Posted on 04/21/2011 6:18:45 PM PDT by Qbert
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that President Obama signed into law this year didn't just bring us a fancy new FDA recall page. It also is sending the 125-year-old A.L. Bazzini Co., which makes the “official peanut of Yankee Stadium,” out of New York and into the loving embrace of Pennsylvania.
The firm, which moved from TriBeCa to Hunts Point in 1997, says the new regulations would require them to perform a $40-million-dollar update to their production facility. And since they have this "state of the art" plant in Allentown (thanks to their recent purchase of the chocolate company Bartons) it is just more cost efficient to move. The exit will mean the loss of 57 jobs in the Bronx (well, sort of—the company expects about 30 employees to move with them) but it isn't as bad as it could be!
"I won't pull all of Bazzini out of New York—not now, not ever," the company's CEO Rocco Damato said. The company will keep a small distribution center in the Bronx that will employ six people and they will also maintain some office positions in the city. It'll also keep providing peanuts to the Yankees, and may even open up some shops here in the future. As Damato says, "Bazzini is a New York brand. This is not what we wanted to do. We had no choice."
Meanwhile back in the communist command center deep within the White House......
ML/NJ
1 job from each state !
Who’d ya vote for, Rocco? Just curious.
“57 jobs. Who would even notice?”
The people losing their jobs might.
The taxman might notice.
I’d have just outsourced the nut production to a Canadian company that can legally import raw peanuts at half our price , and fire all of the employees ,, let a local freight company handle distribution... move everything out of New York so they can’t get any taxes ...
Bump.
First move to Pennsylvania.
Next move to Indonesia.
Barzini??? Will Luca Brazzi please pick up the black hand phone
Yea great. More New Yorkers in Pennsylvania, thanks again obama.
Good one! LMAO
ME! I find it VERY suspicious!
Heinz, 57 Varieties
Obama, 57 states
FDA Food Safety Act, 57 lost jobs
Conicidence? I think not!
Those old facilities in NY were poisoning thousands for fans every year..just had to go.
Obama’s Amerika (and Yankees) ping
I’m willing to bet that Bloomberg’s daily spewings are poisoning more fans in a month, than these old facilites were in a decade.
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