date:Nov 26, 2014
Hormel Foods Corp. plant in Stockton, Calif., will close at the end of February 2015, the company announced Nov. 25. The plant manufactures Dinty Moore stew and Hormel Chili. Production will shift to other facilities.
Jeffrey Ettinger, president and CEO, said employees at the plant were notified of the closure late yesterday.
This was a difficult decision but a necessary step given available capacity in other more modern dry grocery facilities in the company, Ettinger said during an earnings c