Irvine’s Golden State Foods, one of the largest distributors to McDonald’s Corp. and one of Orange County’s largest privately held companies, is building a North Carolina warehouse that’s set to employ as many as 225 workers.
The 133,000-square-foot distribution center is set to supply about 500 McDonald’s restaurants in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, according to the News & Observer newspaper.
The warehouse is set to be completed in 2009.
Golden State is set to receive local property tax breaks valued at $100,000 during five years but no state incentives, according to the paper.
The company is the largest liquid-products supplier and third-largest beef supplier to McDonald’s in the U.S., providing the chain with hundreds of products, including dressings, pancake syrup and ketchup. It services roughly a quarter of McDonald’s in the U.S.
It counts yearly sales of about $3 billion.
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