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OAKWOOD, Ga. (AP) -- King's Hawaiian will expand its bakery in Georgia, investing $85 million and hiring more than 160 new employees.
The privately owned company based in Los Angeles announced Tuesday that it would construct a 150,000-square-foot building across the street from its existing production plant in Oakwood, northeast of Atlanta. The company says the new plant, scheduled to open in fall 2023, will allow it to increase production ìsignificantly.
King's Hawaiian was founded in 1950 in Hilo, and operated in Honolulu before opening a bakery in Torrance, Calif., in 1977 and eventually shifting all business to the mainland. The Georgia plant was opened in 2010 to improve distribution of the company's breads on the East Coast and added a fourth production line in 2020 at a cost of about $30 million.