Gov. Hassan Visits Londonderry Company

Gov. Maggie Hassan visited the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Northern New England Production Center in Londonderry on Wednesday morning, where she toured the facility and discussed the priorities that are critical to the business community’s efforts to create good jobs and keep New Hampshire’s economy moving forward.

The fourth-leading Coca-Cola bottler in the country, Coca-Cola of Northern New England began in Laconia in 1977 as a single bottling operation. Today, it has grown to include 10 distribution centers across the six New England states and upstate New York, as well as the state-of-the-art production center in Londonderry.

In her State of the State address, Hassan continued her focus on building a strong workforce that can fill good jobs at growing businesses, announcing that she will create a taskforce to help modernize science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) education, and that the state will launch a new program to strengthen New Hampshire’s workforce pipeline by partnering manufacturing companies directly with classes at local schools. Hassan also emphasized the need to ensure that the state remains responsive to the needs of the business community, announcing that the state will explore creating a new Gold Standard program to highlight and ease regulatory hurdles for businesses with exemplary track records.