Swift Prepared Foods, a subsidiary of JBS USA, celebrated the opening of its new $68-million bacon facility in Moberly, Mo., on May 24.
According to the Moberly Monitor-Index, the new facility will create at least 200 new jobs in the community.
Swift Prepared Foods provides high-quality protein products and innovative prepared foods such as bacon, ribs and deli meats throughout the U.S.
This is the company’s sixth domestic prepared foods facility in the country. This plant will produce fully cooked bacon. Swift Prepared Foods noted the site’s strategic location as well as support from the community and the state of Missouri as key reasons for building a plant in Moberly, the Moberly Monitor-Index reports.
Nearly three weeks ago Swift Prepared Foods began constructing a 325,000-square-foot plant in Columbia, Mo., that will employ nearly 250 persons. It will produce Italian meats including salami, pepperoni, prosciutto and pancetta, the Moberly Monitor-Index reports.
The company, formerly named Plumrose USA, took its first steps towards this goal last November when a $300,000 gift was handed to the city where monies were shared among the Moberly Parks and Recreation Department to help support the construction of an outdoor amphitheater near the Rothwell Park Riley Pavilion, and a large size water splash pad and restroom facility for public use erected at Tannehill Park. A portion of the funds were also handed to the Randolph Area YMCA for the purpose of helping promote a more healthy lifestyle for persons living in the community, the article said.
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