Food & Beverage
Campbell to Invest $50 Million in Camden Headquarters to Fuel Next Chapter of Growth
| Campbell
January 18, 2023Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) today announced plans to consolidate its Snacks offices in Charlotte, N.C. and Norwalk, Conn. into its headquarters in Camden. Over the next three years, the company plans to invest approximately $50 million to enhance its Camden facilities to drive greater creativity, collaboration and career development, as well as to accommodate more than 1,600 employees that will …
EAD Engineering opens U.S. Northeast Regional Office in New Jersey
| Press Release
January 17, 2023Newark, NJ — Choose New Jersey, the state’s leading nonprofit economic development organization, announced that global engineering consulting and project management leader EAD Engineering, Inc. has expanded its operations with the opening of its northeastern U.S. regional office in Parsippany, New Jersey. “Choose New Jersey is excited to welcome EAD Engineering to New Jersey,” said Wesley Mathews, President & CEO of …
World’s largest vertical strawberry farm opens in Jersey City
| NJBIZ
May 19, 2022Controlled environment agriculture company Oishii has opened the world’s largest vertical strawberry farm at the old Anheuser-Busch factory in Jersey City, growing strawberries five rows deep in the retrofitted 74,000-square-foot facility. The expanded growing capacity will allow the company to decrease the sticker shock on its berries, which until May 18 sold for $50 per 11-pack of medium berries at …
Rutgers Researchers Partner with Cultivated Meat Company to Create Sustainable, Environmentally Friendly, Low-Cost Meat
| Rutgers
April 19, 2022A pair of Rutgers researchers are teaming up to combat climate change and worldwide hunger at the same time. Yong Mao, associate research professor and lead biologist in the Laboratory for Biomaterials Science at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, and Joseph Freeman, professor, director of the Musculoskeletal Regeneration Laboratory, and graduate program director of biomedical engineering in Rutgers School …
Wining and dining: How top officials showed site selectors the Hub — and N.J. — is the place to be
| ROI-NJ
October 15, 2021The six leading members of the Site Selectors Guild — the group that represents the most influential site selectors in the world — already were impressed with New Jersey by the time they entered the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center on Monday night. A day of meetings at the Heldrich Hotel had shown them a lot of what the state has to …
Choose New Jersey Announces Expansion of Geoponica Greens in New Jersey
| Press Release
August 4, 2021Indoor vertical farming is coming to Hamilton Township, near state capital of Trenton (Newark, New Jersey) – Choose New Jersey is pleased to announce Geoponica Greens, an indoor hydroponics vertical farm business, is expanding its existing operations in New Jersey to Hamilton Township this fall. Based in Chesilhurst, New Jersey, Geoponica Greens is introducing indoor vertical farming to the historic …
Milestone moment: Newark Working Kitchens to deliver 1 millionth meal today
| ROI-NJ
June 11, 2021A unique win-win program has kept Newark restaurants open while helping to feed those in need. In April 2020 — at a time when the pandemic was taking hold in the state, leaving many to wonder where their next paycheck and their next meal were coming from — Audible announced it was donating $1 million to create Newark Working Kitchens, a unique meal …
Oatly is valued at $10 billion in New York IPO
| CNN Business
May 20, 2021London (CNN Business)—Fast-growing Swedish oat milk brand Oatly is headed for a splashy New York IPO that will test investor demand for companies that make plant-based foods. The company, which will list on the Nasdaq on Thursday, priced its shares at $17 each, giving it a valuation of $10 billion and raising over $1.4 billion from the sale of new and existing equity. Oatly, …
Smorgasburg to Open in Jersey City This Month in First Expansion Outside of NYC, LA
| Eater NY
May 10, 2021The waterfront-facing food market opens on May 29. Smorgasburg is headed across the Hudson. The popular outdoor food market, which started as a flea market in Williamsburg nearly 12 years ago, is preparing to open in Jersey City later this month, co-founder Eric Demby confirms. The expansion marks the company’s first location outside of New York City or Los Angeles, and first …
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