Candy maker Mars planning US$100M upgrade of Kansas plant
by The Associated Press
The expansion will add 70 full-time workers making M&M's and Snickers
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Mars Inc. is planning a $100 million expansion of its candy-making facility in Kansas.
The company disclosed the deal July 15 in advance of a Topeka economic development meeting. The development comes a little more than a year after the New Jersey-based company opened its $270 million plant south of Topeka, where M&M’s and Snickers are made. It was the company’s first new plant in 35 years.
After work on the 90,000-square-foot expansion wraps up in late 2016, the company will add 70 full-time workers to the 200 already working in the city.
Mars is receiving economic development incentives. Mars hasn’t determined which candies it will make there.
