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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Tillamook opens first owned-and-operated facility outside of Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. () — An Oregon-headquartered dairy brand is expanding its reach on the East Coast. Tillamook County Creamery Association has announced the opening of its first owned-and-operated manufacturing facility outside of the Beaver State. A portion of Tillamook Ice Cream will now be produced in Decatur, Ill. Class action lawsuit accuses Grocery Outlet of deceptive pricing in Oregon stores According to the company, the new facility 'marks a key milestone' for the 116-year-old brand. 'This is an exciting step forward for our co-op, and we are energized by the new opportunities that the Decatur manufacturing plant opens for TCCA,' TCCA President and CEO David Booth said in the announcement. 'Decatur offers strategic access to our growing customer and consumer base, and we hope this new production facility will help enable Tillamook to become the ice cream of choice for consumers in the Eastern United States.' Salem career criminal sentenced for selling drug-infused 'Cocoa Puffs,' 'Cinnamon Toast Crunch' bars The company has reported that Tillamook Ice Cream is already the fastest-growing family-size brand of its kind in the U.S. With the addition of the Midwest facility, owners expect to produce another 15.5 million gallons of ice cream each year. Around 4.4 million new customers — including one million in 2024 alone — have purchased the family-size ice cream since 2021, according to TCCA. The association noted ice cream sales have grown by more than 13% in the past year, and a majority of the new customers reside on the East Coast. The Decatur manufacturing facility's opening has brought 50 new jobs. Tillamook plans to bring in more workers as production continues, and also work alongside officials to revitalize the Illinois city. Summer heat returns, builds around Portland this weekend The dairy brand isn't the only Oregon-founded company to recently announce expansion. Portland's The Sports Bra, which opened as the world's first women-only sports bar in 2022, has revealed it will open franchises in St. Louis, Boston, Las Vegas and Indianapolis. Meanwhile, other brands like Jollibee have opened their first Oregon location as part of their Pacific Northwest expansion. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
New Tillamook Ice Cream Plant Now in Production - Facility Will Produce 15.5 Million Gallons Annually at Full Capacity
The Decatur, Ill. Facility Marks Tillamook County Creamery Association's First Plant Outside of Oregon TILLAMOOK, Ore., June 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tillamook Ice Cream – the fastest-growing family size ice cream brand in the United States1 – is now officially in production at the new Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) manufacturing facility in Decatur, Ill. As TCCA's first owned-and-operated manufacturing site outside of Oregon, the production facility opening marks a key milestone in the 116-year-old farmer-owned co-op's national expansion. "This is an exciting step forward for our co-op, and we are energized by the new opportunities that the Decatur manufacturing plant opens for TCCA," said David Booth, president and CEO of TCCA. "Decatur offers strategic access to our growing customer and consumer base, and we hope this new production facility will help enable Tillamook to become the ice cream of choice for consumers in the Eastern United States." The new Decatur facility represents a significant investment in TCCA's growth strategy and expansion plans as demand for Tillamook products continues to rise across the country. Since 2021, 4.4 million new consumers have purchased Tillamook family size Ice Cream2, including more than one million new consumers purchasing in 2024 alone3 – driving Tillamook family size Ice Cream dollar sales growth by over 13% in a single year. More than half of those new consumers are from the Eastern United States5."Our Decatur plant is expected to deliver 15.5 million gallons of ice cream as production scales," said Mike Bever, executive vice president and chief supply chain officer of TCCA. "The Decatur plant is well equipped to serve our valued customers with increased production capacity, while driving supply chain efficiency from the plant to a growing footprint of national and regional retail outlets."Upon opening, the new Tillamook production facility has created 50 new jobs in the Decatur area, with plans to expand the workforce as production scales. The plant is also part of a broader City of Decatur neighborhood revitalization effort – transforming a formerly vacant manufacturing facility into a vibrant economic driver. "We are proud to welcome Tillamook to Decatur and to serve as a key location in the company's growing national presence," said Julie Moore Wolfe, mayor of Decatur. "The jobs being created and the co-op's early community support reflect the strong alignment between TCCA and our city's values. We look forward to continuing to work together as TCCA becomes an integral part of our thriving business community." In alignment with the co-op's commitment to community enrichment, TCCA is actively engaging with the Decatur community through local philanthropy with recent commitments, including a $25K donation that was matched by JP Cullen – the general contractor on the TCCA plant project – to deliver a total of $50K to support local Decatur initiatives including: $20,000 to the Decatur Park District to sponsor local youth recreation and community events like the Ice Cream Safari at the Scovill Zoo and Trees on the Tees $20,000 to support the food security efforts of the Good Samaritan Inn. The non-profit organization is expanding its urban food garden from one to five acres in 2025 to further bring fresh produce to those in need $5,000 to the Northeast Community Fund to support their food security efforts and sponsor their upcoming Farm to Fund event $5,000 to the Macon County Fair to support the livestock and open class shows "Decatur isn't just where we are making more ice cream — it's where we're building new community partnerships, supporting revitalization, and laying the groundwork for future growth," said Booth. In addition to ice cream, Tillamook is also the fastest-growing cheese and cream cheese brand in the country.6 In 2024, one in four American households purchased Tillamook products7. For more information about TCCA and Tillamook, please visit 1 Circana: POS, Total US - MULO, Family Size IC, >16oz-64oz, Brands >$30M, Calendar Year 2024 2 Circana: PAN, Total US - MULO, Tillamook Family Size IC, 16oz-64oz, Calendar Year 2021 - Calendar Year 2024 3 Circana: PAN, Total US - MULO, Tillamook Family Size IC, >16oz-64oz, Calendar Year 2023 - Calendar Year 2024 4 Circana: POS, Total US - MULO, Tillamook Family Size IC, >16oz-64oz, Calendar Year 2024 5 Circana: PAN, Total US - MULO, Tillamook Family Size IC, >16-64oz, Calendar Year 2023 - Calendar Year 2024 6 Circana: POS, Total US - MULO, Tillamook Natural Cheese, Dairy, Brands >$350M, Calendar Year 2024Circana: POS, Total US - MULO, Tillamook Cream Cheese, Brands >$3M, Soft & Brick Cream Cheese, Calendar Year 2024 7 Circana: PAN, Total US - MULO, Tillamook County Creamery, Calendar Year 2024 About Tillamook County Creamery Association Founded in 1909 as a farmer-owned cooperative, Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) is a Certified B Corporation® (B Corp™) and prides itself on its commitment to bringing to market the most consistent, best tasting, highest quality dairy products possible. Guided by the belief that everyone deserves real food that makes them feel good every day, Tillamook's® internationally recognized, award-winning cheese, as well as exceptional ice cream, butter, cream cheese, yogurt, sour cream and frozen meals, are made with unwavering values that never sacrifice or compromise quality for profit. TCCA is owned by a group of farming families, primarily based in Tillamook County, Oregon. TCCA operates production facilities in Tillamook and Boardman, Oregon, and Decatur, Illinois, and employs more than 1,100 team members. The Tillamook Creamery is the largest tourist attraction on the coast of Oregon and one of the most popular in the state, attracting more than one million visitors each year. 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Bloomberg
4 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Meta Invests in Nuclear to Fuel AI Ambitions
"Bloomberg Markets" follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today's guests; Dimensional Fund Advisors Chairman and Co-Founder David Booth, Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow and Lily Meir (Source: Bloomberg)
Daily Record
4 days ago
- Business
- Daily Record
South Lanarkshire Council secures £90k funding to plant new trees
The council's Removing Barriers to Tree Planting programme has been awarded the cash. Green-conscious South Lanarkshire Council will be planting new trees right across the community after securing some funding support. The council's Removing Barriers to Tree Planting programme has been awarded £90,000 to allow it to plant trees in key areas across South Lanarkshire. The grant which will run over a three-year period is part of the Future Woodlands Scotland (FWS) £450,000 fund which was awarded to seven community projects across Scotland's cities and towns The funding will allow the planting of trees at strategic locations working closely with Clyde Climate Forest to allow collaboration with partners including the Tree Council and Trees for Cities. David Booth, the council's Executive Director of Community and Enterprise Resources, has welcomed the vital support to help boost the authority's environmental credentials. He said: 'We are delighted that our funding bid to Future Woodlands Scotland for £90,000 over a three-year period has been successful. 'These funds will now allow us to buy trees and materials which we will then be able to plant in some of our local climate vulnerable communities. 'Planting trees, as well as enhancing the look and feel of our local communities, provide long term benefits as they grow and enrich the local biodiversity in our communities. 'This funding will allow us to tackle some of the key challenges we all face, from the climate and biodiversity crisis to declining health and well-being.' FWS, which is dedicated to creating and conserving woodlands across Scotland, selected the first seven projects to receive large grants of up to £100,000 from its Urban Forestry Programme Challenge Fund. *Don't miss the latest headlines from around Lanarkshire. Sign up to our newsletters here.
National Post
09-05-2025
- Sport
- National Post
Former Canucks bust a surprise addition to list of coaching candidates
Article content A new possibility to lead the Vancouver Canucks into their post- Rick Tocchet coaching era has emerged, and it's a name that may elicit a chuckle from Canucks fans: Marco Sturm. Article content Article content The former NHL forward has spent the past three seasons coaching the AHL's Ontario Reign; before that he was an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Kings. According to Vancouver hockey insider Irfaan Gaffar, Sturm has spoken with the Canucks about their NHL head-coaching job opening, vacated last month by Tocchet. Article content Article content Sturm last played in the NHL in 2011-12, a season that began with a six-game stint with the Canucks. It went badly. He was far from the second-line scoring threat he had once been and then-Canucks general manager Mike Gillis quickly moved on from the winger, trading him to the Florida Panthers — along with versatile but aging Mikael Samuelsson — and taking a bet on David Booth in return. Article content Booth, you may recall, was brought in to see if he could return to the outstanding power forward he had once been before concussions derailed him with the Panthers. Article content He is, of course, most remembered for the lines Canucks head coach John Tortorella landed about him: 'I thought our best forward was David Booth, which is good for him but not good for us,' and 'a weird dude.' Article content But Booth didn't hit much and is more emblematic of the decline years of the Gillis' era. Article content The Sturm trade is also memorable for the other guy in the deal: Steve Reinprecht, who the Canucks could afford to bury in the minors with his US$2 million contract. Article content Anyway, add Sturm to the list of Canucks coaching candidates: Manny Malhotra is a well-understood and well-discussed possibility, as is Adam Foote, Postmedia News has confirmed. Article content CHEK-TV's Rick Dhaliwal has reported that Todd Nelson and Luke Richardson, who both have NHL head-coaching experience, are on the list, and Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman resurfaced Mike Vellucci's name. Canucks GM Patrik Allvin and the team's president of hockey operations, Jim Rutherford, know him well from his days coaching the Pittsburgh Penguins' AHL squad. Article content Article content Is Sturm a realistic option? Coaches in his position are always looking for promotion to the NHL. The Canucks have hired two coaches in similar spots in the past decade to be their head coach: Willie Desjardins and Travis Green. Inevitably there's a budgetary element to these hires as much as a potential element: They may prove to be the next exciting thing but they also work cheap.
