US-based food brand Amy’s Kitchen will establish a new organic food manufacturing plant in Goshen, Orange County, New York with an investment of $100m, a move which will create about 700 jobs.
Work on the 500,000ft2 plant, which is expected to go onstream by 2016-end, will start early next year.
Amy's Kitchen owner Andy Berliner said, "The potential to source so many of our agricultural ingredients close to the plant was another important factor in our decision."
In support of the project, the company will receive up to $6.8m in performance-based incentives from Empire State Development.
It also received a 15-year Pilot agreement from the Orange County Industrial Development Agency, including $4.5m property tax abatement, $420,000 in mortgage tax exemptions and $6.5m in sales and use tax exemptions.
Amy's Kitchen is a privately-held firm with a portfolio of over 250 organic products, and has a workforce of 1,900. The company offers a range of frozen entrees, pizza, burritos, wraps and bowls, to soups, beans, salsa and pasta sauce, as well as sweets, including cakes, cookies and candy bars.
