Snack Food Company LesserEvil has set up a new factory in Danbury, Connecticut where it now produces kettle corn and Popcorn made from chia seeds.
The company LesserEvil started in 2004 and is focused on healthy snack food alternatives. The company is headquartered in Wilton and has long been working with co-packers in New Jersey and New York to produce and package its line of puffed snacks and chips.
It took the company a year to get the factory open in northern Danbury, CT said CEO Charles Coristine, because the zoning for a food production facility didn’t exist before LesserEvil moved into the city.
“Mayor Mark has been really helpful,” in getting the factory the zoning set up and helping LesserEvil move in to the city, Coristine said.
When asked why Danbury, Coristine said, “Danbury was just a little more attractive.” It wasn’t on I-95, which he said gets overcrowded quickly, it was a little cheaper and “they seemed more eager,” he said.
Not all LesserEvil products will be produced in the new Danbury factory, which actually opened and began producing in January, but right now the Chia Pop and the Kettlecorn are being made there. Coristine hopes that as the company expands, the company will be able to produce and package more products itself.
