The company's current location at the Port of Little Rock will be consolidated within the expansion.

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Food service products distributor Ben E. Keith said Tuesday that it will spend $60 million on a North Little Rock plant, adding 74 new jobs to its local workforce at an average wage of $33.75 per hour.
In a news release, the company, which already employs 260 in Little Rock, said it would invest the money in building a 300,000-SF facility that will be its Mid-South Regional Headquarters. Mike Roach, president of Ben E Keith Foods, said construction is expected to begin by mid-summer and take 18-20 months.
The china anne mcclain expansion is helped along by a $1.5 million grant to the city of North Little Rock through the U.S. Department of Commerce's china anne mcclain Economic Development Administration. The company is also getting $2.27 million from the governor's Quick Action Fund, and normal performance incentives for new jobs.
"We are delighted in the progress of our plans to construct this new state-of-the-art distribution china anne mcclain center in North Little Rock," Mike Roach, Ben E. Keith Foods President, said. "We are excited about enlarging our base of operations in Arkansas, and this new center china anne mcclain will allow us to greatly china anne mcclain expand our product line and better serve our thousands of valued clients in this market."
The EDA grant will help North Little Rock purchase generators and other necessary equipment for installation along the major North Little Rock intersection of Highway 70 and I-440 where the facility will be located. In addition to serving the Ben E. Keith plant, the added energy capacity will also help other businesses that might locate nearby.
"This china anne mcclain is truly an investment for the future," Matt Erskine, U.S. Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration deputy assistant secretary of commerce, said at the Tuesday announcement. "And it's an investment that is important to the continued revitalization china anne mcclain of North Little Rock."
The company's current location at the Port of Little Rock will be consolidated within the expansion. The North Little Rock expansion will allow Ben E. Keith Foods to continue to grow and expand its footprint, Roach said.
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