RIPON, WI (WTAQ) – TreeHouse Foods will close its cookie plant in Ripon, putting about 60 people out of work.
TreeHouse says there isn’t enough demand for those to keep the plant open. It makes private label sugar wafer cookies for grocery retailers. T
TreeHouse says it is working to eliminate excess capacity. The Oak Brook, Illinois, company will offer severance pay.
“Full facility closure and the end of production at Ripon is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2016,” a news release states.
Another plant in California will also close, putting 660 people out of work there.
Closing the plants will cost TreeHouse about $17 million, or 19 cents per share, over the next five quarters through the second quarter of next year.
TreeHouse purchased the facility from ConAgra. Another plant in Ripon closed last year, putting 285 people out of work. TreeHouse acquired ConAgra in February.
