Invest NB, Office of the Premier, November 1, 2013 - Saint-Isidore
Oxford Frozen Foods Ltd. investing in New Brunswick
Oxford Frozen Foods Ltd. is investing $184 million to construct a new processing facility, develop wild blueberry fields and create up to 300 jobs on the Acadian Peninsula. The company will begin construction of a $50-million, 12,600-sq.-metre (140,000-sq.-ft.), processing facility in the Acadian Peninsula in the spring of 2014. The company will also invest in equipment and in the development of wild blueberry fields, creating up to 300 jobs over a 10-year period. From left: Nepisiguit MLA Ryan Riordon; Tracadie-Sheila MLA Claude Landry; Premier David Alward; John Bragg, founder, chair, co-chief executive officer and president of Oxford Frozen Foods Ltd.; Natural Resources Minister Paul Robichaud; Tracadie-Sheila Mayor Aldeoda Losier; and Miramichi Bay-Neguac MLA Serge Robichaud