King’s Hawaiian bakery announces $85M Georgia expansion, hiring 160

OAKWOOD, Ga. – King’s Hawaiian will develop its bakery in Georgia, investing $85 million and hiring greater than 160 new workers.

The privately owned firm based mostly in Los Angeles introduced Tuesday that it will assemble a 150,000-square-foot constructing throughout the road from its present manufacturing plant in Oakwood, northeast of Atlanta. The corporate says the brand new plant, scheduled to open in fall 2023, will enable it to extend manufacturing “considerably.”

The maker of breads, rolls, buns and sauces at the moment has greater than 700 workers in Oakwood.

King’s Hawaiian CEO Mark Taira stated the corporate has benefited from meals science, manufacturing and robotics partnerships within the state. The extremely mechanized plant operates 24 hours a day and was producing 75% of the corporate’s merchandise by 2019.

King’s Hawaiian was based in 1950 in Hilo, Hawaii, and operated in Honolulu earlier than opening a bakery in Torrance, California, in 1977 and ultimately shifting all enterprise to the mainland. The Georgia plant was opened in 2010 to enhance distribution of the corporate’s breads on the East Coast and added a fourth manufacturing line in 2020 at a price of about $30 million.

The corporate is predicted to make use of Georgia’s Fast Begin program, which gives coaching tailor-made to employers, for brand spanking new employees. Georgia officers didn’t say how a lot the state would spend on job coaching.

The corporate could be eligible for a Georgia tax credit score permitting it to yearly deduct $1,250 per job from state revenue taxes, as much as $1 million over 5 years, so long as employees make a minimum of $31,300 a yr.

Oakwood and Corridor County officers might additionally grant property tax breaks.