Sara Lee to close Greenville plant

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Two hundred workers will lose their jobs when the Sara Lee Corp. closes its bread factory in Greenville.

Sara Lee officials told the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg that they have to close the bakery in January because they lost a major customer.

Spokesman Mike Cummins says the plant makes frozen dough and bagels for the food-service industry.

Cummins says a few workers may be offered jobs at other plants, but the rest will get severance packages and help finding another job.

Sara Lee began operating the Greenville plant in 1984 after acquiring it from King's Hawaiian Bakery.

Greenville County's unemployment rate was 10.6 percent in October.