Pleasant Prairie-based Fair Oaks Foods expanding into Iowa with new bacon facility

Pleasant Prairie-based Fair Oaks Foods is once again expanding, this time with the construction of a new fully cooked bacon facility in Davenport, Iowa. The new 150,000-square-foot facility will be located in the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center and is expected to cost $134 million. Operations at the plant are expected to start in early 2024 with an estimated 247 workers.

Fair Oaks Foods is a family-owned meat processing company and the eleventh largest Black-owned business in the U.S. The company is a supplier of custom meats to restaurant chains and food companies. Fair Oaks Foods currently occupies four buildings within LakeView Corporate Park in Pleasant Prairie.

Portage, Michigan-based The Austin Company will serve as the designer and builder for the project.

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“I am extremely excited to expand our business to the great city of Davenport,” said Michael L. Thompson, CEO and president of Fair Oaks Foods. “We look forward to a long-standing relationship with the Quad Cities community, the city and the state of Iowa. My dream is to build a long-standing ‘legacy’ family business. The opportunity that the city has extended to us is the right fit, at the right time, for Fair Oaks Foods. It will be a great opportunity for our people to live and thrive in this region.”

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