The Associated Press
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — A Mississippi poultry processor has selected a site in Nash County, N.C., for a new chicken plant that will employ more than 1,000 people, but it's unclear how soon it will be constructed.
Sanderson Farms said Aug. 28 it has purchased land for the plant near Interstate 95 and N.C. 97 southwest of Rocky Mount.
The company will hire 1,100 employees when the plant is completed, said Joe F. Sanderson Jr., chairman and CEO of the company.
"The timing of building that complex remains on hold until market. . .
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