Birds Eye to Close or Sell Six Processing Plants
From the Associated Press
Birds Eye Foods Inc., the nation’s largest processor of branded frozen vegetables, is exiting nearly all of its non-branded businesses, closing a plant in California and selling or shutting down three in western New York state and two others in Georgia and Wisconsin within a year.
Shutting down the Watsonville, Calif., plant will cost about 550 full-time jobs.
The company, based in Rochester, N.Y., said it wanted to focus its efforts on its branded businesses. The overhaul will affect about 1,400 of its 2,800 employees.
