In a region that has seen job losses, a leading snack food producer has
occupied an abandoned factory and created jobs. The second-generation
manufacturer says the snack food industry is on the upswing.
According to excerpts from the story:
The toasty, cheesy smell that wafts
from a snack food maker soon will fill a former auto-parts factory.
DeDinas Franzak Enterprises, doing business as Cheeze Kurls Inc.
recently purchased the Southfield-based Lear Corp.'s 92,000-square-foot
plant at 2915 Walkent Drive NW. Production of cheese
curls, balls, puffs, popcorn and onion rings is expected to shift to
the new, larger site in August or September. The company is now located
at 3711 Dykstra Drive NW. The Walkent plant was vacated after Lear
moved its production of auto-adjusting seat tracks to Mexico last fall.
The purchase more than doubles the second-generation firm's space. Amid
a struggling economy, there's no shortage of cheese-coated fingers,
company leaders said Tuesday.
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