Frozen food giant shuts California manufacturing facility, – Business News
A billion-dollar organic-food powerhouse is pulling back from California manufacturing, shutting down its authentic Santa Rosa manufacturing facility and eliminating 260 jobs in a sweeping manufacturing shake-up.
The family-owned company, which racks up roughly $1 billion in annual retail gross sales of its merchandise, plans to wind down the Santa Rosa operation in phases earlier than shifting manufacturing to plants in Medford, Oregon, and Pocatello, Idaho.
“This is hard, and it should be hard,” CEO Paul Schiefer mentioned in a assertion to SFGATE. “We looked at every alternative before landing here. We have a loyal workforce in Santa Rosa, and we’re incredibly grateful for everything they’ve contributed.”
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Amy’s Kitchen in Santa Rosa, California. Hearst Newspapers by way of Getty Images
The company says the restructuring is geared toward reorganizing its manufacturing community so particular person services can think about the product classes the place they’re strongest.
Employees affected by the Santa Rosa closure will obtain separation packages, job-placement help and counseling companies, based on the company.
Amy’s Kitchen CEO Paul Schiefer. Credit: Amys Kitchen
The retreat is placing given the model’s muscle within the organic-food aisle.
Shoppers spend about $1 billion a yr on its merchandise at retail checkouts, producing roughly $600 million in product sales for the company itself.
Market intelligence firm SPINS ranks the model No. 1 throughout a number of natural classes.
A employee carrying protecting gloves wraps a burrito behind a protecting barrier at an Amy’s Kitchen facility in Santa Rosa. Bloomberg by way of Getty Images
Its retail gross sales knowledge provides the company an 89.09% greenback share of Organic Frozen Pizza and a 73.80% share of Organic Frozen Burritos and Pockets.
SPINS additionally ranks it first in Organic Frozen Entrees and Organic Ready-to-Eat Soups.
Now, nevertheless, the company is ending its food-production footprint in California.
Maria Anguino wears security glasses and protecting clothes as she strikes cans to the processing line at Amy’s Kitchen in Santa Rosa. Hearst Newspapers by way of Getty Images
Its company headquarters will stay in downtown Petaluma, the place the family-owned business was based in 1987.
But the Santa Rosa plant is being shuttered, with layoffs anticipated to start late this yr and one other spherical scheduled for subsequent summer season.
Signage is displayed outdoors the Amy’s Kitchen facility in Santa Rosa. Bloomberg by way of Getty Images
The manufacturing cuts prolong to Idaho as effectively.The company plans to completely lay off dozens of employees at its Pocatello canning plant by the top of the yr, based on a WARN discover filed with the Idaho Department of Labor Thursday.
The discover says affected staff are anticipated to be separated from the company efficient Dec. 18.The listed cuts embrace 14 Cook II positions, 14 Manufacturing Operator I jobs, 5 Manufacturing Operator II positions and 5 Manufacturing Operator IV positions, together with a number of different classifications whose worker counts weren’t legible in information reviewed by The Idaho State Journal.
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