Bimbo Bakeries USA plans to close three small bakeries, two in northwest New York state and one in San Antonio, Texas, in the coming months.
Bimbo USA notified the New York State Dept. of Labor it plans to close the bakery in Auburn, N.Y., on Sept. 6, idling all 49 employees there. A bakery in Olean, N.Y., will shutter on Nov. 2, laying off all 82 workers. Both are closing because of “reduced capacity in the manufacturing network.”
No information was provided about the closing in San Antonio.
These closings follow three others from earlier this year: plants in Bellevue, Neb., Albuquerque, NM., and Levis, Quebec.
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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.