Detroit businessman searches for Selma manufacturing site

From the West Alabama Newsroom–

A Detroit businessman who recently bought Selma business is looking for a site in Selma to manufacture the company’s products.

For 35 years the tobacco-free dip, Baccoff, has helped dip and tobacco users kick the habit.

The Selma-based family-owned business was recently sold to Detroit businessman Todd Webber.

Webber says his new company — Alabama Extracts — will also manufacture health supplements and nootropics.

“A nootropic is basically a smart vitamin or smart drug. It gives you mental clarity, give you energy and does all the good things from a clean label standpoint,” said Webber.

The new products will use the same pouch between the lip and gum delivery system — to put good things into the body fast.

“Put the pouch in. Get your energy. It’s a fast delivery mechanism because of the science behind it. It’s mucosal. Goes through the enzymes in your mouth. Enters the blood stream very fast,” Webber said.

“And then you’ll get that energy and then we use the additional vitamins so that you don’t get the jitters.”

“It’s much more effective than a pill because it’s absorbed you know through your gums quickly,” said Baccoff founder, Russell Ralston.

“It bypasses the gut and goes to your bloodstream where you want it to go.”

Webber says manufacturing all of the products at one location makes the most sense for the company.
And he’d like to do that — in Selma.

“We’ve looked at 4 locations and we’re down to two locations at this point,” he said.

Right now, Alabama Extracts already employs about 17 people from the Selma area.

If a manufacturing site is found — Webber says that number would double — within the first 18 months of operation.