Hope for A-Treat Bottling Company. We are learning of more potential buyers...including a local man who wants to hire back workers.
It's been two weeks since the company closed its doors here. While it's too early to tell what will happen...it sounds like the owners have some options.
DON "if you would have said to me two weeks ago, what's the future of the A-Treat brand, i would have been much more pessimistic than i am today."
Reporter A-Treat Bottling Company might not be done for good..just yet.
Don "there's hope for the brand to remain alive at some point in the future."
REPORTER Don Cunningham... President and ceo of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation...says he's been pleasantly surprised by the level of interest. His organization has heard from about a half dozen potential buyers.
DON "Different buyers may have different levels of interest in either buying the brand, producing it somewhere else, or contract producing it versus buying it to keep the existing facility or to buy a new facility and produce it at a location in the lehigh valley."
PAUL "m intent would be, if it was feasible, to buy the company, hire back as many people as possible."
REPORTER Allentown businessman Paul Eifler submitted a letter of intent to purchase a- Treat...and is asking for a response by February 13.
Paul "It's just a chance to keep it going and keep a legacy going and if my family can be a part of it, that's great."
Reporter As we've reported before, Thomas Coombs of Northampton County is also interested. Cunningham says...at the end of the day...any potential deal..would be a private one.
Don "there are a lot of interested parties and if the Garvey Family is interested in selling, we're hopeful that the brand can stay alive into the future."
It will ultimately be up to the A-treat owners to decide what they want to do. The property here is listed for sale...for more than 3-million dollars. A-Treat is staying tight lipped...they told told us this week confidential meetings and agreements are underway. Live in Allentown Meghan Packer 69 News.
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