Food Plant of the Year 2016: SugarCreek brings home more than the bacon
Though SugarCreek started out as a bacon processor, its newest high-tech plant is poised for growth as consumers demand more sophisticated RTE food products.
Yes, bacon has lately become a trend or fad, leaping its way out of the breakfast frying pan into food creations where it would have seemed an unlikely ingredient just a few years ago. And, producing bacon is where SugarCreek got its start. But, under the leadership of forward-thinking Chairman/ CEO John G. Richardson, the company is bringing home the bacon itself in a big way.
SugarCreek, a 50-year-old company with about $600 million in annual sales, has set its sights on a billion dollars in annual sales by 2020, according to Lance Layman, VP business development. Key to this growth is the new SQF Level 3 production facility in Cambridge City, IN (CCI), which has the technology and flexibility to keep up with the latest trends in high-quality food products. Based on a variety of factors, Food Engineering selected the CCI facility as its 2016 Plant of the Year.