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Article: Banking on berries; New Craisin factory could boost Wisconsin Rapids
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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For seven years, the residents of Wisconsin Rapids have watched
the city's job market shrink as the paper mills that dominated the
area economy slashed their payrolls.
But as Ocean Spray breaks ground today on the construction of a
$50 million dried cranberry factory, city officials are hoping for
the start of a new chapter of economic growth.
"This is the push we needed to fully get our arms around a
redirection," said Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Mary Jo Carson.
The factory is scheduled to be completed in September 2008 and
will produce Craisins, Ocean Spray's line of dried, sweetened
cranberries. It is expected to employ about 50 workers and may add
another 50 in a future expansion.
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