Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images(SPRINGDALE, Ark.) — Tyson Foods will close three of its facilities by the middle of 2015 in an effort to “improve the performance of its prepared foods business.”
According to a release from the company, Tyson will close plants in Cherokee, Iowa, Buffalo, N.Y., and Santa Teresa, N.M. The Iowa plant will close on Sept. 27, and the other two will be closed “during the first half of…2015.”
The decision impacts approximately 950 employees, who the company says will be encouraged to apply for openings within the company and will receive invitations to Tyson-hosted job fairs.
Tyson says the closures are caused by “changing product needs, the age of the Cherokee facility and prohibitive cost of its renovation, and the distance of the Buffalo and Santa Teresa plants from their raw material supply base in the Midwest.”
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