MAPLE GROVE, MN-Krispy Kreme Doughnuts says it is opening two stores in Minnesota next year.The first store will be located here and expected to open in the spring. The second store will be in the Mall of America in Bloomington, and it should open in the early summer of 2002. Glazed Investments, the company with the franchise rights for Minnesota’s Krispy Kreme stores, has said it plans toopen eight more stores in the next five years.

The glazed doughnuts have developed quite following — if previous openings are any indication, the openings are expected to draw throngs of customers.

To serve the Twin Cities, other midwestern markets, as well as the western half of North America, Winston-Salem, NC-based Krispy Kreme Doughnutssays it has an option to purchase about 34 acres in Effingham, IL with plans to build a new 187,000-sf manufacturing and distribution facility.

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