Meat snacks company to build facility in Beatrice, bringing 150 new jobs

A national meat snacks company is partnering with a Beatrice-based snack foods company to bring a large manufacturing facility to the southeast Nebraska city.

Chomps, which makes meat sticks, said Wednesday it is partnering with Landmark Snacks to bring a 160,000-square-foot manufacturing facility to Beatrice. The companies hope to have the facility up and running by the second quarter of 2027. They did not provide a cost estimate.

"The explosive growth we’ve experienced makes increasing our capacity not just a goal, but an essential step to meet the continuous, high demand for Chomps," Rashid Ali, Chomps co-founder and CEO, said in a news release. "This facility is a major strategic move that will allow us to scale with intention, supporting both sustained momentum and future innovation.”

Chomps said in the release that its growth rate has been 10 times the average growth rate of the meat sticks category, necessitating its need to expand.

The two companies said their partnership makes sense for a number of reasons, including distribution efficiency, adjacency to an existing Landmark manufacturing facility and a skilled workforce in Beatrice. Landmark already makes some Chomp products at its existing plant.

“This new Greenfield project is a continuation of that successful partnership," said Chad Lottman, owner of Landmark Snacks. "We are excited to break ground on a facility that will be custom-built to Chomps’ rigorous specifications and to create significant new job opportunities in Beatrice."

Landmark Snacks, which got its start in Diller in 1994 and later moved to Beatrice, employs more than 300 people. The new facility is expected to create 150 new jobs in the community of about 12,000 people.