Harry’s Fresh Foods Opens Nashville Facility
Harry’s Fresh Foods offers flexible manufacturing capabilities and uses fresh ingredients that are sourced locally, whenever possible
Harry’s Fresh Foods, a Portland, Oregon-based manufacturer of premium refrigerated and frozen soups, entrées, sides and desserts, announced an expansion operations with a production facility in Nashville, Tenn.
“This expansion increases Harry’s capacity on both sides of the country and enables us to offer the same high-quality products with less distance to travel,” said Harry’s Fresh Foods CEO Jamie Colbourne. “Having a 200,000-square-foot facility east of the Rocky Mountains improves efficiency and available delivered shelf life on the company’s fresh, natural and organic products.”
The reduced travel distance for products also has environmental benefits that align well with Harry’s fresh, natural and organic approach.
“We are thrilled to be improving our ability to serve customers on a national basis with a stateof-the-art facility,” said John Sucharski, Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain. “This move into Nashville likely makes Harry’s Fresh Foods the first company in its category to offer manufacturing on both sides of the Rockies.”
The new Nashville facility will produce branded and private-label products for club, retail and food-service customers. Harry’s Fresh Foods will also continue to develop strategic partnerships in the contract–packing and private-label business.
Harry’s Fresh Foods offers flexible manufacturing capabilities and uses fresh ingredients that are sourced locally, whenever possible.
The facility in Nashville was previously operated by Oberto Brands of Kent, Wash., which announced in January its plans to close the plant after three years there. Harry’s Fresh Foods hired 25 employees in Nashville on May 1, with another 60-75 employees to be added in July.
The goal is to have the facility up and running in the third quarter of 2016. The transaction closed on April 29. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“This expansion increases Harry’s capacity on both sides of the country and enables us to offer the same high-quality products with less distance to travel,” said Harry’s Fresh Foods CEO Jamie Colbourne. “Having a 200,000-square-foot facility east of the Rocky Mountains improves efficiency and available delivered shelf life on the company’s fresh, natural and organic products.”
The reduced travel distance for products also has environmental benefits that align well with Harry’s fresh, natural and organic approach.
“We are thrilled to be improving our ability to serve customers on a national basis with a stateof-the-art facility,” said John Sucharski, Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain. “This move into Nashville likely makes Harry’s Fresh Foods the first company in its category to offer manufacturing on both sides of the Rockies.”
The new Nashville facility will produce branded and private-label products for club, retail and food-service customers. Harry’s Fresh Foods will also continue to develop strategic partnerships in the contract–packing and private-label business.
Harry’s Fresh Foods offers flexible manufacturing capabilities and uses fresh ingredients that are sourced locally, whenever possible.
The facility in Nashville was previously operated by Oberto Brands of Kent, Wash., which announced in January its plans to close the plant after three years there. Harry’s Fresh Foods hired 25 employees in Nashville on May 1, with another 60-75 employees to be added in July.
The goal is to have the facility up and running in the third quarter of 2016. The transaction closed on April 29. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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