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Chocolatier Inks 150,000-SF Lease for West Coast Distribution

AMERICAN CANYON, CA-Barry Callebaut, the Switzerland-based owner of Brach's candies and a major supplier of chocolate to the confectionery industry, subleases three quarters of an existing 200,000-sf building in the Green Island Industrial Park here for its first West Coast distribution plant.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on March 20, 2005

AMERICAN CANYON, CA-Switzerland’s Barry Callebaut, the new owner of Brach’s candies and a major supplier of chocolate to the confectionery industry, has subleased 150,000 sf here for its first West Coast distribution plant. The Zurich-based company hopes to be up and running in an existing building on Commerce Way in the Green Island Industrial Park by this fall, city manager Mark Joseph tells GlobeSt.com.Barry Callebaut signed on for 9.5 years, the remaining term of the sublease. The sublessor is Golden State Vitners. The landlord is a valley investor group by the name of SDG Commerce. Mike Zolstra, Graden Travis and Sean Cooley represented Barry Callebaut in the transaction. None of the parties involved would discuss the negotiated lease rate, but the going rate for industrial space in the area is $0.55 per sf per month, triple net.The decision to open a West Coast distribution facility follows the company’s September acquisition of Brach’s, the seventh-largest US candy maker with sales last year of $340 million. Its search for space included sites from San Diego to Seattle. Zolstra tells GlobeSt.com that Callebaut decided on the American Canyon location because of its proximity to the Napa Valley and the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena. “It likes the connection between wine and chocolate,” he says.Barry Callebaut’s gross sales in fiscal 2004 were CHF$4 billion (US$3.4billion). The company has about 30 production sites and 9,000 employees in 22 countries in Europe, Africa, North America, Latin America and Asia. The company’s American Canyon facility is expected to employ 75 people initially and has the potential to employ as many as 300.

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