Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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.

Comments

pizzato

Wal-Mart strikes again!

walrus4ever

They must have been on thin ice to fold with the loss of one customer. My sympathies to the unfortunate people who will lose their jobs. At least they were trying to support themselves without their hands out for Obamas socialist give-a-ways

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