Food manufacturers cook up recipe for growth - Dayton Business Journal:

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Pizza consumption has grown 3 percent to 6 percent each saidBill Mackin, president of MaMa To meet demand, the frozen pizza maker has doubled employment in the past year to about 330 MaMa Rosa’s is one of many local food manufacturers. And unlikr other manufacturing sectors, such as the automobile the food manufacturing outlook remains The food industry has ahealthy long-term outlook, accordinf to an report from June 2008.
The bureayu only forecasts a 500 jobdeclin — less than 1 percent statewide from 2004 through 2014, as employment gains in slaughteringb and bakery balance losses in dairy and Ohio’s estimate mirrors the federal government’s, whichg expects overall wage and salary employment in food manufacturing to experience little or no change untio 2016, according to a industry Presently, there are more than a dozen food makers in the Dayton area, according to Dayton-based shifted its Indiana kettlw chip operations to Dayton in late 2007. The company, whichj employs about 240 people, saw revenue increase to $50.56 million in 2007, up from $45 millionm in 2006.
sales last year were about the sameas $50 million, and the company is projecting a $4 milliobn bump to $54 million for 2009. the company had to make some changes to keep its bottommline healthy. Last year, Mike-sell’s initiated a salary freeze to keep costs down and is now leasintg its vehicles instead of buying As far as cuttingvemployees goes, David Ray, chie executive officer, said the company has actuallh hired a few people in the last couplre years. Nationally, food manufacturers experienced steady sales growth from 1997to 2006.
From 2000 to annual food spending per personh increased 18 percent fromabout $5,160 to During that time, several food companiea boosted Dayton-area operations, mainly in Clark County. grew its Springfields facilityby 65,000 square feet in late — a division of Dallas-based — boughf a 69,000-square-foot warehouse in 2003, Pizza box , bought a 79,000-square-foot industriapl facility in 2005 and addex more than 100,000 square feet between 2002 and 2008. But more spaced does not necessarily meanmore jobs, and company officials could not be reachedf to provide workforce data.
Nationally, despited operational growth, food manufacturing employment droppedd during the 1997 to2006 period, from 1.5 millionj workers in 1997, to 1.47 million. This could be from increaseed automation throughtechnological investments, whic h continues to rise, according to the . Despitd recent expansions locally, Ohio’s food manufacturing segmen t took arecent hit, bucking the conventionap wisdom that food-related markets are recession