McKee Foods has announced plans to invest more than half a billion dollars in capital investments over the next 15 years, including a major expansion to its production facility in Collegedale, Tenn.
McKee, maker of the Little Debbie line of ready-to-eat cakes and pastries, says the $500 million investment will come in phases. The first phase, which will encompass five years, will cost about $225 million. About $110 million will go toward doubling the size of its Apison plant in Collegedale and adding production lines. The first phase is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2020.
The capital investment is projected to add 480 new jobs over the course of the entire 15 years, with 125 of them coming in the first five-year phase.
McKee Foods broke ground on the Apison Plant in April 1996, and production began in May 1997. The plant nearly tripled in size with an expansion completed in December 2006. A third expansion finished in November 2012 and included new offices and a new break room area
