Stampede Meat announces New Mexico expansion

New Mexico facility will employ almost 1,300

Stampede Meat, Inc., has announced it will be expanding to New Mexico, the company's first expansion outside its home state of Illinois.

The company will invest more than $36 million in renovating a former Tyson plant in Sunland Park, New Mexico. The facility is expected create up to 1,295 food processing and manufacturing jobs over the next five years.

"Stampede has been at capacity on some critical lines for a number of months," Stampede Meat CEO and president Brock Furlong says. "Starting this fall, this will allow Stampede to grow with a significant investment in cook capacity and new capabilities to continually play a more critical rol as our customers look for more turn-key solutions."

Stampede Meat is headquartered in Bridgeview, Illinois. The company processes and distributes portioned, marinated and cooked beef, chicken, and other protein products for restaurants, retail, home delivery and other channels.

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Casey Laughman is the former Editor in Chief of Food Engineering magazine. He has almost two decades’ experience as a writer and editor for mainstream and trade publications. He spent several years as a writer and editor for two news services before becoming the editor of a legal publication and managing editor of a trade magazine that covered the commercial facilities market.