Dutch retailer Ahold is to team up with US meats firm Vantage Foods on a processing project in Pennsylvania.

Ahold, which owns chains including Stop & Shop and Giant Food in the US, will build a plant in Lower Allen Township in Pennsylvania, state governor Tom Corbett announced today (13 November).

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Corbett said the 162,000 square foot plant would create 850 jobs.

Mark McGowan, executive vice president for Ahold USA’s supply chain, said the facility was a “significant investment in the future”.

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