The Campbell Soup Co. will transition its Paris, Texas, processing facility to focus on producing Prego pasta sauce and Pace salsa products, eliminating soup production operations at the facility, according to local news reports.
The decision to end manufacturing of the company’s flagship soup product at the plant will result in a reduction of jobs at the facility, with approximately 300 of the nearly 680 positions at the plant affected over the next two years — the time period set for the transition — a company spokesperson told the news outlet in a written statement.
Closure of the Paris facility was on the table for Campbell’s, the report noted, but in the end, the company decided to transfer soup production to other facilities and transform the plant to focus on sauce and salsa production.
The Paris facility had been expanded in 1998 to produce the Prego and Pace products alongside the soup products it had been making since it opened in 1964. The news outlet reported that the plant had begun processing V8 juice products in 2009 as well.
