Posted on 05/23/2015 8:53:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Unilever plans to move production of vegetable oil and margarine spreads from Baltimore to Kansas beginning at the end of the month, shutting its Baltimore plant and laying off 137 workers.
The consumer goods giant plans to shift operations from its Southwest Avenue factory to Olathe, Kansas, where it performs similar work and embarked on a $152.5 million expansion in 2013.
Unilever informed Maryland regulators of the layoffs, which begin this month, in a notice last month, as required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. The plant is slated to close by the end of September.
The Southwest Avenue location manufactured Country Crock and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. A spokeswoman for the firm said the move was precipitated by a search for "greater efficiencies."
"Due to over-capacity in our spreads network in the USA, greater efficiencies can be achieved by shifting production," Jaime Stein said in a statement....
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Rassis, if you axe me.
Rassis, if you axe me.
The margarine biz ain’t what it used to be
Baltimore? They are leaving Baltimore?
good for Kansas.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
Leaving Baltimore???? The Hell you say!! Isn’t that the People’s Paradise?
Sam Brownback’s tax cuts paying off. Kansas is on the move!
Certainly they carefully considered moving the Kansas work to Baltimore. Oh, maybe not.
More proof that Thomas Frank is a total twit:
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America/dp/080507774X
Irony is a cold bitch.
I can still hear Howard Cosell : “ I call them the Baltomore Pilgrims, because they left in the Middle of the night on a Mayflower ...”
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