A Coca Cola Bottling plant in Rochester, New York will stop production in November, leaving 57 manufacturing workers jobless. About 120 sales and distribution workers will remain. Founded in 1886, Atlanta’s Coca-Cola Company sells its signature carbonated soft drink in more than 200 countries. Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
The Federal Bureau of Prisons says the agency has hired 49 employees for the federal prison in Hazelton, West Virginia. The facility, in Preston County, still has 15 vacancies. Over the next year two new prisons will open in the state, creating 600 jobs. The new positions will include guards, medical professional, human resources experts, construction workers, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Johnson Controls will close its Dixon, Illinois plant in October, laying off 211 people. The plant manufactures industrial refrigeration equipment for the food & beverage industry. The firm announced in March it would cut jobs and close 10 manufacturing plants. Johnson Controls employs 140,000 people. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Friday, July 10, 2009
MGM Mirage is holding a job fair next week, seeking to fill hundreds of food and beverage jobs at the under-construction CityCenter project. The positions include assistant stewards, bakers, banquet management, buspersons, cooks, food servers, fountain workers, and kitchen & restaurant management. The job fair will be held next Thursday, July 16th at CityCenter’s Career Center. Appointments [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
Kellogg’s is spending $10 million to expand its Augusta, Georgia plant, creating 220 new jobs. The positions will pay $10 to $15 per hour. The plant will produce new cookie products for its Keebler and Kashi brands, and for the Girl Scouts. It currently employs 500 workers. Twenty percent of the new workers will come from a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 15, 2009
Aramark Campus Services LLC will lay off 185 jobs at a contract site at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia-based Aramark said its cuts at the Philadelphia university, effective July 12th, will be permanent, and come at the end of a management-services contract at UPenn. Aramark Limited is a food, facility and apparel service partner to organizations across [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 1, 2009
New Orleans-based Sazerac North America may build a $22 million expansion, creating 140 jobs in Kentucky. The state is offering Sazerac $4.68 million in wage tax rebates. The plan would also upgrade distillation and bottling operations in Frankfort and Owensboro. Fifty-one new management positions in Louisville, in finance and customer service, would offer average pay of $75,000 a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 23, 2009
Nonni’s Foods will spend $27 million to build a commercial bakery in Yadkinville, North Carolina, after the state offered the firm a $300,000 One North Carolina Fund grant. Local governments will toss in a matching $300,000. The company must create 172 jobs in three years in order to collect the grant money. The average salary will be [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 20, 2009
Louisville, Kentucky-based liquor manufacturer Brown-Forman will cut its work force by 250 employees, mostly in the United States and Mexico. The remainder of the layoffs will affect Europe and the Asia-Pacific. The maker of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey employs 4,100 people. The distiller is offering early retirement to certain US workers; eliminating merit increases; and cutting [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Constellation Brands, the world’s largest wine producer, plans to cut 5% of its global workforce, or 400 jobs. Constellation, which owns brands like Robert Mondavi and Clos du Bois, had already begun cutting costs in its UK business. The company currently has 8,000 employees . The company sold more than 40 brands, including Chi-Chi’s premixed cocktails, to Sazerac [...]
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