Hundreds Of Workers To Lose Jobs As Conagra Facility Closes

TRENTON, MO — Conagra has notified 282 workers in Trenton, Mo. of impending layoffs as it prepares to close its facility there. Most of the workers are production and production support personnel, while about 30 are managers or administrators.

Conagra is a Chicago-based packaged food company worth more than $13 billion. It is Trenton's largest employer and the facility's closing is expected to have a significant impact on the town's population of 6,000 people.

Layoffs will start in March, and Conagra expects all employees to be fired by the end of May — or, as the company puts it, "Conagra will begin separating employees from their employment on March 9...and expects to ultimately separate all employees by May 31."

The company is making the move, it said, to "improve efficiencies" and "eliminate redundancies."

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