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Rodriguez Bakery, Inc. – BoiseDev [Video]

Family business Rodriguez Bakery, Inc. makes corn and flour tortillas and Mexican pastries and distributes the products to grocers across Idaho and the region. Rodriguez Bakery also delivers tortillas to restaurants in the Treasure Valley and Northern Idaho.

In 1955, Chief Operating Officer Jarad LaMarsh’s grandpa started a bakery in Texas that he later moved to the Treasure Valley. Fast forward decades later, LaMarsh began working at the bakery. In 2009, the company started making and wholesaling tortillas. Rodriguez Bakery’s growth is a response to treating employees well, hiring good people, and perseverance.

“(We’re) really getting out there in the community and trying to get people to try these tortillas and see the difference in the tortillas from everybody else,” LaMarsh said of their approach. “And hiring people and taking care of them and treating them like family, really. With us being a family-owned business, we always like to treat …

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Saint Johnsbury manufacturing company to offer more job opportunities [Video]

A groundbreaking was held ahead of the expansion of a Saint Johnsbury manufacturing company on Thursday morning.Weidmann Electrical Technology will be adding a new warehouse, which is set to begin construction sometime in December. Additionally, pre-existing buildings at the plant will undergo renovations. The warehouse is expected to be finished around the same time next year. "I'd like to say how incredibly excited I am about this growth here in our community," vice president of finance at Wiedmann Carol Martin said. "We're closely tied in with our customers, and we need to meet their increased demand."The project will cost around $44 million in total. The State will provide $1.7 million over the next six or seven years. "They had other opportunities and other places they could have made this investment, secretary of the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development Lindsay Kurrle said. So for them to choose here makes us incredibly happy, and we look forward to seeing that happen over the next year."The company specializes in producing insulation and other components for large transformers that power major cities. The company says the expansion will help to create about 60 to 70 jobs. Currently, around 300 people are employed at the company."In our expansion, we're going to have a bunch of different types of jobs, director of technology and innovation at Weidmann Kevin Biggie said. So we have lots of opportunities here from production employees to skilled, you know, machinists and technicians to engineers."The company said one of its goals is to get younger people involved with those jobs as well as the ones already offered. Barbara Rice has worked at the company for over 35 years and said she wants her family to have a legacy with Weidmann. "My son just started here in June, and I would like to see him 35- 40 years down the road staying here. Maybe my grandchildren will come here, Rice said. It's great for the community."

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China to flesh out economic stimulus plans after bumper rally [Video]

Top Chinese economic policymakers are expected to flesh out a raft of growth-boosting policies on Tuesday, after the announcement of long-awaited stimulus measures last month sparked a blistering stock market rally. Beijing has struggled to kickstart the economy as officials target around five percent growth this year -- a goal analysts say is optimistic given