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    Capital Spending

    2024 Capital Spending Outlook: Unfinished Business

    Andy Hanacek
    April 30, 2024
    After making big capital spending plans for 2023 — and underspending those budgets — food & beverage processors are proceeding at a more normalized pace (+3%).
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    Capital Spending

    Korean Bakery Company SPC Group to Build Massive Bakery in Burleson, Texas

    Andy Hanacek
    Jan. 9, 2025
    The 1.6-million-sq.-ft. facility would serve the company’s Paris Baguette bakery stores throughout North America, which are currently receiving baked goods as frozen dough manufactured...
    Courtesy of The Hain Celestial Group
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    R&D

    Hain Celestial Unveils New Innovation Center at Hoboken, New Jersey, Headquarters

    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 20, 2024
    The 2,200-sq.-ft. Innovation Experience Center is expected to usher in “a new era of innovation” for the better-for-you foods company.
    Courtesy of Richardson International Ltd.
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    Plant Expansion

    Richardson International to Double Granola Packaging Capacity in South Sioux City, Nebraska

    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 12, 2024
    Expansion project will begin immediately with an expected completion date in the first quarter of 2026.
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    Plant Expansion

    Baxter’s Bakery Plans Significant Expansion of Cobourg, Ontario, Facility

    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 11, 2024
    The company will expand the plant, investing nearly $3.5 million CAD to upgrade with new equipment and automation.
    Courtesy of BrightFarms
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    Fruits and Vegetables

    BrightFarms Opens New CEA Greenhouse in Lorena, Texas

    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 10, 2024
    Controlled environment agriculture company’s newest leafy greens facility will cover 1.5 million square feet and allow BrightFarms to distribute its products in the South Central...
    Courtesy of Anheuser-Busch
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    Capital Spending

    Anheuser-Busch Commits $10 Million to Upgrade Jacksonville, Florida, Brewery

    Andy Hanacek
    Dec. 3, 2024
    Brewery that has been in operation since 1969 will get updates to equipment and infrastructure in latest U.S. capital investment by the company.
    Nina Firsova
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    Capital Spending

    Amy’s Kitchen Pauses Construction of Goshen, New York, Processing Plant

    Andy Hanacek
    Nov. 25, 2024
    Work on the very slow-moving capital project will stop for the time being, five years after groundbreaking, and with the future of the facility up in the air for now.
    Courtesy of Anheuser-Busch
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    Capital Spending

    Anheuser-Busch Investing $14 Million to Upgrade Houston, Texas, Brewery

    Andy Hanacek
    Nov. 22, 2024
    The beer behemoth’s capital-spending spree continues, as it embarks upon its fifth improvement project in the past 12 months.

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    Capital Spending

    Anheuser-Busch to Pour $16 Million in CapEx into Los Angeles Brewery

    Andy Hanacek
    Oct. 3, 2024
    Plans to expand packaging for non-beer brands like Cutwater and Nutrl, and make improvements to environmental impact, among other projects.
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    Bakery & Baked Goods

    Campbell’s Finishes New Goldfish Production Line in Richmond, Utah, Bakery

    Andy Hanacek
    Sept. 25, 2024
    The $160 million investment, along with a new adjacent flour mill, is expected to add significant efficiencies and output capacities over the next several years.
    Courtesy of Plenty Unlimited
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    Fruits and Vegetables

    Plenty Unlimited Opens First Indoor Vertical Strawberry Farm

    Andy Hanacek
    Sept. 25, 2024
    Plenty Richmond Farm represents a decade’s worth of work to develop methods to grow more than just lettuce in vertical indoor farming facilities.
    Andrey Starostin
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    Capital Spending

    Construction Resumes on New Bacon Processing Plant in Davenport, Iowa

    Andy Hanacek
    Sept. 6, 2024
    Fair Oaks Foods had paused the $134 million project in August 2023, but local reports say construction has resumed in earnest.