Tag: Procter & Gamble

A West Virginia official says Procter & Gamble’s planned factory in Berkeley County will be bigger than originally envisioned.

The maker of Tide detergent and Charmin bathroom tissue announced in February that the $500 million plant in the Tabler Station Business Park near Martinsburg would employ 700 workers when it opens in 2017.

Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette told the state Economic Development Authority’s board on Thursday that the company now plans to employ about 1,100 people at the nearly 460-acre site. Plans call for a building of 4.3 million square feet, more than four times the original projection.

Burdette said the amount of the investment and number of jobs may increase even more.

Groundbreaking is expected in early fall.

  Procter & Gamble plans to invest $500 million in a West Virginia manufacturing facility slated to open in 2017.

In a news release Tuesday, the multinational manufacturer said it expects to create 700 permanent jobs at the planned facility in Berkeley County, near Tabler Station outside Martinsburg.

Another 1,000 temporary construction positions are expected.

The Cincinnati, Ohio-based company hasn’t announced which brands will be produced there.

Its products include personal care, household cleaning, laundry detergents, prescription drugs and more. The company had about $83 billion in sales in the 2014 budget year, and 23 brands have annual sales of $1 billion to $10 billion each.

The plant will be Procter & Gamble’s 30th in the United States, and the second built in the country since 1971.