Vernon's factory where the joint of the farmer John’s hot dogs were soon to be launching millions of pounds of meat sticks for a rapidly growing Southern California snack company.
It will be the second manufacturing plant for Archer, Who must extend beyond his factory in San Bernardino, said managing director Eugene Kang.
Part of the Vernon factory that farmer John left in 2023 is completely renovated by Archer and will employ more than 200 people when it opened in September. The addition of the Vernon factory will cost around $ 30 million.
Archer takes control of the farmer John's transformation plant, said Kang, where farmer John cooked ham, sausages and hot dogs.
The farmer John provided meat for the famous Dodger dogs at the Dodger Stadium for decades, but could not conclude a new contract agreement with the Dodgers, and the farmer John Order to be the main Hot-Dogs supplier of the stadium in 2021.
The installation of Vernon.
(Pascal Shirley for Archer)
“I don't know exactly what happened between them and the dodgers,” he said, but “we are now the official snack of dodgers.”
The Dodgers recently signed a multi -year contract with Archer, MLB announced last month. The jerky sticks and archer meat are sold at Stadium Concession Stands, a satisfactory development for native Kang in southern California.
“As a child growing up, the Dodger dog was anchored in my childhood and my life,” he said.
He also developed a taste for jerks while storing shelves in the convenience stores of his family dispersed in the deserts in southern California. As a young man in a road trip with his aunt at the Grand Canyon, he fell in love with Jerky whom he sampered from a stand by the road.
The CEO of Archer and founder Eugene Kang with products.
(Archer)
Kang found the little jerky manufacturer near San Bernardino and began to meet the producer, an 80 -year -old man named Celestino “Charlie” Mirarchi who was near his retirement. Kang and his aunt bought Mirarchi's affairs in 2011 and used Mirarchi's recipe to build his own jerky empire.
Archer carried out a breakthrough in 2014 thanks to a partnership with Huy Fong Sriracha To create a jerky Sriracha STRIRACHA.
The new flavor drew the attention of certain large retailers, including Kroger and Spruts, and helped Archer extend his scope, said Kang. Among the 30,000 stores that sell Archer products today are Costco, Whole Foods Market, Walmart, Target, Albertsons and 7-Eleven.
Kang said that the company, which employs nearly 200, has increased a 90% increase in sales last year, mainly powered by meat sticks and will take nearly $ 500 million in revenues over the next 18 months.
Vernon's new factory, which will cost around 30 million dollars, will focus on sticks of beef and turkey, finally operating three teams per day producing 36 million pounds of meat sticks per year, Kang said.
Most of the supply of beef nourished with archer grass comes from Australia and New Zealand, the company said. Archer participates in the category of skin foods, rich in protein and practical snacks.
