Chickamauga-based Old Mill Kettle Corn will start offering its products in retail stores across the nation through a partnership with Heartland brands, a subsidiary of McKee Foods, company founders announced Tuesday.
“We’ve signed a strategic partnership with Heartland brands,” co-founder Mike Proctor said. “They have the exclusive right to distribute our products.”
Old Mill Kettle Corn is rapidly expanding their operations and plan to use McKee’s distribution network to deliver Old Mill Kettle Corn products to grocery stores throughout the Southeast.
They’re increasing their production capability from 800,000 units a year to 6.5 million a year, Proctor said, and plans to hire an additional 15 people — doubling their current employees.
Shelly Bradbury joined the Times Free Press as a business reporter in January 2013, after starting with the paper as a general assignment intern in July 2012. She is from Houghton, New York, and graduated from Huntington University in Huntington, Indiana, with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and minor in management. Before moving to Tennessee, Shelly previously interned with The Goshen News, The Sandusky Register and The Mint Hill Times. Outside the newsroom, Shelly enjoys ...
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