McKee Foods announces major investment and expansion
McKee Foods, creator and producer of Little Debbie baked goods, plans to invest more than $500 million in capital projects over a 15-year period, including expansion of its Apison, Tenn., plant and additional investments in its Collegedale, Tenn., facilities.
McKee Foods, creator and producer of Little Debbie baked goods, Drake’s cakes, Sunbelt Bakery snacks and cereals, and Fieldstone Bakery food products, plans to invest more than $500 million in capital projects over a 15-year period, including expansion of its Apison, Tenn., plant and additional investments in its Collegedale, Tenn., facilities.
McKee has also committed to creating 125 new jobs in the first seven years of the project, with 480 expected to be created over the course of the entire project. Of the company’s initial five-year outlay of approximately $225 million, $110 million is set to more than double the current size of the Apison plant. The expansion will add the first new production line and mark the fourth major expansion of the facility. Work will be completed in phases, with the first phase commencing in the summer of 2020.