Bazooka Brands recently opened a multimillion-dollar, 120,000-square-foot facility in Moosic, Lackawanna County, to produce the company’s Ring Pop brand.
The new facility, which has the capacity to produce 1.5 million Ring Pops daily, replaces a Scranton facility that closed on Aug. 29 after 47 years of operations because of structural issues. The unplanned closure created uncertainty for both the company and its more than 100 Scranton employees.
The Moosic facility is nearly four times the size, allowing the company to keep pace with increasing consumer demand. Ring Pop is expected to surpass $100 million in retail sales this year, according to company projections.
“It would not have been surprising for it to take at least a year or more to get back up and running,” Tony Jacobs, Bazooka Brands CEO, said. “But we have an incredible team, and I could not be prouder of how they responded. In a matter of weeks, they found a new location. In a matter of months, they moved our equipment. And in just six months, the facility, our equipment, and our team were fully operational again. What an unbelievable accomplishment.”
To celebrate the facility’s opening, Bazooka Brands held a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony on March 27.