Four hundred twenty-five Con Agra employees will be out of a job in February 2015 when the company's Carriage House manufacturing facilities shut their doors.
The changes affect Con Agra properties in Dunkirk, N.Y., and Fredonia, N.Y. The Buffalo News reported Wednesday.
"It's unbelievable. It's just a trickle down. These are decent-paying jobs and there are no jobs available. It's going to devastate the area," Dickerson told The News.
Ralcorp was nearing a $5 billion transaction to market off the plants, and additional functions it has to ConAgra The News reported.
Ralcorp who oversees the facilities unveiled plans for the re-organization a year and three months ago, two months prior to negotiations finishing on the aforementioned agreement.
Con Agra purchased Ralcorp in March 2013 in what is known as the largest maker of foods labeled independently, The acquisition also allowed ConAgra to grow in the cereal, crackers, and marketed under store brands The News reported.
"When they bought it from Ralcorp, they bought us to shut us down," Dickerson told The News.
The changes will occur in parts throughout the coming 11 months on a department by department basis The News reported Wednesday.
The company will then disassemble and send off food processing equipment to its properties in alternative communities, which will mostly include Buckner, Ky., The News reported.
Con Agra is expected to keep running its Sugar Kake Cookie plant in Tonawanda, N.Y., where sandwich crème cookies for Wal-Mart and other stores are made The News reported.
Carriage House has made condiments, sauces, salad dressing, table syrup, and a wide selection of beverage mixes, syrups, grape pulp, and juice The News reported.
Con Agra cautioned that the agreement would give 20 cents a share to all money it makes in 2014. This amounts to 25 cents smaller a share matching previous predictions by the company's higher ups.
