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Nearly 200 new jobs coming to Winnebago county

eggLAKE MILLS – The “home runs” just keep coming for the smaller communities in North Iowa, this time with an announcement of of nearly 200 new jobs in Thompson that will pay $15.00 an hour with benefits, well-above the $9.50 an hour that Mason City considers “amazing” and an “over-achievement”.

Winn-Worth Betco (Winnebago-Worth Counties Betterment Council) announceed Tuesday an expansion of a local company, Rembrandt Enterprises Inc., 13780 450th Street, Winnebago County, Iowa.

“We are happy to release the information that Rembrandt Enterprises Inc. will construct a large-scale, egg processing plant to expand the distribution of Iowa-produced, egg-protein powder within the United States. This plant will include a large-scale pasteurizer, pasteurizing rooms, and both liquid and dried packaging equipment. Another notable aspect of this plant is the high-volume egg dryers. Rembrandt will be shaping the future of egg drying in the US through this increased capacity. This expansion project will also create nearly 200 new jobs at the Thompson location, and we are so proud to be a partner with them on this project,” said Teresa Nicholson, Executive Director of Winn-Worth Betco.

Construction on the new facility will begin immediately. Construction is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2015. Processing facility start-up is planned for January 2016. Rembrandt currently employs 134 at the Thompson facility. The new processing facility will employ an additional 197 people at start-up with nearly half of those new positions being professional positions and jobs which will require technical training and technical skills. The minimum starting wage for all new positions will be $15.00 per hour with benefits.

The Iowa Economic Development Authority approved an application for state tax credit assistance to the company for this project this afternoon. The Winnebago County Board Of Supervisors, this morning, approved a TIF (Tax Increment Financing) Rebate to the company.

Rembrandt Enterprises is a privately held, leading Agribusiness and Food Company headquartered in Spirit Lake, Iowa. The company is comprised of three businesses. The Pet Care business provides ingredients to leading pet food manufactures. The Farm Nutrients business provides Agronomy solutions directly to the farm. Finally, Rembrandt Foods is an egg-production business producing customized egg products for the food ingredient/food service industry, including the baking, mayonnaise, sauces, dairy and confectionary industries. Rembrandt Foods is one of the largest egg and egg ingredient producers in the world.

“This location at Thompson made sense for many reasons for our company,” according to Jeff Peterson, Chief Financial Officer, Rembrandt Enterprises Inc. “Rembrandt made a significant investment in Winnebago County and North Iowa when we purchased the Golden Oval facility back in 2009. Our company has continued to make constant improvements in that facility since that time. This latest expansion project is another showing of our commitment to our company’s growth, our local locations, our employees, and our customers. We look forward to working with Winnebago County and the local communities in the future as our business continues to grow and change.”

“We are happy to have Rembrandt investing in their Thompson facility for this project. Nearly 200 new jobs at this facility will have a tremendous impact on our area. We hope to see new residents living in our communities, new kids in the school districts, and we are excited about having new tax base from this project as well,” stated Terry Durby, Chairman, Winnebago County Board of Supervisors. “Now we need to get to work on finding people to fill those jobs and looking at our housing in the area for those people. This provides us with an opportunity to look at these items not only for Rembrandt, but for our other area businesses who have current job openings as well.”

Teresa Nicholson said, “This expansion for Rembrandt has come together very quickly and is exciting. We look forward to seeing this project take shape over the next year. This business provides good paying jobs and benefits to their employees and we are excited for the opportunity to have 197 new jobs here. This is the largest single number of jobs created at one time in our two-county area in the last 5 years, and very likely since the casino project was announced. We would like to congratulate Rembrandt Enterprises Inc. on their expansion and also would like to thank them for their continued investment in their location in Winnebago County.”

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