CHEROKEE, Iowa (AP) _ A long-closed meat processing plant in northwest Iowa has
been sold, and its new owners hope to start production in January.
Cherokee County economic development director Bill Anderson says Iowa Food
Group hopes to hire 100 people initially and then increase that to 500 workers
as the business grows. County records say Iowa Food Group paid $2.35 million for
the Cherokee plant.
Arkansas-based Tyson Foods closed the plant in September 2014, taking 450 jobs
with it. Tyson held onto its lease and weathered criticism that it was holding
the county hostage economically. Tyson officials declined to comment about the
plant’s purchase.
Lawyer Mack Zimmerman represents Iowa Food Group, and he says the corporation
is composed mostly of Texas investors he wouldn’t name.
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