In El Dorado, Pilgrim's Pride has a processing plant, a feed mill and a hatchery. The company also said it would combine its protein salad production operation in Franconia, Pa., with its Moorefield, W.
The move also affects 430 independent chicken farmers, the company said. The plants are expected to close by mid-May. The company expects the closures to cost $35 million, not including asset write-downs it may take in the second quarter. The company filed for Chapter 11 protection in December under a heavy debt load. The closures, which will reduce the company's chicken production by roughly 10 percent, are designed to save the company $110 million a year as part of an ongoing restructuring. said Friday it will cut 3,000 jobs as it shuts down operations at three of its 32 chicken processing plants, including one in Arkansas. Gainesville Plant Manager Tom Sanders told city council members, “On behalf of Pilgrim’s and for the team here in Gainesville, I appreciate the opportunity to be a partner…and to truly be a part of this community.”Ĭouncilwoman Barbara Brooks said, “I am so grateful that we have businesses and organizations in the community who make such grand commitments to the growth of Gainesville.”Ĭity Manager Bryan Lackey said he hopes to see work on the trail extension begin within a year.PITTSBURG, Texas (AP) - Pilgrim's Pride Corp. In addition a 0.27-mile spur will connect the Pilgrim’s processing plant on Industrial Boulevard at Mitchell Street to the Industrial Boulevard at Pine Street location. The Pilgrim’s donation will provide for construction of an incomplete 0.44-mile portion of the trail between Industrial Boulevard at Pine Street, along Georgia Avenue, paralleling the Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks, beneath Queen City Parkway then south to Aviation Boulevard. The multi-use trail system will eventually link the Rock Creek Greenway near the Gainesville Square with trails along Friendship Road and Lanier Islands Parkway, extending to points in Braselton and the University of North Georgia campus in Oakwood.
“This has really become a community-wide project, so I felt like it was not right just for us to receive it but it really needs to be a community effort.” While the construction activity funded by the donation will take place primarily inside Gainesville city limits, Sheppard invited other stakeholders to be a part of the gift acceptance event. “As many of you know we are missing a segment…and this is going to help us go a long way in building and constructing that piece.” The announcement of the generous donation was made at Tuesday’s Gainesville City Council meeting by Assistant City Manager Angela Sheppard. Through the food-processing giant’s “Hometown Strong” program $785,000 is headed to Gainesville for the purpose of filling a gap in the trail’s route structure while adding a trail connection to the company’s facility along Industrial Boulevard. GAINESVILLE – Thanks to the largest donation ever received by the City of Gainesville a portion of the Highlands to Islands trail system will be able to be completed sooner than expected.Ĭolorado-based Pilgrim’s Pride annually re-invests in the communities where it has operations and Gainesville is one of those communities.
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