Dover Food Retail to add 300 jobs in Chesterfield

Dover Food Retail will soon invest over $20 million to expand its Virginia operations, adding 300 jobs in Chesterfield County.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday that the Georgia manufacturer is relocating manufacturing of its Anthony brand of commercial refrigerator and freezer glass doors and frames from Los Angeles to the company’s Chesterfield campus.

“Dover Food Retail‘s move from California to Virginia is an incredible endorsement of the commonwealth as a hub for advanced manufacturing,” Youngkin said in a statement. “The cases produced in this facility will soon be used at some of the largest food and beverage retailers nationwide.”

Headquartered in Conyers, Georgia, Dover Food Retail is a manufacturer of commercial and industrial refrigeration systems, refrigerated display cases, specialty products, glass and freezer doors and lighting. It operates through its core brands, Anthony and Hillphoenix, and has more than 3,000 employees. Its customers include supermarkets, convenience stores and other food service and food processing businesses.

“This latest round of investments will add all-new, state-of-the-art equipment to our factories, expand our research and development laboratories, create a Dover Food Retail parts hub and establish our new distribution center of excellence,” said Dover Food Retail President Paul Sindoni in a statement.

The Dover Food Retail group of companies are subsidiaries of Illinois-based conglomerate Dover, which reported $7.75 billion in 2024 revenue and has about 24,000 employees.

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with Chesterfield to secure the project for Virginia, and Youngkin approved a $900,000 grant from the Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund to assist the county with the project.

Dover did not immediately return requests for additional information about the expansion project.