Dive Brief:
- Nestle USA is expanding its Anderson, Ind., beverage plant with a new $72 million production line.
- The line will allow the plant to produce more Boost and Carnation Breakfast Essentials drinks in addition to the Nesquick and Coffee-Mate products it already makes.
- The plant currently employs around 700, and Nestle hasn't said how many jobs it expects the expansion to add.
Dive Insight:
This new production line is Nestle's latest investment in its facilities worldwide. This year alone, the company announced a new bottled water factory in the U.K., a product technology center in Ohio, state-of-the-art pathogen research labs in Switzerland and the addition of wind turbines at a California plant.