Frito-Lay North America Inc. is getting up to $4 million in tax credits and exemptions from Connecticut as part of a $38 million expansion of a distribution center in northeast Connecticut”™s “quiet corner.”
Frito-Lay has its main office in Plano, Texas, and is a subsidiary of Purchase, N.Y.-based PepsiCo Inc.
The Killingly plant employs more than 600 people. Frito-Lay is upgrading the warehouse with unspecified new technologies for material handling and delivery, while also reducing its environmental footprint.
“Frito-Lay, with facilities all across the country, could have made this investment in any number of locations, but it chose Connecticut,” said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, in a prepared statement released by his press office. “I think this speaks volumes about what we”™re doing here to improve the business environment.”
The company undertook a $66 million expansion project of the Killingly plant in 2010, adding more than 70,000 square feet and installing new machinery and equipment. A year later, the plant became Connecticut”™s first existing manufacturing plant to earn LEED Gold status for its green design and construction features and water and energy reduction programs.
