High Liner Foods, a publicly owned frozen seafood processor and marketer, announced on Tuesday it will expand its production in Newport News. The action means an investment of $6.6 million and creation of 57 new jobs at its facility in the city, which formerly was Icelandic USA. High Liner acquired Icelandic in 2011.
Gov. Bob McDonnell announced High Liner Foods' expansion in a prepared statement on Tuesday. McDonnell said High Liner Foods will "increase productivity via process improvements and upgrades" for its facility off Enterprise Drive near Fort Eustis. The governor's statement said Newport News beat Georgia and South Carolina, which were courting High Liner Foods.
McDonnell called High Liner Foods "a strategic economic engine for the Hampton Roads region, employing more than 400 and representing an existing capital investment of more than $60 million."
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