Blue Buffalo comes to Indiana bringing 165 jobs
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Blue Buffalo is coming to Indiana and bringing along 165 new jobs.
Blue Buffalo is a pet food maker. They announced a new manufacturing facility in Richmond.
The Connecticut based company says it’s investing more than $100 million to create a production and distribution center.
The facility will be located on Industries Road.
According to the release, it will cover 89 acres.
“This is a very big day for Blue Buffalo,” said Chairman and Founder Bill Bishop. “This new, state of the art addition to our manufacturing network will complement our facility in Missouri. We expect to further increase our internal production capacity and now will have two of the most modern manufacturing facilities in the pet food industry. Additionally, we plan to open a state of the art R&D facility on our premises. We are also very proud of our plan to create over 160 full time jobs and look forward to being an upstanding partner in the Richmond community.”
This will be Blue Buffalo’s second plant in the U.S.
The company plans to break ground on the facility later this year.