Moments in the Making: Building our future in Sioux Falls

Our team made a special trip to Sioux Falls, South Dakota this week to host an open house and reveal the sign for our new downtown office.

The new office will house approximately 50 of our team members who are directly supporting the construction of the company’s new Asian-style food production facility at Foundation Park. The 12,000-square-foot office offers team members a modern work area, complete with collaborative works spaces, conference rooms and a commercial kitchen capable of hosting sampling events with customers. 

“Today represents more than the opening of a new office — it’s a bold step into the future and a meaningful investment in the Sioux Falls community,” said Brian Schiegg, our CEO. “Our team here is focused on launching a state-of-the-art food production facility that will accelerate the growth of our bibigo and Pagoda brands and deliver solutions to our foodservice customers.” 

During the event, the company also announced its membership with the Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce and its commitment of $250,000 to Forward Sioux Falls, a joint venture between the Chamber and the Sioux Falls Development Foundation that serves as the programmatic conduit for multiple economic and workforce development initiatives in support of regional economic development.

In November, CJ Schwan’s broke ground on its 142-acre site at Foundation Park, where a new production facility is currently under construction. After about 55,000 hours of work, construction crews have completed the placement of most of the facility’s walls and are working to enclose the production space by the end of the year. So far, nearly $75 million in projects have been awarded to local contractors. 

Scheduled to open in 2027, the plant will produce dumplings and egg rolls. The new facility will include two state-of-the-art food production lines and room for expansion. The facility will also feature a wastewater treatment plant, warehouse and distribution center, shipping and receiving docks, and additional office space. 

Celebrating our new distribution center in Salina, Kansas

We recently had a lot of fun earlier this month at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for our new refrigerated distribution center in Salina, Kansas.

The event was held at our pizza production facility, where we were joined by Gov. Laura Kelly, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann and several community leaders to help us celebrate the occasion.

The new distribution center provides a centralized location to store and transport the foods we make at facilities throughout the United States, including the Red Baron® and Tony’s® pizzas made in Salina. 

Here are some interesting facts about the new distribution center:

• It's now the tallest building in Salina at 144 feet.
• The new building adds 140,000 square feet of distribution center space to our overall campus in Salina. This brings the total distribution center space to about 245,000 square feet. The entire campus exceeds 1 million square feet. 
• Popular brands that pass through the facility include Red Baron, Tony's and bibigo foods.
• Construction began in 2023 and was completed earlier this year.
• The facility includes a 38,000-pallet-position racking system with three automated pallet cranes, 12 loading docks and office space.

The new distribution center supports a much larger project that we completed in 2023, when we held a grand-opening for a new 400,000-square-foot manufacturing space. Overall, the two projects resulted in the addition of 225 jobs in the Salina community.