Utz doubles number of employees at Wachusett plant
Utz Quality Foods Inc., Hanover, Pa., recently celebrated its one-year anniversary by acquiring The Wachusett Potato Chip Co., Fitchburg, Mass., and announcing that the Wachusett plant more than doubled the number of its employees in 2012, from 32 to 67.
Utz purchased the Wachusett Potato Chip Co.’s Water Street facility, trucks and equipment in September 2011 and has made considerable investments in the plant, where it produces Utz and Wachusett Potato Chips and Utz Potato Stix.