Fayetteville-based Custom Craft Poultry has expanded into Little Rock, due, in part, to running out of capacity at its Batesville plant.
In this week’s issue, Arkansas Business reports growth in the six-year-old company has prompted the opening of Custom Craft’s Little Rock processing facility.
The magazine said the Batesville plant’s capacity is about 1.3 million pounds of poultry a week and employs about 225 while the Little Rock facility’s capacity will be 2.5 million to 3 million pounds a week. The company hopes to eventually employ up to 300 workers at the new plant, according to the magazine.
Custom Craft’s CEO Randell Smith told the magazine the Little Rock plant will also give the company the ability to share resources with the Batesville location and access to raw poultry materials it needs.
The new, 125,000-SF Little Rock plant will receive raw poultry materials that have been refrigerated, but not frozen.
Smith attributes the company’s growth to “a wide variety of industrial, retail, and food service customers and Custom Craft’s relationships with those customers,” the magazine said.
To read the full Arkansas Business article, click here.
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