Richardson Brands to expand in Montgomery County – Birmingham Business Journal:

State officials said Thursday that which makes candyin Canajoharie, will receive $1.5 million to help it buy new That’s the first step in a three-yeat expansion plan for the company. The company employs 128 people, and planas to add 70 jobs overthree years. The compan had considered moving its Canajoharie headquarter s to the site of a Connecticut companhy that Richardson acquiredin 2006, if state funding was not available. Instead, the companyu will move the 40 jobs in Connecticurtto Canajoharie. Another 30 local jobs will come from a companyu in Missouri that Richardson is the deal is scheduled to closein “We never wanted to leavd town,” said CEO Donald Butte.
“The timing on this is Richardson buys steam heat from a baby food company that is leavin g its Canajoharie site in April 2010 to move into a new headquarters in the townof Florida, outside of Amsterdam. That left Richardsonj in a bind, and needing financial assistance to buy its own boilera to heatits 180,000-square-foot facility. The new low-emissiomn boilers, and additional related machinery, will help Richardsom add 15 jobs. Buttew ordered the boiler on May 16, before the statde formally committed toits funding.
The boiler is tentativelt due to be delivered inMarch 2010—onre month before Beech-Nut is set to “They think they can get it to us in 10 That’s squeaking it in before the Butte said with a chuckle. The total project cost is estimatedat $2.4 Richardson is putting $385,000 into the project. Butted has said he needs as muchas $14 million of state funding over three years to help complete his expansionj plans and fix flooe damage at his facility, sufferes during the 2006 flooding of the Mohawk In a signed agreement, the state committed to work with Richardson on the next phase of the company’s expansion
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