Jobs Coming To Jonesboro Plant
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Frito-Lay Incorporated announced today that
production would be adjusted at its Jonesboro plant, bringing in
work from a plant closing in Kentucky but also shutting down two
older lines.
Plano-based company spokesman Charles Nicolas says about ten
jobs will be added at Jonesboro over the next couple of months.
The closing of the 41-year-old plant at Louisville, Kentucky,
will put 326 people out of work.
Production will shift to newer plants in a strategy by PepsiCo
Incorporated, its parent firm, to streamline snack food and
beverage operations.
The Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce office lists the
Frito-Lay plant as employing 644 people, making it the region`s
sixth-largest employer. The plant opened in 1997 at a 140-acre site
in an industrial park at the city`s eastern edge. The 400,000-square-foot plant makes corn chips and potato chips.
Four other plants will also take on production from Kentucky.
