Franklin speaking, Casa Grande plant is the cream of the crop
The size of the Casa Grande plant (it totals 90,000 square feet) is deceiving upon first view from the front; it’s not obvious how big it really is.
Produces nearly 52 million pounds of cream cheese annually
By Laurie Merrill | The Republic | azcentral.com
The facility for a Casa Grande manufacturer that bills itself as the world’s fastest-growing cream-cheese company has been nominated for 2015 Plant of the Year by a dairy magazine.
Franklin Foods Inc. is one of 11 dairy-processing plants across the country that voters can select in Dairy Foods magazine’s poll at dairyfoods.com.
The company, based in Delray Beach, Fla., has had a stake in Arizona since 2013, when it opened a 90,000-square-foot plant in Casa Grande. The plant employs 53 people. Franklin Foods also has a dairy plant in Enosburg Falls, Vt., which opened in 1899.
The plant in Casa Grande procures milk and cream from United Dairyman of Arizona and produces between 750,000 and 1 million pounds of cheese a week, according to the company. This surpasses the Vermont plant by about 10 percent.
