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MD JOBS: Cardin to Get Scoop at Nestlé Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Company
Senator to visit originator of “Rocky Road” and “Cookies ‘n’ Cream” during latest stop on “Made in Maryland” jobs tour
Friday, August 29 at 2:00PM, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, will tour the Laurel Operations Center of the Nestlé Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Company, the largest of the company’s six U.S. ice cream production facilities. Nestlé’s Laurel plant employs more than 800 people and produces more than 120 Dreyer’s products like Edy’s Grand, Haagen-Dazs, Skinny Cow and Nestle ice cream and frozen snacks.
“Nestlé’s Laurel Operations Center represents one of the most delicious parts of our state’s economic activity,” said Senator Cardin. “The company’s sustained investment in the area in the past decade represents a key part of the Route 1 revitalization effort. And its recent growth underscores just how sweet it can be to do business in Maryland.”
WHAT: Senator Cardin to Visit Nestlé Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream
WHEN: Friday, August 29, 2014 at 2:00PM
WHERE: Nestlé Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream
9090 Whiskey Bottom Road, Laurel, MD
HOW: Press RSVP to Tim Zink, tim_zink@cardin.senate.gov
“From Volvo Truck Group to Paul Reed Smith Guitars, Flying Dog Brewery and many others, it has been tremendously helpful to for me to listen to the needs of local businesses and take real ideas back to Washington. The federal government should be a partner, not an obstacle, helping to assist these great companies as they strive to be the best and most innovative in their field,” Senator Cardin said. “’Made in Maryland’ is my way to highlight the diverse products being produced in our great state and companies that are reinvesting in their employees and our local communities.”