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Thomasville Rounds Up Beef Business |
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Thomasville Times Thursday, July 29, 2004 By Blenda Link |
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| THOMASVILLE- Thomasville is beefing up its local industry again. | |||||||||
| American Fresh Foods LP, based in Fort Worth, Texas, comprising American Foodservice Corporation, of King of Prussia, Pa., and Fairbank Farms, of Ashville, N.Y., will begin construction this fall in Thomasville. | |||||||||
| The announcement was made Wednesday at a podium sided by platters of empty hamburger buns at the Thomasville- Thomas Chamber of Commerce. Smiles and laughter arose about the general joke, “Where’s the beef?” | |||||||||
| American Fresh Foods will build its 75,000 square foot facility on a 14-acre site near the Americold Freezer building off the West Bypass. | |||||||||
| The plant is estimated to create 100 jobs over the next three years. | |||||||||
| The investment to locate to Thomasville is between $8.5 and $12 million over a three-year period, said Barry E. Renninger, president and chief operations officer for American Foodservice Corporation of King of Prussia, Pa. | |||||||||
| Rick Fahle, president of Fairbank Farms, said he hopes the new facility will start operating by spring 2005. | |||||||||
| “We’re actually meeting the engineers out at the job site tomorrow,” Fahle said. | |||||||||
| Fahle said he expects the Thomasville plant to be the only Southeast expansion. He said American Fresh Foods could double the size of the building if it chose to. | |||||||||
| “This should be our only location in the Southeast, “he said. | |||||||||
| Local officials expressed happiness over the deal. | |||||||||
| Rick Singletary, mayor of Thomasville, said he was excited to see American Fresh Foods come to Thomasville. | |||||||||
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