Nestle will invest $ $320 million in pet food factory in Georgia

New York, 27/9-Nestlé reported, on Wednesday, 27, who plans to invest $ $320 million until 2023 in a new factory of animal feed in the United States. The investment is part of the Group's strategy to focus on high-potential growth segments.
The Swiss food maker said that your subsidiary in the U.S. State of Missouri, Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, plans to open a pet food plant and a distribution center in the city of Hartwell, in Georgia. The new unit is to create 240 new jobs over the next five years.
The distribution center should start operating in 2018, while the productive activity is expected to start in 2019, the company reported. "Hartwell will be an excellent location for the first new plant purine in United States in 20 years," said Vice President of manufacturing of Nestlé Purina, John Bear.