sr1- pepsico to tulsa- vo

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Published: June 9, 2006

The following is a script from a News9 broadcast

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Hundreds of new jobs are heading to Pryor...
Governor Henry announced yesterday that PepsiCo is spending 180-million-dollars to build a new plant at the MidAmerica Industrial Park.

280 workers will make and distribute "Gatorade" and "Propel Fitness Water" at the plant.
The company expects to fill some positions as early as January.
Pepsi predicts the plant will have a five-to-seven-Billion-dollar impact on the economy in the first ten years of operation.