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Bel Brands Plans $100M New Cheese Factory

BROOKINGS, SD-The company will build a 170,000-square-foot manufacturing plant to literally make tons of Mini Babybel cheese.

By Robert Carr | Updated on February 01, 2012

BROOKINGS, SD-Bel Brands USA, a division of Paris-based Fromageries Bel, plans to spend $100 million to build a new cheese-making plant on a new industrial park here. The company, which manufactures and markets the Laughing Cow brand, will use this 170,000-square-foot plant to make its Mini Babybel snacking cheese.

The US arm of the firm is based in Chicago and has two existing plants in Leitchfield, KY and Little Chute, WI. With sales doubling in the past four years, the company started a search for a new plant site, considering locations in eight states including Iowa, Idaho and Michigan. Jones Lang LaSalle and TC Jacoby and Co. assisted the firm in the search, and helped select this 48-arcre site along 32nd Avenue, near the Interstate 29 corridor.

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