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Dorada Poultry Announces Plans to Open in Ponca City, OK
02.09.2010 12:13 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Dorada Poultry of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma today announced it will occupy the former 180,000 square foot Tyson Foods facility located at 2000 Hall Boulevard in Ponca City, Oklahoma. The plant, which is scheduled to become operational in mid-2011, will provide chicken products to McDonald’s restaurants and is expected to employ approximately 350 employees, five days per week, 24 hours a day.
Dorada Poultry is a joint venture between the principals of Lopez Foods, Inc. (LFI) of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the nation’s largest Hispanic-owned meat manufacturing company, and Tyson Foods, Inc. of Springdale, Arkansas, one of the world’s largest processors and marketers of chicken, beef and pork products.
«We are proud to become members of the Ponca City business community and look forward to becoming a model of corporate citizenship,» said Dorada Poultry Chairman and CEO Ed Sanchez. «With an anticipated economic impact of $7 million per year in payroll, we will make a major economic contribution to the region where our employees will live, work and play. We want our workforce to be proud to call Dorada Poultry their employer.»
«This innovative venture will enable us to expand Tyson’s involvement in providing a reliable supply of safe, consistent quality chicken that meets McDonald’s high standards,» said Donnie Smith, president and chief executive officer of Tyson. «We look forward to supporting Dorada Poultry’s production of great food for a very important customer.» An economic impact model developed by the Ponca City Development Authority, (PCDA) forecasts the Dorada Poultry plant will contribute $217 million to the Ponca City community over the next ten years.
«Projects of this magnitude provide not only significant employment opportunities, they also reach deep within a community,» said PCDA Executive Director David Myers, referring to the 350 jobs projected for the project. «This is an extremely important project for Ponca City and we could not have asked for a better result,» he added.
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