Post Holdings said it计划花费高达1.1亿美元来扩大其谷物生产能力at a Nevada facility that serves the West Coast.
蜂蜜束燕麦，鹅卵石和大谷物背后的圣路易斯公司表示，拟议的扩建将为该公司提供额外的生产量，解决能力限制以更好地满足消费者需求，并降低运输成本，从而更有效地为西海岸的客户服务。
The Sparks, Nevada facility, which will create as many as 40 new jobs, is projected to be completed in 2025.
During the company’s first-quarter earnings call in February,首席执行官罗伯特·维塔尔（Robert Vitale）说consumption for its U.S. branded cereal products “continues to run ahead of pre-COVID levels by nearly 2%." He noted that its market share was just under 20%. A bright spot for Post continues to be Pebbles.
The popular Pebbles has been an anomaly in an otherwise downtrodden cereal market, grabbing the most market share out of any brand in 2021 and recording eight straight years of growth, according to data由Post今年早些时候提供。
Post Consumer Brands, which also houses Post’s Better Oats oatmeal, Malt-O-Meal as well as its cereals among other offerings, has nine owned manufacturing facilities in North Carolina, Michigan, Arkansas, Utah, Ohio, Nevada, Ontario and two in Minnesota. Its Utah and North Carolina locations are the only new cereal production facilities it has built since 2000,该公司在其网站上说。
植物添加似乎是最新的邮政建筑项目。去年，它announced plans to spend $86 million to constructa new 215,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in West Jefferson, Ohio. At the time, the company said the facility will likely produce protein drinks for BellRing Brands. The company剥离了80％的所有权in March to Post shareholders.
整个谷物一直是大流行期间的受益人之一，因为人们花更多的时间在家吃饭。需求预计将继续。Statista estimated数据显示，这一数字预计在2024年将增加到2024年的2.9亿。
The plant expansion is as much a bet that demand for its portfolio of cereals will continue as it is to increase efficiencies throughout its supply chain, saving money in the process.
西海岸有3440万人居住，约占美国人口的11％根据美国人口普查数据，Post在那里有一个庞大的市场基础。毫无疑问，CPG希望确保它可以更好地满足不断变化的消费者食欲，并与General Mills和Kellogg等庞然大物竞争。
The food sector has been undergoing a rapid pace of expansion as companies such as Post increase output to set the stage for future demand.
Nestlé plans to spend $675 millionon a facility in Arizona to make creamers for its Coffee mate, Coffee mate Natural Bliss and Starbucks brands.
MondelēzInternational宣布将invest $122.5 million over three years to boost capacityat its Richmond, Virginia, location where it makes Oreos, andJ.M. Smucker committed $1.1 billion在阿拉巴马州建造一个新的制造设施和配送中心，以生产其Smucker的不可监测的三明治。
And eight months afterannouncing a 70,000-square-foot expansion到其位于伊利诺伊州布卢明顿的制造中心，费雷罗本周宣布高达2.144亿美元的投资to further expand the still-under-construction plant.
