Napoli Foods Inc.’s 120,000-square-foot distribution center at 10 Knotter Drive in Cheshire is set to undergo a $10 million expansion that will increase its size by more than a third.
The company’s owner, Ferraro Foods based in Piscataway, New Jersey, announced Tuesday that it had obtained local and state approvals for a 45,000-square-foot addition to the facility.
Napoli is a specialty brand of imported Italian food, and is one of the largest distributors of food and food service supplies to pizzerias and Italian restaurants in the country.
“This expansion will represent a significant investment in one of our key facilities supporting Ferraro’s operations in the ‘pizza power states’ of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, which are so important in our business,” said Michael Cipriano, Ferraro’s vice president of sales and revenue operations.
It marks Ferraro’s third major growth initiative in the last three months, and positions the company to double Napoli’s current sales volume and continue expanding its presence in the Northeast pizza market.
Napoli’s distribution center, built in 2008, is located halfway between Boston and New York City. Ferraro has customers in 26 states and distribution centers in New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Florida and Indiana, in addition to Connecticut.
Ferraro, which has annual sales revenue of nearly $1.3 billion, acquired Napoli in 2019.
