by Associated Press Published: May 16,2013
Tags: employ, employee, employer, employment, facility, food, job, layoff, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, meat, plant, processing, slicing, unemployment, work, worker
BOONEVILLE — Plumrose USA has laid off 100 workers at its meat slicing plant in Booneville, Miss. COO Mike Rozzano tells the Daily Corinthian workers were notified last Friday. Rozzano says the plant now has about 320 workers. He says business dictated that Plumrose didn’t need as many people in the plant. Plumrose slices beef, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 12,2013
Tags: Chicken, death, fatality, fine, food, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, penalty, poultry, processing, processor, workplace safety
MOSELLE — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Southern Hens Inc. with 43 safety and health violations following the death of a worker who slipped and fell into an unguarded screw conveyor while cleaning the conveyor at the company’s Moselle facility. OSHA initiated the inspection Sept. 9, 2012, in [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 16,2012
Tags: agriculture, economic development, facility, grant, indians, job, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, Native Americans, packing, plant, processing, produce, tribe, work
CARTHAGE — The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) to help establish a fresh produce and packing business at the former Patriot Ford facility in Carthage. MBCI says the grant will be utilized over a three-year period to renovate the Patriot Ford facility [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: October 15,2012
Tags: commerical, culture, damage, facility, fire, fish, food, Heritage, historic, history, ice, industrial, plant, processing, processor, property, real estate, seafood, shrimp
PASCAGOULA — The brothers who own the Pascagoula Ice and Freezer Co. say they have no plans to reopen the site, which burned in February. The Sun Herald reports the business is owned by three brothers, Andre, Warren and David Gautier. Andre Gautier moved the shrimp-processing segment to Mobile, Ala. Warren Gautier retired, and David [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 30,2012
Tags: agriculture, Chicken, construction, farm, farmer, farming, food, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, plant, poultry, processing, processor, Site Selection
LAUREL — A Mississippi poultry processor has selected a site in Nash County, N.C., for a new chicken plant. Sanderson Farms says no decision has been made on when to start work on the plant near Interstate 95 and N.C. 97 southwest of Rocky Mount, N.C. Chairman and CEO Joe F. Sanderson Jr. says the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: July 19,2012
Tags: acquisition, Chicken, dairy, eggs, food, food processing, merger, poultry, processing, processor
JACKSON — Cal-Maine Foods Inc. has reached an agreement to acquire the commercial egg operations of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation. Terms were not disclosed. The assets to be purchased by Cal-Maine include two production complexes with capacity for approximately 1.4 million laying hens and adjacent land located near Pittsburg, Texas. The company expects to close the [...] [...]
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