Swift Beef Co. Closing Riverside Plant, Laying Off 374

Swift Beef Co. closing Riverside plant, laying off 374

Riverside-based Swift Beef Co., a unit of a global food processing giant from Brazil, plans to permanently lay off 374 workers at its Riverside meat processing factory by early February. Swift’s parent JBS USA Food Co. plans to invest more than $785 million in new plants outside of California. Nikki Richardson, a spokeswoman with Greeley, Colo.-based JBS USA, said in a statement issued to the Southern California News Group that the closure of th…

JBS to Shutter Southern California Beef Processing Plant

JBS Foods, the leading producer of beef in the United States, plans to close its Swift Beef Company processing plant in Southern California on Feb. 2, the company confirmed Monday. The company filed a notice with the California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system earlier this month, notifying the state of its plans, which will affect 374 employees at the 170,000-square-foot plant, located about an hour east of Los Angeles…

JBS closing beef plant in California, USDA cuts cattle price forecast

Reuters’ Tom Polansek reported that “JBS will permanently close a facility outside Los Angeles that prepares beef for sale at U.S. grocery stores, the world’s largest meat company said on