Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:48:53 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Carolina Premium Foods to hire 700 in Siler City
Carolina Premium Foods, a Moore County company establishing an antibiotic free chicken processing plant at a former Townsend Chicken facility in Siler City, hopes to hire 700 employees at full-scale production, with 200 anticipated hires by next summer.
CEO Brian Thomsen says contracts to distribute antibiotic free chicken are in place with distributors across the country.
“We have agreements with distributors to carry 2 million pounds of chicken per week,” he says. “The Siler City plant at full operation for us will generate 3.5 million pounds per week.â”
Thomsen’s goal is to source local chicken by partnering with 200 local family farms from within an 80-mile radius. With 200 employees in the first phase of production, he hopes to reach 700 employees by the time the plant scales up to the third planned phase.
Read the entire story at http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/09/17/carolina-premium-foods-to-hire-700-in-siler-city.html