FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Baltimore
November 15, 2002--
Phillips’ New
Headquarters Provides Early
Opening to Maryland Manufacturers
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Phillips Foods provided an early opening to their brand new Fort Avenue, Locust Point facility on Thursday evening, November 14. This was the first public event held by the company at their new global headquarters facility. About 100 fortunate companies that signed up for the Inside Series program were thrilled. Attendees were treated to quite an evening of music, seafood and refreshments that further enhanced the firm’s reputation for quality and excellence. In addition, select attendees were treated to a private cooking class prior to hearing the local manufacturer’s success story.
Shirley Phillips, founder of Phillips and current President, Mark Sneed provided the 100 attendees with a history of the firm and some background as to how the firm has become such a Maryland success story. The firm is a privately held, family owned firm that has always had an immediate identification with Baltimore and Maryland crabs.
Firms like Phillips Foods provide a great model for how large manufacturers see value in working in an American urban setting and can stay competitive as a global firm. "So many firms want to hide in the suburbs,” said Mark Sneed, President of Phillips Foods. “Our production and labor costs are much lower here in Baltimore than anywhere in the world.” Phillips Food’s manufacturing operation has a direct impact on the urban workforce. Two hundred urban area employees now have the opportunity to work for a manufacturing firm for the first time.
The Inside Series is a World Trade Center Institute-Regional Manufacturing Institute educational program to help local manufacturers hear best practices on manufacturing and international trade. The Inside Series showcases corporate success stories from Maryland firms like McCormick & Co, Unilever, DAP, Northrop Grumman and Phillips Foods. The program enables attending firms to incorporate new ideas and make new connections to help their business. “We provide a unique portal into some of the leading manufacturers in the Mid-Atlantic region so that area firms can learn from their global success," said Deborah Kielty, President of WTCI.
