Find All the Right Ingredients

The Valley’s successful food and beverage companies all use the same recipe. They start with low business costs. Add an abundant water supply. Then throw in an educated, technically skilled workforce, a central location, and an unbeatable lifestyle. It all adds up to the best location for growing food-related companies.

The Tennessee Valley is located right in the middle of America’s breadbasket. That means easy access to a wide variety of raw food products. In fact, the states within the Valley, which include Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia, are leading national producers of many food items. Three-fourths of the nation’s population lives within a day’s drive of the Tennessee Valley, including most of the major population centers in the Midwest and Northeast.

A population of 8.6 million people in the Valley ensures the availability of very well-regarded workers for virtually any operation. The majority of the region’s residents are within the prime work ages of 18 to 54.

Notable food and beverage companies in the Tennessee Valley

• ADM • American Yeast • Bryan Foods • Coca-Cola • ConAgra Foods • Coors Brewing Company • Fleischmann’s Yeast • Frito-Lay • General Mills • Hershey Foods Corporation • Kellogg • Kraft Foods • M&M/Mars • McKee Foods Corporation • Nestle • Pepsi • Perdue Farms Inc. • Procter & Gamble • Russell Stover • Sara Lee Corporation • Slim-Fast Foods Company • Sysco • Tyson Foods.

TVA has a strong record of success in supporting the growth of food and beverage companies with site selection, technical support, economic research, financial incentives, and expertise in energy use and industrial process improvement.

For more information, contact TVA’s food industry specialist:

Tim Tidwell
Phone: 865-673-2289
Fax: 865-673-2210
Cell: 865-310-7675
ttidwell@tva.com

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