FreshRealm Inc., a food-as-a-service (FaaS) company that develops, manufactures and distributes fresh foods through a variety of channels including retail, has announced it will invest $6.3 million to expand its Montezuma, Ga., plant, creating more than 300 jobs in the region.
FreshRealm serves grocery, foodservice, hospitality, direct-to-consumer, medical and other customers with its fresh food platform. Snow Le, president of FreshRealm, called the Montezuma location an “excellent location for us to strategically reach the entire U.S., especially the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.”
The expansion is expected to enhance current production at the facility and add several new lines, allowing the company to provide ready-to-heat and ready-to-cook meals, meal kits and more throughout the region, the announcement stated.
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Andy Hanacek
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Andy Hanacek has covered meat, poultry, bakery and snack foods as a B2B editor for nearly 20 years, and has toured hundreds of processing plants and food companies, sharing stories of innovation and technological advancement throughout the food supply chain. In 2018, he won a Folio:Eddie Award for his unique "From the Editor's Desk" video blogs, and he has brought home additional awards from Folio and ASBPE over the years. In addition, Hanacek led the Meat Industry Hall of Fame for several years and was vice president of communications for We R Food Safety, a food safety software and consulting company.