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Bimbo Canada To Close Lévis, Quebec, Bakery

May 13, 2024
95 employees will be idled around July 1; other Quebec plants will pick up the slack.

Bimbo Canada will close its bakery in Lévis, Quebec, the week of July 1, idling 95 employees.

The Canadian subsidiary of the Mexican mega-baker Grupo Bimbo said products made at the facility can be baked at other bakeries where there is available capacity, primarily in Quebec facilities.

“This decision supports our strategic efforts to drive productivity improvements in our operations through better efficiency, increasing capacity utilization, and reducing overall costs, while allowing us to provide the same high-quality products and services to our valued customers,” the company said.

“While we have made every effort to sustain and build the business, over time, site utilization and production have steadily declined,” said Marie-Ève Royer, president of Bimbo Canada. “It was a tough decision to close this bakery and I will personally ensure that we do everything possible to ease the impact on our people and encourage them to seek employment at other Bimbo Canada facilities that are hiring.”

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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.

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