Ferrero to Create 80 New Jobs with $90M Brantford Expansion and Provincial Investment

The Province of Ontario is investing up to $11 million in Ferrero Canada Ltd. to expand its facilities and diversify product offerings, which will boost productivity and create 80 new jobs in Brantford while retaining over 1,000 positions.

Jeff Leal, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, made the announcement October 11th in Brantford, where Ferrero Canada has started a major expansion project.

With support from Ontario's Jobs and Prosperity Fund, Ferrero Canada’s $90-million expansion project will:

• Build a new cocoa bean processing plant
• Increase manufacturing capacity for Nutella & Go
• Implement new processes to manufacture new Tic Tac products
• Install a new wastewater treatment system

Ferrero is a family-owned company and the third-largest chocolate manufacturer in the world. It manufactures four main product lines at its Brantford facility: Nutella, Nutella & Go, Tic Tac and Ferrero Rocher.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ferrero.ca