Highlights

Food Processing Capital Spending 2023
Food Processing Capital Spending 2023
Food Processing Capital Spending 2023
Food Processing Capital Spending 2023
Food Processing Capital Spending 2023
Capital Spending

2023 Capital Spending Outlook: Food and Beverage Capital Spending Continues to Grow

March 29, 2023
Food and beverage processors aren’t writing blank checks for capital expenditures, but enthusiasm abounds as food companies plan to invest heavily in their own growth in 2023 ...
Mergers & Acquisitions

Cal-Maine Completes Acquisition of Tyson’s Dexter, Missouri, Processing Plant

March 15, 2024
Facility will be converted to process shell egg and egg products, Cal-Maine Foods announced.
Courtesy of Walmart
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Capital Spending

Walmart to Build its Third Milk Processing Facility, in Robinson, Texas

March 7, 2024
New milk plant continues the retailer’s expansion into processing its own products, and will be the third of its kind for the company in the U.S.
Capital Spending

AI-Powered Pet Foods Brand Plans for New Midwest Processing Plant

Feb. 29, 2024
A $2 million seed funding round will be put toward opening a second manufacturing facility, further product development and marketing of plant-based pet foods.
Capital Spending

Freeze-Dried Pet Food Co-Man Petsource Completes $75 Million Expansion

Feb. 19, 2024
The company’s plant in Seward, Neb., has tripled its production capacity just a few years after its grand opening.
Capital Spending

Conecuh Sausage Stays True to Home, Will Build Second Plant in Alabama

Feb. 16, 2024
After researching out-of-state options for a second production facility, Conecuh Sausage will build a plant in Andalusia, Ala., at an investment of nearly $58 million.
Courtesy of Upside Foods
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Alternative Protein

Upside Foods Halts Plan for New Illinois Cultivated Meat Plant

Feb. 16, 2024
Cultivated meat company will ease off the gas pedal and redirect efforts toward expanding its current facility in California before building a new production facility.
Plant Expansion

Golden State Foods to Invest $9.4 Million in Opelika, Alabama, Plant

Feb. 12, 2024
Opelika city council approved the investment and granted a 10-year tax abatement to GSF.
Capital Spending

Bakery Express Midwest Breaks Ground on New Plant in Boone County, Kentucky

Feb. 7, 2024
New, 50,000-sq.-ft. commercial bakery is expected to begin operations in April 2025, according to reports.
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Plant Expansion

Halal-Certified Beef Bacon Processing Coming to Former Pie Facility in Nebraska

Nov. 8, 2023
McCook, Neb.-based Copperstone Foods plans to process 30,000 pounds of beef bacon per day when operations begin next summer in The Village PieMaker’s former facility in Eustis...
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Animal Proteins

New Pork Processing Plant Opens in Western Canada, Easing Shipping Strains for Hog Farmers

Nov. 3, 2023
The North 49 Foods facility in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, will alleviate the need to ship Canadian-raised sows hundreds of miles across the border to the U.S. for processing.
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Capital Spending

Stellar Snacks Plans Second Production Facility for Louisville

Oct. 31, 2023
Mother-daughter-owned company investing $137 million in a 434,000-sq.-ft. pretzel bakery, its second plant.
Courtesy of The Cheesecake Factory Inc.
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Capital Spending

The Cheesecake Factory Inc. to Build $74 Million Bakery Facility in Indiana

Oct. 26, 2023
New plant in Charlestown, Ind., will be the company’s third bakery production facility and will serve its own restaurants as well as retail and foodservice customers.