Glendale Star 07-18-2019

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Vol. 75 No. 29

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Swire Coca-Cola to double Glendale facility BY MAXIMO AGUILAR LAWLOR Glendale Star Staff Writer

Swire Coca-Cola will double its Glendale sales and distribution center to 300,000 square feet by early 2020. Swire Coca-Cola is spread across 13 western states and has 11 facilities in Arizona with over 2,000 employees. Since the last expansion in 2016, Swire Coca-Cola of Glendale has provided more than 100 new jobs. With the upcoming expansion, another 50 jobs are anticipated. This expansion has been in talks since the company purchased the surrounding land in 2016. And in March, it started bottling Monster Energy. Swire Coca-Cola sales center manager Beau Chandler said

the new partnership prompted the Glendale expansion. “Monster is a power brand here in Arizona. It has great market shares, great growth and great strength,” Chandler said. “We partnered in March with (Monster Energy), which really propelled this project and put everything on hyperspeed to get this done. The sense of urgency became immediate because of the overwhelming need for space now, so that’s where this project became a top priority for the market.” But Monster Energy isn’t the only thing that’s new to Swire Coca-Cola. In fact, the company is home to products from across the beverage world.

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“Any time we have folks come to our warehouse and give a tour, they’re always shocked to see that we’re in these categories,” Chandler said. “We carry products like coconut water, aloe water and we’re actually launching a new product called Topo Chico, which is out on the market already. It’s a mineral water imported from Mexico. Consumers are telling us what they want and we’re just trying to meet their needs.” Swire Coca-Cola of Glendale services a large portion of Arizona, notably from the I-17 west to as far north as Rock Springs. It also services as far as Wickenburg and as west as Buckeye. SEE SWIRE PAGE 2

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Six West Valley school districts will have to decide whether grant money they now use to pay for security officers should be diverted to hiring counselors or social workers. The state superintendent of public schools has advised that Tolleson Elementary, Tolleson Union High School, Alhambra Elementary, Deer Valley Unified and Dysart Unified school districts can reexamine their use of School Safety Program grants they now get for school resource officers. Meanwhile, districts that don’t have schools on SEE SCHOOLS PAGE 3

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