Pepperidge Farm celebrates 60 years of baking in Downers Grove, Ill.
Current and former employees joined together to celebrate the 60th anniversary for Pepperidge Farm’s bakery in Downers Grove, Ill. “Pepperidge Farm opened the plant in 1953, as part of its plans to develop its business in the Midwest, as historically its sales were concentrated in the Northeast,” said plant manager Rob Harrison. “That certainly worked. The Midwest and Great Lakes region is now one of the top-performing regions, and the team is proud to contribute to this growth.”
The Downers Grove factory bakes more than 36,100 tons of bread, rolls, English muffins and stuffing each year and employs more than 300 people from the local area. Harrison says that through the decades the site had continued to grow and evolve to keep pace with changing consumer tastes, technological developments in baking and growing demand for Pepperidge Farm’s portfolio of top-quality bakery products in the Midwest.