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Article: Mexican canning business moves in: Expansion 'huge,' raises area's international profile.
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- AZ Daily Star
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- June 8, 2006
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Byline: Richard Ducote
Jun. 8--One of Mexico's largest canned-food companies landed in Tucson on Wednesday to establish its first U.S. manu-facturing plant at the former Slim-Fast building on the Southeast Side. Tucson economic leaders hailed the arrival of La Costena Foods as a milestone event for the area. The company plans to employ about 100 people initially when manufacturing begins next June. If manufacturing companies are the gold standard for economic development, La Costena, operating here as Arizona Canning Co. LLC, represents "platinum wrapped in diamonds" because it is a headquarters office for a foreign manufacturer, proclaimed Joe Snell, ...