Pineland Farms buying former Grants Dairy
Pineland Farms Inc., Maine’s largest cheesemaker, said it plans to consolidate its current cheese production operations in New Gloucester and Mars Hill at the former Grants Dairy in Bangor.
The Bangor Daily News reported that the pending $115 million sale to Bob Evans Foods of Mars Hill-based Pineland Farms Potato Co. prompted the move, as Pineland’s Mars Hill cheese plant is located at the potato company.
Erik K. Hayward, senior vice president at the Libra Foundation, the Portland-based nonprofit business incubator that owns Pineland’s dairy company, told the BDN Libra plans to spend up to $5 million renovating the plant, and create up to 50 jobs.
“[Milk Street] is a strategic location, only a couple of miles from the highway. When you are dealing with milk and other dairy products, transportation is a key element,” Hayward told the BDN. “If you were to draw a 50-mile circle around Bangor, you would probably touch on 90% of the dairy operations in the state.”
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