Omaha, Nebraska-based ConAgra Foods has announced that its Lamb Weston unit will invest $210 million in a sweet potato processing plant in rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, creating up to 500 jobs. The state will contribute up to $37 million, luring the company away from sites in Mississippi and North Carolina. The plant will open in Fall of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 24, 2009
Pilgrim’s Pride will shut down its Athens, Alabama chicken processing plant, laying off 640 employees. The firm will also shutter one of its two plants in Athens, Georgia. The plants could be reopened at a later date. Those laid off in Alabama may be offered other positions. All will be given outplacement assistance. Pilgrim’s Pride, headquartered in [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 19, 2009
Illinois’ Stock Yards Meat Packing will consolidate, cutting 75 jobs in St. Paul, Minnesota. Some workers will be allowed to relocate to the firm’s Plymouth plant; the rest will be laid off. The St. Paul plant currently employs 125. The workers’ union, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789, says no details about the restructuring have been [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 7, 2009
California’s Tony’s Fine Foods is expanding its Sacramento headquarters, spending $15 million and creating 75 new jobs. The firm is working with the city’s Economic Development Department to get the necessary permits for the new facility. Sacramento’s BTV Development is managing the construction project. Founded 75 years ago, Tony’s Fine Foods supplies meat, baked goods, cheese and [...]
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...Saturday, May 23, 2009
Charlotte, North Carolina’s Lance, which makes crackers, cookies, nuts, and potato chips, will add 70 jobs at a plant in Columbus, Georgia. The snack maker Lance is launching a new cracker line and increasing candy bar production in a $10.5 million expansion. Founded in 1913, Lance is an American snack food company. It manufactures Captain’s Wafers, Toastchee [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
Foster Farms plans to restore all 1,300 jobs at its shuttered Pilgrim’s Pride chicken processing plant in Farmerville, Louisiana. Pilgrim’s Pride shut down the plant on May 8th. The chicken processor will buy the plant for $80 million, with $50 million of that coming from the state. Under the deal, 1,100 jobs must be restored within three [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 4, 2009
Nice Blends, a Bronx, New York, food manufacturer, is moving its operations to Whiteville, North Carolina, bringing 54 jobs to Columbus County over the next three years. The new food processing plant will make sweet-potato fries, pies, and salt and pepper packets. Columbus County farmers harvested 1,900 acres of sweet potatoes in 2008. The county’s unemployment rate [...]
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
General Motors announced a nationwide staff reduction of 1,600 salaried positions today. Most of the layoffs will take effect this week, with the rest finished by May 1st. The layoffs are part of GM’s plan to shutter 14 of its 47 US plants by 2012, and cut 20,000 jobs. Thirty-four hundred will be US-based. Earlier this month, 7,000 [...]
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