General manager Brent Baillie said the company, the largest privately owned confectionery manufacturer in New Zealand, was expanding its warehouse, installing a new moulding machine and adding four new confectionery dryers.
The expansion and additions, covering 2100sq m, would cost $3million.
The expansion would boost production capacity from just above 2700 tonnes a year at present to 8000 tonnes a year.
"Our sales have exceeded our current capability and so there’s an expansion."
Product was stored off-site in Christchurch at present, but the company wanted to bring it all back under one roof to have more control.
He could not say whether the expansion would mean more jobs, but he believed it would create "sustainability" which would benefit the 68 full-time employees at the factory and the 32 part-time staff added during the Easter manufacturing period.
The project was about halfway through and was expected to be finished in November.
Everyone involved at the company was excited about what was happening, Mr Baillie said.
"It’s just been a pipe dream and now it’s all happening."
