfieldferme.ro .

alexandra Stoian

7 years old

She likes her computer and dolls. She wants to be a doctor.

She likes playing the guitar and wants to be an actress.

Oana Milchi8 years old

She wants to become a police officer, she behaves and likes dancing very much. She likes Little Mermaid cartoons and cries when she hears a sad song.

MayaFormagiu 4 years old

Serena Balaban

7 years old

She likes dancing, music, skating and Barbie cartoons. As of Sep-

tember, she will go to school and is looking forward to unlocking the

secrets of mathematics.

He likes cartoons (his favorites are Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and The Cars), playing Lego and cars. He has many friends and loves his family very much.

Cătălin MariusProdan

Bărbulescu15 years old

He is a member of a folklore dance group. He prac-tices sports and attends classes of electronic organ. He is passionate about folklore and travelling.

He likes fairytales, drawing, Metallica band and girls who are older than he is. As of April, he will go to a nursery.

Sara Maria Chivulescu4 years old

She is sociable, likes dancing, cartoons and sleighing. She wants to be an educator.

He best likes books illustrated with animals.

He likes hypoalergic formula milk, rock music and speaks

foreign languages

The youngest of us

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Vlad Bunescu1 year and 9 months old

Matei Balaban2 years and

6 months oldHe is sociable and friendly, he likes building games and playing with cars and trucks. His favorite cartoons are Disney’s Cars, Tarzan and Toy Story.

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Costantin VaSiliU, Logistics Department, Fresh Deliveries Section. Ever since he started working for the com-pany, Mr. Vasiliu has proven professional-ism, easily integrating within the team, accepting and successfully completing all his work tasks. He has shortly learned the products and the working processes within the department, thus managing to quickly adjust to any position.

Viorica BaRBalaTa, Quality Department. Viorica Barbalata has a remarkable expe-rience in her activity, which enables her to precisely identify the issues arising on the cutting line and correct irregularities in real time. Punctuality and her efficient collaboration with all those involved in the cutting process have also contributed to her victory.

Smithfield Prod 2010 Excellence Awards are honors granted for the entire acti-vity, rewarding those colleagues who remarkably came to the fore throughout the year by the significant positive im-pact each and every one of them had in their field of activity.We would like to congratulate again our colleagues who were chosen the winners of the Excellence Awards for 2010 and wish them more successes in the future:l ionel BRaTU, Inventory controller, Fi-nancial departmentl alexandra ClOSCa, Administration and Waging Specialist, Human Resources departmentl Gabriela NEBUNElEa, Branch Man-ager Bacaul Felicia NaE, Stocks and Internal Trans-port Specialist, Logistics department

l Production – Zaharia GHIMBOASAZache is very hard working and helps on a daily basis with production organization on the two lines he is in charge of. His boss con-fesses that he would clone him if possible… (it’s true, not only him…) and so he would no longer have production problems.

l Technical – Alin CAPRARIUA complete engineer. The development of the new packaging area, a project he was totally involved in, is the argument which convinced Dorel Bodea to propose him among this year’s laureates.

l Rendering – Adrian BELEIHe joined the Rendering team in 2007, as operator. With a positive attitude, it was only a matter of time to become a success-ful team leader.

l Financial – Ana Maria SERBANA person we can all count on. She took over many of Aira’s responsibilities, while also handling successfully all her financial re-porting and SOX tasks.

l Legal – Stefania SURDEHard working, loyal and discreet. She is not so bad in terms of competence either, and she also does not blush to tell you what she truly thinks.

l Logistics – Razvan GONCIULEAHe has been working with the company for almost 4 years. He started at the ware-house of refrigerated products, an admin-istrator without a team, he created the team and took the fresh pork deliveries to a level of excellence.

l Sales – Ionut CRETUHe quickly learned a profession that others need 20 years to master. He is tenacious, does not give up in difficult situations, is resilient to stress. Results – he managed to sell by himself a volume equivalent to 120,000 pigs/year.

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Smithfield Prod employees awarded in 2010

„Smithfield Prod 2010“Excellence awards

Employee of the Month of October

awards

Employee of the Month of November

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Smithfield Foods started to use the “social media” as a means of efficient communication with the employees. you can find below some useful links where Smithfield Foods is officially presented on the web.

n http://www.youtube.com/user/SmithfieldFoodsn http://twitter.com/smithfieldcsrn http://www.flickr.com/

„2010 interns“programl Oana Szackas, student of the Faculty of Political and Communication Sciences, PR intern:

„Following the internship, I acquired a beautiful experience regarding the work in a multinational company. This period helped me in my personal and profes-sional development, as well as improving my practical skills and, implicitly, the pos-sibilities to successfully cope with a job.”

l Simelda Zippfenig, TPA student, Production intern:

„In the three months of practice I man-aged to improve and consolidate my knowledge about pork production and processing, I made friends and developed my communication and teamwork skills. As a student and future engineer, this ex-perience was as interesting as it was use-ful in my university activity.”

l Mihai alDa was chosen the most in-volved employee due to the support pro-vided in Padureni Feedmill. The use of his academic experience and own scientific works helped the feeds laboratory within Padureni Feedmill raise to the highest stan-dards requested by the current legislation in the field of animal feeds. For these, we thank Mr. Alda.

l Rodica BUia was chosen the most involved employee. Mrs. Buia stood out throughout the years due to her remarkable results in the monitoring and coordination of the daily activities related to the financial-accounting transactions. In addition, her active involvement in the implementation of the IT services and of the document and information flows qualified her, once more, to be chosen the most involved employee.

l Vasile iEzaN, due to his contribution in the development of the swine delivery planning process to the slaughterhouse, as well as between the farms. Congratula-tions!

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“Most involved employee” awards

l Silvian MORaRi, environment engineer advisor within the Agricultural Department was chosen the employee most involved in volunteering actions. Employed with Smith-field Ferme for two years, Silvian has actively participated in all the company’s CSR pro-grams: Back to school, World Water Monitor-ing Day, Helping Hungry Homes, Millions of People, Millions of Trees. Our colleague is also a founding member of the non-governmen-tal organization Friends of Nature, collaborat-ing in the WWMD action of November 2009 organized in Gătaia.

l Viorel MaRa, a Smithfield Ferme em-ployee for 10 years occupying the position of head of maintenance service, was chosen the most innovative employee. Viorel received this honor due to his innovation and active involvement in making the production pro-cesses more efficient and increasingly better.

l Marian SaBaDiS was chosen the most involved employee due to his special con-tribution to the company’s volunteering ac-tions and social responsibility.

awards

nSmithfield Romania is honored to recog-nize and appreciate the special involve-

ment, perseverance, performance, abnegati-on of its employees. Together, we are certain we shall stay the best!

We want to congratulate again our award-winning colleagues and wish them more successes in the future.

nat the end of last year, Smithfield company received the international

certification for occupational health and safety management system implementa-tion – OhSaS 18001:2007.

No. 1 – March 2011

l Mircea BÎTCĂ, ISO Coordinator, was cho-sen the „Employee of the Month” for his ded-ication, involvement and successful imple-mentation of the sys-tem in only 9 months.

Mircea Bîtcă has been working for Smithfield Ferme since April 2006, within the environ-mental department, and become the project coordinator for the implementation of the in-tegrated management system in February 2009. Last year, Smithfield Ferme received three important international certifications from TÜV Austria Romania for the implemen-tation of the Quality Management System (ISO 9001:2008), of the Environmental Management System (ISO 14001: 2004) and of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS 18001:2007). Under his coordination, Smithfield Ferme has recently obtained the HACCP certificate

l Gheorghe BaDER. For his devotion, perseverance and engagement in pri-oritizing and solving various key situations appeared in the con-structions and main-tenance department

and thorough knowledge of all the techno-logical equipments used for the operation of Smithfield farms.

l Virginia SUCiU. For more than 30 years of activity in the ad-ministration and development of soft-ware programs spe-cific to the production flow and manage-ment accountancy.

awardee in 2010

“Employee of the month“ in 2011

nSmithfield is a company which develops year-by-year and wants the communities

where it operates to know the same development.

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“Helping Hungry Homes”

„Un zâmbet de copil “

„Un zâmbet de copil “

„Milions of people, milions of trees“

(planting at Nitchidorf)

„Milions of people, milions of trees“

„Green Week“ - Smithfield Prod„Water Monitoring Day“

at Bârsa

„Your World? Clean!“ Program

„Green Week“ - Smithfield Prod

Earth Day

CSR 2010 in images: