Stampede Meat executives and local officials participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the company’s modern manufacturing facility in Sunland Park, New Mexico on Thursday, December 6, 2018. Stampede Meat received thousands of applications during the initial hiring phase that started in October 2018. When the facility opens on Monday, they will have over 300 employees. As the construction progresses throughout the first quarter of 2019 new positions will become available. By the year 2024, Stampede Meat will have a workforce of nearly 1,300 employees. 
“We are thrilled to be here today celebrating Stampede’s first expansion outside of the Chicagoland area,” said Stampede Meat CEO Brock Furlong. “The support and excitement from the entire state of New Mexico, especially the community of Sunland Park, has been positively overwhelming.”
In July, Stampede Meat announced they were expanding to Sunland Park creating up to 1,295 new food processing and manufacturing jobs over the next five years. The company is investing more than $36 million in renovating their facility.
“The ability for various groups like MVEDA, the State of New Mexico, the New Mexico Partnership, and the City of Sunland Park, to come together in a seamless effort to work on attracting a company like Stampede, is a significant vantage point not found in every state & community,” said MVEDA President & CEO Davin Lopez. “Because of that joint effort, we are now fortunate to be part of this monumental ribbon cutting here in the New Mexico Borderplex!”
“We are delighted that Stampede Meat, Inc. chose Sunland Park as their new home,” said Sunland Park Mayor Javier Perea. “In the few months they have been working on getting their facility ready for production, we have come to know each other and become great friends. The company has been very supportive of our local events and we have worked with them diligently to help them fill hundreds of jobs needed for their first phase of production.”
Stampede Meat will be supported by New Mexico’s closing fund, LEDA, as well as the Job Training Incentive Program, JTIP. LEDA is New Mexico’s closing fund, a tool that recruits new businesses to the state while helping those that are already here grow and thrive.
Stampede Meat, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Bridgeview, Illinois.
Release courtesy of the New Mexico Economic Development Department.
