A "nine-quarter streak of increased sales per square footage in Kroger stores nationwide" has helped the company create 20,000 new full- and part-time jobs, including 5,000 in the Cincinnati area, WCPO9 reports. The region has benefitted from this national trend not only through increased store hiring in the area, but also in the Cincinnati headquarters, where employment has doubled since 2002. For more, read the full story.
Also, Tennessee-based Avure Technologies – the "largest provider of ultra-high pressure systems to enhance material properties, form sheet metal, and pasteurize foods without heat or chemicals" – announced it is renovating a 50,000-square-foot facility at the Midd Cities Industrial Park in Middletown that its food division will use to produce high pressure processing (HPP) systems, Dayton Daily News reports. The facility, which is expected to be operational by the third quarter of 2013, will "house the company food division’s manufacturing, engineering, procurement and customer service operations," the article said. For more, read the full story.
Food industry brings jobs, innovation to Ohio
