Kemper to bring 350 jobs to New Albany by 2012

Kemper Foods International, LLC will add more than 350 jobs by 2012 through an expansion of its New Albany plant. In July, the New Albany Redevelopment Commission signed off on backing a loan for Kemper with $625,000 of tax-increment financing money -- a move also OK'd by the City Council. That loan was for machinery to allow Kemper to hire 50 new employees by the end of 2009 and expand its operation. The Indiana Economic Development Corporation also provided Kemper Foods with up to $1.1 million in performance-based tax credits and up to $145,000 in training grants based on the expansion and addition of workers