"An expanding customer base meant we needed to make more product, and to do that we needed a new plant." With that succinct summation, CEO Bob Shearer of Shearer's Foods explains the background behind the Millennium Manufacturing Facility, a 110,000-sq-ft snack food manufacturing plant that his Brewster, OH-based firm just opened in Massillon, OH. Shearer's growth has been fueled not only by the popularity of its own-brand products sold throughout Ohio and surrounding states, but also by contract manufacturing and by a private-label business that includes some of the nation's largest retailers.
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