Chewing-Gum Giant Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. To Add Jobs at Hall County, Ga., Plant
Posted on: Friday, 24 February 2006, 12:00 CST
By Leon Stafford, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Feb. 24--Chewing gum giant Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., maker of Juicy Fruit, Altoids and Life Savers, on Thursday announced plans to add about 200 jobs at its Hall County manufacturing plant as part of a $48 million upgrade.
The move -- expected since the Chicago-based company completed the acquisition of some of Kraft Foods' confectionery business assets this past June -- would bring total employment at the Flowery Branch facility to more than 1,000.
The company has already begun hiring new workers.
"We're posting and attending job fairs right now," said company spokesman Christopher Perille.
"We have already found 30 or 40 of the 200 people we plan to hire," he said.
The facility is Wrigley's biggest U.S. manufacturing plant.
The state put together an incentive package for the company worth more than $3 million, including various tax credits and training assistance, company officials said.
The capital improvements at the plant, which include new equipment for new product lines, are part of Wrigley's plan to beef up output, Perille said.
The plant, which already produces Eclipse, Doublemint, Extra and other gums, will add Altoids and Orbits to the mix in the upgrade, he said. It also will manufacture different gum ingredients.
"There's going to be a significant increase in production," he said.
The plant, adjacent to I-985, first opened in 1971 and has expanded several times.
-----
To see more of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.ajc.com.
Copyright (c) 2006, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213) 237-4914 (worldwide), fax (213) 237-6515, or e-mail reprints@krtinfo.com.
WWY, KFT, MO,
Source: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Related Articles
- Too Many Ethanol Plants?
- Cingular Gives Phones a High-Speed Kick
- Georgia Power Remains Undecided on Atlanta-Area Power-Complex Expansion
- Roundy's Reveals New Big Chiller: Kenosha Plant Will Churn Out Company's Ice Cream, Water, Meat
- Ted Turner's Departure May Help Atlanta
- Ford Towns Fear Bad News
- Comcast Set to Sell Phone Service in the Atlanta Area
- Cloud of Uncertainty Settles Over Ford's Area Stamping Plant
- Workers to Fight for Ford Plants
- Firing of Design Team to Boost Costs of New Atlanta Airport Terminal
 |
 |
User Comments (0)
RSS Feeds