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Pilgrim’s Pride Considers Shuttering Plant
Pilgrim’s Pride is considering shuttering one of its plants unless there are improvements in quality and a better return on investment.
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(April 10, 2008)—Pilgrim’s Pride, which operates a processed products plant in Waco that employs several hundred, has told managers and workers it may close its El Dorado, Ark. plant if there aren’t improvements in quality and a better return on investment.
More than 1,600 people work at a processing plant, a feed mill and a hatchery in Union County owned by Pilgrim's Pride.
A spokesman for the Pittsburg, Texas-based poultry processor said there is no timetable for the plant to turn itself around, but he said there isn't much time.
Ray Atkinson says the company doesn't want to close the complex, but unless there are immediate changes that'll be the only option.
On March 12, Pilgrim's Pride announced it was closing a processing plant in North Carolina and six of its 12 distribution centers.
The company also said it would review its other operations and would consider more closures.
Atkinson said the assessment at El Dorado is part of that review.
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