Plant to bring 115 jobs to Louisville (Statesboro, Jefferson: sales, 2015, bill)

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These jobs will be sorely needed in Jefferson County

“We’re excited to be in this community and want to be a part of it,” said Bill Crider, the owner who was in town last week. Coastal Meats, he explained, is the company he started four and a half years ago in Statesboro focused on the export and domestic sales of poultry products.
“Coastal Processing in Louisville is going to be a poultry processing facility,” he said. “So we’re going to bring chickens in, they’re going to be heavy fowl, and we’ll process them from there into sales channels that support them.”
Crider is the son of Billy Crider, the founder of Crider Foods of Stillmore, the industry leader in canned chicken as well as a major producer of canned turkey, ham, pork and beef.
The Louisville plant will be a new business and will not be associated with the Stillmore plant.
“I love this business. I grew up in it,” Crider said last week in Louisville. “I’ve been in this business since I was a kid, catching chickens at the back dock. I’m very fortunate to have a dad who made me work in every position and I know what it takes to start something up, ease people into it and do it the right way. The association (with the Stillmore plant) is that he’s my dad. He’s been an incredible influence in my life, an incredible mentor to me and friend.”
For several months now the company has been quietly working with the City of Louisville and the former property owners to obtain the property, rehab the old textile facility that has sat dormant for around 15 years and ensure that the facility will have the services available it will need to operate.

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