Safeway to close Denver bread plant
Streamlining operations after its merger with Albertsons, Safeway will shutter its Denver bread plant and let 95 workers go.
The bakery, operating in northeast Denver since the 1970s, will close February 27, according to a document submitted to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
Bread production is moving to a third-party baker, said spokeswoman Kris Staaf, who confirmed the closure disclosed in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice, according to DenverPost.com.
“This was a difficult decision made after long and careful deliberation,” she said in an e-mailed statement. “We evaluated the volume of work and believe that moving production to a third party will allow us to run a more efficient operation.”
Safeway‘s USD 9 billion acquisition by Cerberus Capital Management-owned Albertsons last year created a 2,230-store grocery chain with operations in 34 states. When the deal closed in January 2015, the combined companies employed 250,000 workers and operated 27 distribution facilities and 19 manufacturing plants.
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