From Tombstone Pizza to Nature's Path Cereal

"Nature’s Path Foods Inc., a Canadian breakfast food producer, will get a $250,000 grant from the state for its new facility in Sussex, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Wednesday.

Nature’s Path has acquired the former Kraft Tombstone Pizza plant and will convert it to an organic cereal manufacturing facility. Over the next 18 months, the company plans to invest about $25 million in the plant.

The Commerce Department grant will be used to train at least 100 employees on new equipment and processes. Nature’s Path plans to create a minimum of 159 jobs in Sussex over the next year, according to Doyle.

Kraft closed the pizza plant at W227-N6088 Sussex Road last year, eliminating 300 jobs there. The closing was part of a larger cost-cutting program that Kraft undertook in 2006. Production from the Sussex plant was moved to other Kraft plants in Little Chute and Medford, adding 80 to 90 jobs at those locations."

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