date:May 09, 2012
The company will close its plants in Amarillo, Texas; Garden City, Kansas; and Waterloo, Iowa on 25 May, resulting in a loss of more than 650 jobs; however, its plant in South Sioux City, Nebraska will continue to run at reduced capacity.
Beef Products spokesman Rich Jochum said the company officials had hoped to recover but have since realised that doing so was not possible in the immediate future.
We will continue communicating the benefits of BPI's lean beef, but that process is much more dif