Golden State Foods breaks ground for new Burleson manufacturing, distribution facility

GSF groundbreaking 

Golden State Foods broke ground Tuesday on its newest Burleson manufacturing and distribution facility.

A Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) grant offer of $900,000 was extended to Golden State Foods contingent upon the company investing more than $19 million and creating 150 new jobs in Texas. The entire project, which will involve new construction and state-of-the-art design and build out, is projected to exceed $70 million. Golden State’s southwest operations will be located in Burleson’s Highpoint Business Park. The company services more than 125,000 restaurants and stores on five continents from its 50 locations.

It will be GSF’s third Liquid Products facility in the United States and the sixth globally. GSF’s Liquid Products division develops an array of sauces, dressings, condiments, syrups and toppings for some of the largest QSR and retailers globally.

Among those in attendance were Mark Wetterau, Chairman and CEO, GSF; John Maguire, Corporate Vice President and President of Liquid Products, North America, GSF; Burleson Mayor Pro Tem, Dan McClendon and Rep. Roger Williams, R- Austin.

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Site Selection Group (DFW) was used for location selection, with Josh Bays as the lead.

Michael Langford with Orr and Associates represented the sellers, which were Burleson Highpoint Investments

Design Group Facility Solutions – Fort Worth is the general contractor, with Josh Bruton as the lead