KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Mars Inc. is planning a new, $100 million candy-making facility in Kansas that will be built near where its first new plant in 35 years began churning out sweets last year.
The company disclosed the deal Wednesday in advance of a Topeka economic development meeting. The development comes a little more than a year after the New Jersey-based company opened a $270 million plant south of Topeka, where M&M’s and Snickers are made.
After work on the 90,000-square-foot facility wraps up in late 2016, the company will add 70 full-time workers to the 200 already working in the city. Mars said in an email statement that the new facility, which is receiving economic development incentives, was designed to “add capacity.” The company hasn’t determined which candies it will make there.
