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FOOD TECH ATTENDS CABOT/MALONE PROPERTIES DEDICATION Montpelier, VT, September 20, 2004 – On September 8, 2004, engineering/construction management firm Food Tech Structures, LLC, attended the dedication ceremony for a new Cabot Creamery Distribution Center in Montpelier, Vermont. The 63,000 square foot facility, which was designed and constructed by Food Tech for Patrick Malone of Malone Properties, will allow for the consolidation, storage, selection and distribution of all Cabot and McCadam label products from a single location. The Cabot and McCadam brands are owned by Agri-Mark, the Northeast’s leading dairy farmer cooperative. “Cabot Creamery’s growth is really remarkable,” says Food Tech Senior Vice President David Wittliff, adding that this factor played a role in the design and construction of the new facility. “For example, the Distribution Center features pallet slots that are bar coded and numbered in anticipation of a new warehouse management system for inventory tracking and order selection,” he says.

From left to right: Richard Stammer, President & CEO, Cabot Creamery; Governor Jim Douglas; Jim Pratt, Senior VP of Operations, Cabot Creamery; Kevin Dorn, Secretary of Agency of Commerce & Community Development

Jim Pratt, Cabot’s Senior Vice President of Operations, agrees. “Increasing demand for Cabot brand products was the driving force behind this new facility,” he says. “Not only does the new Distribution Center allow us to more efficiently meet existing needs, it has also been designed to accommodate projected growth well into the future.”

Wittliff adds that the facility was also designed and constructed to comply with the State of Vermont’s demanding Energy Efficiency Guidelines, and features a single stage ammonia refrigeration system, with frequency drives on the compressor and condenser motors, to minimize energy usage.

Food Tech Structures, LLC, specializes in planning, engineering and construction for the food and beverage industries. Offering all disciplines in-house, Food Tech has offices in Hanover, Massachusetts, Metro New York and Los Angeles, California. The company's architects and engineers are licensed professionals with unparalleled experience in food facility design, and construction services are provided for fast-track, single source, total-responsibility, design/construct project implementation solutions. For additional information, please visit the company website at www.foodtech.com, or contact Mike Golden at mgolden@foodtech.com, or at (800) 880-0118.

Cabot Creamery has been in continuous operation in Vermont since 1919 and is owned by the dairy farm families of Agri-Mark, the Northeast’s premier dairy cooperative. Cabot makes a full line of cheeses and other dairy products, including “the World’s Best Cheddar” as judged at the 22nd Biennial World Championship Cheese Contest. For additional information on Cabot Creamery, visit the company website at www.cabotcheese.com.