The Jelly Belly manufacturing plant in North Chicago has permanently closed as of Friday after over 110 years in operation, resulting in dozens of employee layoffs.
Ferrara, the company that owns Jelly Belly Candy Company, announced in July it had made the “difficult decision” to end manufacturing operations at its plant in North Chicago.
The company said they performed a careful review of the current volumes produced at the plant and decided to move manufacturing to another facility.
The final day of plant production was Friday. 66 employees who worked at the plant have been laid off from the plant.
Ferrara previously said they were focused on helping their North Chicago team members by offering them different roles in other manufacturing facilities.
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