The newly constructed Lawton Airport Industrial Park will include a new distribution center for Bottling Group LLC, an operating subsidiary of PepsiCo.

The company’s newly opened state-of-the-art Lawton facility triples the size of its current footprint to more than 72,000 square feet to help them serve customers in the area more effectively and keep up with growing consumer demand for their beverages. PepsiCo directly employs approximately 1,400 people in the state of Oklahoma at this facility who help manufacture, move and sell its brands, including Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Quaker Oats, Lay’s, Fritos and Doritos.

“Jobs and investment in our community are essential and we welcome the addition of Bottling Group LLC to our airport industrial park,” says Lawton Ft. Lawton President Brad Cooksey. Sill Economic Development Corporation. The LEDC team acted as the central point of contact throughout the project, with outreach to the City of Lawton, Comanche County, the State of Oklahoma, Turcotte Development Group, LLC and Bottling Group LLC, ensuring that the project received the team’s full attention and was completed on schedule.