Ameren : Chick-fil-A Provide Selects Missouri For New Distribution Heart

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO – Chick-fil-A Provide is opening a brand new market distribution heart in Maryland Heights, Missouri. The corporate is investing $16 million within the new facility, which can be used to serve greater than 40 Chick-fil-A® eating places within the area.

“Missouri is a prime location for main nationwide firms similar to Chick-fil-A Provide due to our state’s strategic place in the course of America,” mentioned Governor Mike Parson. “While you mix our logistical benefits with our low taxes, loyal workforce, and cutting-edge innovation in meals science, Missouri can compete with any state within the nation.”

Chick-fil-A Provide introduced its first full-scale distribution heart in 2020. The corporate is a subsidiary of Chick-fil-A, Inc., a number one restaurant chain with greater than 2,600 eating places throughout the U.S. Chick-fil-A Provide ensures these eating places have the meals and merchandise they want whereas staying on the cutting-edge of know-how for supply providers. The brand new facility in Missouri is the corporate’s fourth location within the U.S.

“Our latest funding within the St. Louis space offers us the chance to develop our enterprise and uniquely serve our franchise Operators, licensees, and their groups throughout the area,” mentioned Josh Grote, Government Director of Chick-fil-A Provide. “It is thrilling for us to broaden our operation and create jobs that we all know will appeal to distinctive expertise from Missouri’s numerous and expert workforce.”

Chick-fil-A Provide plans to create greater than 60 new jobs on the 100,000 sq. ft. distribution heart in Riverport Commerce Heart. Along with its deep labor pool, the St. Louis area has an extended historical past of innovation in agriculture and meals science – which performed a key function within the firm’s resolution to find in Maryland Heights.

“Chick-fil-A Provide is a good addition to the St. Louis area’s meals business, which is already a culinary hub for progressive firms,” mentioned Subash Alias, CEO of Missouri Partnership.

“Missouri is dwelling to just about 400 companies within the meals business, and we’re positioned inside 600 miles of 135+ million potential prospects. We have now the inspiration right here for Chick-fil-A Provide to achieve success, and we’re excited to welcome them to the state.”

“We’re thrilled Chick-fil-A Provide selected to find its latest distribution heart within the Ameren Missouri service territory,” mentioned Mark Birk, President and Chairman of Ameren Missouri. “This is only one extra instance of how the financial growth incentives offered by Ameren Missouri’s Sensible Vitality Plan make it extra enticing for warehouses and different massive companies to develop in our area, whereas benefiting our present enterprise neighborhood.”

Missouri Partnership labored with the next organizations to draw Chick-fil-A Provide to Maryland Heights, together with: The Missouri Division of Financial Improvement, Ameren, Larger St. Louis, Inc., and the St. Louis Financial Improvement Partnership.

“Having a nationwide model like Chick-fil-A spend money on St. Louis is one other large win for our metro,” mentioned Steven Pearce, Chief Enterprise Attraction Officer for Larger St. Louis, Inc. “St. Louis sits inside 500 miles of almost one-third of the nation’s inhabitants, and our extremely developed logistics infrastructure makes us the right location for the sort of distribution facility. We are going to proceed our efforts to develop our presence within the logistics sector, recognized as a progress space within the STL 2030 Jobs Plan.”

Chick-fil-A Provide plans to be operational in Missouri by the second half of 2023.

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