Premium Brands Holdings to build sandwich production facility in Arizona

Speciality food product manufacturer Premium Brands Holdings has announced plans to construct a sandwich assembly facility in Phoenix, Arizona, US.

The new facility will be built over 212,000ft² and is slated to open in the second quarter of next year.

It will support the company's other sandwich production facilities in Reno, Columbus, Edmonton and Montreal.

Once the Phoenix plant is complete, the company will have approximately 610,000ft² of sandwich production capacity.

Premium Brands Holdings president and CEO George Paleologou said: “The strong growth of our sandwich business in recent years has been driven by several emerging consumer and industry trends that are rapidly gaining momentum.

“Our continued investment in the sandwich category will not only help to ensure we maintain our leading role in responding to these trends, but will also further enhance our ability to offer large national and international customers with unique product and supply chain solutions.”

The company plans to invest approximately $29m for the construction of the Phoenix facility.

This plant will have 16 high-speed sandwich assembly lines.  It will initially have six lines, and the remainder will be added at a later stage.