US ice cream maker Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream is starting work on a US$180m project to triple the capacity of its Laurel manufacturing facility and add a state-of-the-art warehouse to serve the eastern US.
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The company aims to create more than 300 new jobs by the time the project is completed in 2007.
Dreyer’s Laurel operations centre in Howard County, Maryland, currently employs 220 staff producing a wide range of Nestlé and Edy’s frozen snacks including Nestlé Drumstick, Nestlé Crunch, Butterfinger, and Edy’s Fruit Bars. The project will add nearly 600,000 square feet of production and warehouse space, ten frozen snack production lines, and two packaged ice cream lines, enabling the manufacturing of packaged ice cream products like Haagen-Dazs, in addition to a full range of Nestlé and Edy’s frozen snacks.
The expansion will also include a new 200,000-square-foot ice cream warehouse that will hold up to 23,000 pallets of ice cream and frozen snacks for quick shipment to stores, restaurants and ice cream parlours across the eastern US.
“It is critical to the success of our Edy’s, Nestlé and Haagen-Dazs brands that we have a stellar manufacturing and distribution centre on the east coast,” said T. Gary Rogers, Dreyer’s chairman and chief executive officer.
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