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New bakery to supply
Dunkin' shops in Atlanta
Coffee Cafe Bakery, Atlanta, announced plans to invest approximately $10 million to build a baked foods production facility in
Fulton County, Ga. Once completed, the 31,150-square-foot plant
will supply baked foods to more than 150 Dunkin' restaurants
across the metro Atlanta area.
The new facility will include high-tech production lines and
equipment used for mixing, frying, glazing and finishing baked
foods, including Dunkin's signature donuts, Coffee Cafe Bakery
said. The company said only about 100 of the production facilities
exist nationwide.
"Our group is excited to undertake this project in our hometown of Atlanta and partner with the Georgia Department of
Economic Development to bring new jobs to one of the state's
opportunity zones," said Shams Charania, chief people officer
for ZSC Enterprises, which owns Coffee Cafe Bakery along with
Chunara Food Group.

General Mills invests in
Totino's plant
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, has unveiled plans to invest millions to upgrade its manufacturing plant in Wellston, Ohio. The
facility specializes in making Totino's pizza snacks and is one of
the largest frozen food manufacturing plants in the nation.
General Mills said the investment will include a focus on increasing overall capacity and improving operations to be more
productive and efficient. The expansion will add jobs to the plant,
bringing total full-time employees at the facility to nearly 900.
Totino's originated in 1951 as a family pizza parlor in
Minneapolis. Now, more than 300 million Totino's party pizzas
are sold every year.
General Mills said it has been offered a $1 million development
grant from JobsOhio and OhioSE. The grant will be used toward
building, machinery, equipment and infrastructure costs.
- Eric Schroeder, Food Business News

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Mission Foods plant to be
built in Indiana
Gruma Corp., San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, plans to expand
in the Midwest with the construction of a Mission Foods tortilla
manufacturing facility in Plainfield, Ind.
As part of the expansion, Mission Foods will lease, build out
and equip the 510,965-square-foot manufacturing facility. The
plant will incorporate advanced technological, quality and safety
features, and will produce corn tortillas, flour tortillas, tortilla
chips, flatbreads and other baked products, with a capacity 187.85
million lbs of food products annually.
Mission Foods expects to begin operations in early 2021 and
be fully operational in 2024. A total of 544 jobs are expected to be
created because of the development by 2026.
"Mission Foods is thrilled to join the Hoosier community,"
said German Chavez, vice president of manufacturing at Mission
Foods. "We have found that our operations are most successful
when we partner with hardworking individuals that are excited to
make the highest quality food products in the world. Indiana is a
perfect match."
- Eric Schroeder, Food Business News

In Memoriam
Robert Coughenour, a longtime veteran of
the flour milling industry, died in August. He
was 95 years old.
Mr. Coughenour's career in the flour milling
industry spanned 47 years, beginning in 1942
with KBR Milling Co. of McPherson, Kan. He
joined KBR after serving time with the US
Navy during World War II as a sonar man and
Coughenour
technician on the USS LaPrade, a destroyer escort in the Pacific.
KBR Milling Co. was consolidated into Rodney Milling and
later into Seaboard Allied Milling. Mr. Coughenour was named
vice president of Seaboard Allied Milling in 1967.
Following his retirement from Seaboard Allied Milling, Mr.
Coughenour joined the International Association of Operative
Millers as executive vice president.

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