Posted on 07/10/2017 2:00:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A foods company from Illinois, Moore’s Food Resources, announced plans to build a new bakery in southern Greenville County to make beet waffles and muffin loafs.
Sheila Moore, the company’s chief executive and owner, said she plans to open the $55 million, 132,230-square-foot bakery next year in the Augusta Grove industrial park along U.S. 25. It will employ 182 people at first and be the company’s headquarters, she said.
Moore said she plans to build additional production capacity in three years, expanding the bakery by 50,000 square feet.
The 10-year plan is to triple the bakery’s original size to 375,000 square feet, Moore told reporters at the Westin Poinsett Hotel in downtown Greenville. She announced the bakery just before the start of the annual meeting of the Greenville Area Development Corp., Greenville County’s economic development organization.
Moore said Moore’s Food Resources is currently based in Glenview, Illinois, and contracts with bakeries in Tennessee, California, and Oregon. The company uses the Sheila Moore’s Gourmet Recipes brand name and sells to colleges and universities, luxury hotels and casinos, and K-12 schools.
Moore said she looked at potential sites for the bakery in Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, but picked Greenville in part because she wants to help former workers of the former Sara Lee Corp. bagel and pizza dough complex in Greenville, where she used to work.
Moore said she used to sell flavoring to the former Sara Lee facility and also worked in sales there from 2004 to 2007, leaving not long before it closed.
A Pennsylvania company called Sweet Street Desserts now occupies the complex along Interstate 85.
Asked why she picked Greenville for the bakery, Moore said, “The other states were very competitive, but also I know so many people in Greenville that I wanted to come and help this town.”
The Augusta Grove industrial park was originally developed by Greenville County and used to be called The Matrix.
Late last year, the county entered into a public/private partnership with Atlanta’s TPA Group and a local group called Appian Investments to buy 709 undeveloped acres at The Matrix and begin marketing the property as Augusta Grove.
Beet waffles?
Makes no sense to me either but 182 jobs for Americans sure does. Maybe it’s a gluten-free thing or something.
Beet waffles?
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BEER waffles?
Beet waffles?
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BEER waffles?
Well maybe so but I think a distant second after beer and pizza.
Interesting...another win!!!
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