South Korea firm buys
Allen Family Foods
South Korean food company Harim
Corp. has won a 43% stake in Delaware
poultry company Allen Family Foods
after Mountaire Farms discontinued its
earlier efforts to purchase the bankrupt
company.
bankruptcy court on July 27 to purchase
Allen, and expects its total costs to be
roughly $120 million to take over the
firm’s plants and farms. According to
Allen of;cials, Harim intends to keep the
facilities open.
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Plant closing
Pilgrim’s to close Dallas
poultry processing plant
Pilgrim’s has announced plans to close
its chicken-processing plant in Dallas by
September 30.
Production from the plant will be
consolidated into several other Pilgrim’s
facilities in the region, including the
processing and prepared-foods plants
in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Pilgrim’s
contract growers who supply birds to
the Dallas plant will begin supplying
the other company plants following
the consolidation. There will be no
disruption in supply of product to
Pilgrim’s customers.
Approximately 1,000 hourly and salaried
employees who work at the Dallas facility
will be affected by the plant closing. Pilgrim’s
Pride expects to be able to offer positions at
other facilities to interested employees.
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Poultry facilities closing
Townsends poultry plants
closing in North Carolina
Townsends poultry processing
operations in North Carolina are being
shut down after Ukrainian billionaire
Oleg Bakhmatyuk, who bought the
bankrupt company’s assets in February
for $25 million, decided to close
Townsends plants in Siler City and
Mocksville.
The move ends contracts with roughly
200 chicken farmers in four counties and
will result in 1,000 people losing their jobs.
The Mocksville plant will close by October
1; the Siler City plant is expected to close
on a similar time frame. ■
