OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. – American Baitworks will be bringing well-known fishing lures, tackle and rods to a new home at Sunplex Industrial Park. Justin Sward, senior vice president of American Baitworks, says they’ve set up a parent company for six brands acquired over the past year and putting them under one roof. Some of the brands it manufactures and sells wholesale to big stores. Their current operation on Lemoyne Boulevard is a 10,000-square-foot space, but it now needs a bigger facility. Sward said four acres in the Sunplex Industrial Park will have some 70,000 square feet and it will be developed in three phases. The near $10 million investment is projected to create 70 jobs. (Source: WLOX, 10/21/19)
