Rising consumer sales of Milk-Bone’s “Soft ’N Chewy” dog treats are prompting Big Hearts Pet Brands Inc. – who owns the Milk-Bone brand – to invest $52.6 million in upgrading its longstanding Buffalo plant.
The investment – most of which will be in the form of new processing equipment in the 550,000-square-foot Urban Street plant – not only cements Big Heart’s manufacturing presence in Buffalo but also represents one of the largest private sector-backed investments in the city’s East Side.
Buffalo was selected for the renovation project over other Big Heart/Milk-Bone plants in Topeka, Kansas and Decatur, Alabama…