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Editor’s Note: Bueno Foods, which has long been a mainstay of the Barelas neighborhood, will celebrate 70 years in operation Tuesday. Joe Baca and two of his brothers started Bueno Foods in 1951 with a plan to make roasted green chile available year-round. Bueno Foods staffers pack corn tortillas Wednesday at the company’s Barelas facility. The company will celebrate 70 years in business Tuesday. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal) “Frozen vegetables were really becoming the rage,” says Ana Baca, Joe Baca’s daughter and vice president of marketing and communications. “People were being able to afford freezers at that time.” ...................... The Baca brothers were the first to flame roast and freeze green chile on a commercial scale, according to the company website. ....
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The Albuquerque City Council approved financial support that will allow Bueno Foods’ proposed expansion to move forward during its meeting on Monday. The Bueno Foods project will allow the Albuquerque company to build a 25,000-square-foot freezer warehouse to store food onsite. The project will be supported by Industrial Revenue Bonds and Local Economic Development Act funds, and was fostered by a mix of local and state economic development agencies, according to a news release from the city economic development agency. The company plans to invest a proposed $10 million IRB and $500,000 in LEDA funds in the expansion, according to the release. The LEDA grant funding would be provided by the state of New Mexico, with the city acting as fiscal agent. ....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Bueno Foods has been awarded a $500,000 state grant to expand its 70-year-old family business and help boost sales of New Mexico products nationwide. Economic Development Department Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced Tuesday that Bueno Foods’ economic assistance will be used to expand storage and manufacturing capacity and better distribute New Mexico chiles and food products throughout the U.S. The expansion will be on Bueno Foods property in Albuquerque. The $10 million project is expected to begin this summer and be completed by the end of 2022, at which time Bueno will start to add 49 employees over five years. The company already has about 280 full-time employees. ....
New Mexico awards $500K grant to Bueno Foods family business March 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Bueno Foods has been awarded a $500,000 state grant to expand its 70-year-old family business and help boost sales of New Mexico products nationwide. Economic Development Department Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced Tuesday that Bueno Foods’ economic assistance will be used to expand storage and manufacturing capacity and better distribute New Mexico chiles and food products throughout the U.S. The expansion for Bueno Foods will be on its property in Albuquerque and will include a new 25,000-square-foot freezer warehouse for its manufacturing campus. ....