HP Hood LLC is closing its Crowley Foods plant’s manufacturing, warehousing and customer-service divisions in Albany, N.Y. and laying off 80 people. The plant’s distribution and sales divisions will remain open.
Martucci noted that Crowley recently lost an account to provide milk to the Price Chopper supermarket chain, and said workers were told the closure is resulting from low production volumes at the plant. But Bohan said the decision to close the plant did not result from decreasing sales or demand for Crowley products, adding also that it did not result from the workers’ work quality.
Indeed, a 2006 study by the Cornell University Department of Food Science said the Albany plant produced the highest-quality milk in the state. On Tuesday, Kathryn Boor, the professor who runs the study, said she was disappointed and saddened to learn of the coming shutdown.
3 Comments on “N.Y. Crowley Plant Closing”
It’s a big lost to many if a company closes down which is tagged as producing the “highest quality milk” in the state. Aside from the employees losing a job, consumers will also lost the opportunity of having a daily fresh and quality milk on their table. Perhaps Crowley Plant should rethink their decision, maybe they just neglected some important factor that causes their loses. I suggest they give it another month or so and see how it goes, providing a new system and strategy of course.
It’s a big lost to many if a company closes down which is tagged as producing the “highest quality milk” in the state. Aside from the employees losing a job, consumers will also lost the opportunity of having a daily fresh and quality milk on their table. Perhaps Crowley Plant should rethink their decision, maybe they just neglected some important factor that causes their loses. I suggest they give it another month or so and see how it goes, providing a new system and strategy of course.
It’s a big lost to many if a company closes down which is tagged as producing the “highest quality milk” in the state. Aside from the employees losing a job, consumers will also lost the opportunity of having a daily fresh and quality milk on their table. Perhaps Crowley Plant should rethink their decision, maybe they just neglected some important factor that causes their loses. I suggest they give it another month or so and see how it goes, providing a new system and strategy of course.