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Sara Lee to close SC bakery, lay off 200 workers

Associated Press

Posted on November 22, 2009 at 3:44 PM

Updated Sunday, Nov 22 at 3:43 PM

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Officials with Sara Lee Corp. says 200 workers in South Carolina will lose their jobs when the company closes its bread factory in Greenville.

Sara Lee officials told the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg they have to close the bakery in January because they lost a major customer.

Spokesman Mike Cummins says the plant makes frozen dough and bagels for the food service industry.

Cummins says a few workers may be offered jobs at other plants, but the rest will get severance packages and help finding another job.

Sara Lee began operating the Greenville plant in 1984 after acquiring it from King's Hawaiian Bakery.

Greenville County's unemployment rate was 10.6 percent in October.

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Information from: Herald-Journal, http://www.goupstate.com/

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