Antioch will soon lose a business as Brown Cow Yogurt announced recently it will shut down its Antioch operation and head to Fort Worth Texas.
The following statement was provided by Steve Jerkins, Brown Cow General Manager and Esteve Torrens, Stonyfield CEO, below.
“After careful consideration, we’ve adopted a plan to transition production of Brown Cow yogurt from its current location in Antioch, California to a more modernized facility in Texas within our Groupe Danone family of companies. We deeply regret the impact this planned closure will have on our Antioch employees, and we’re working diligently to assist them as they look for other employment opportunities both internally and externally.
We’ll continue to make our most popular Brown Cow yogurts, including our unique Cream Top yogurt, and to use the wholesome ingredients that make Brown Cow yogurt special.”
Brown Cow was a family owned Company 12 years ago and was sold to Stonyfield Farm. About 3 years ago 80% of Stonyfield shares were sold to Danone (who also owns Dannon USA).
The move will close its building on Delta Fair as well as close its manufacturing facility behind the police station. The number of employees who are going to be effected was not provided and no date was given on when the closure will occur.
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Please don’t move! Please don’t laid off your employees to save money! You will lose customers and the product will become cheap, what a sad day for Antioch.
They just saved 15% by switching their operation to Texas. So easy a caveman could do it.
I expect nothing less from the City of Antioch. And they wonder why no one wants to come here. City employees attitude is who cares.
I’m sure it has a lot more to do with the state than the city. They know the bill for Jerry Brown’s bullet train will have to be paid back someday.
This is soooo wrong! Everyone in Antioch needs too protest this move and stop the layoffs! Please join me in protesting the move and help stop good workers from losing there jobs to other states. See you all there at 3810 Delta Fair Blvd, Monday morning 2/10, 8am sharp! Protest till the last day they close or till they change there minds! Let do it peaceful!!! Sue
Why don’t you and your club peacefully start your own yogurt company right after they leave?? Sounds like there will be a huge yogurt void in Antioch.
Its not for the yogurt, Its for the workers losing there jobs and for Antioch to stop losing business. Wake up Sharky!
Ongoing disincentive by the State toward businesses. What’s the point of staying? I’d leave if I could… Do they know where taxes come from?
Texas…………the state that has created more minimum wage and government jobs than any other since the economic crash. It also has the highest child poverty rate as well as the highest rate of uninsured people in the nation. That’s the downside to drawing all that business down to Texas with favorable(read no) business taxes. Businesses make TONS of money……..employees make squat. Growing income disparity and a drive toward a two class society.
http://www.texastribune.org/2013/12/03/report-texas-child-poverty-increases/
But look on the bright side, you can also ignore science and history by rewriting the textbooks to further your religious beliefs. You do that by pressuring all those textbook publishers you’ve drawn down there over the years and squeezing the education boards that you’ve stacked with appointees to change the curriculum. That whole separation of church and state thing is so annoying anyway.
If that’s your idea of Camelot, call U-Haul now and get the truck rented. I’ll help you pack.
To answer your question, taxes are the price you pay for a civilized and modern society. If you don’t agree with the trade-off, there are other options for a lower standard of living out there for you. Don’t mind the falling down bridges and the brown water in the tap. You saved a buck on your taxes and that’s all that matters, right?
“… taxes are the price you pay for a civilized and modern society” may sound good, but it certainly isn’t validated by history.
Taxes have been collected for hundreds of years, and are by no means directly related to civilized, modern or Egalitarian societies.
Have you heard about lots of people falling off bridges and drinking brown water in Texas? From recent news reports, that sounds more like something one would expect in Sochi which is not exactly the Mecca of tax freedom.
Don’t Mess with Texas!
Hey, cowboy.
The bridge collapses were a general reference to decaying US infrastructure. We have ignored them for a couple generations now because we’ve been too busy giving tax breaks to corporations and the rich. Check with the nice folks of the Midwest and the East if you need brown water examples. Flaming water or poisoning water is also a growing phenom in coal rich areas or where fracking is done heavily.
The Right wants to eliminate the EPA because nothing is more annoying to big business in places like West Virginia than people whining about their drinking water being poisoned by an industrial spill. In Calif we do it with MTBE or remnants of “progress” in Silicon Valley’s earlier days from the semiconductor industry. But we’ve exported most of those factories and have moved on to poisoning the Chinese, the Indians and increasingly the Vietnamese to support our lifestyles.
If you question any of those took place, I’m happy to provide links.
If you are going to imply taxes are not necessary(and you definitely did) for a superpower society, then I presume you’ll have no problem providing an example?
Mostly I find it interesting how the focus of my previous post was on the poverty, particularly involving children(30 percent by some estimates), but you chose not to go there.
The premise that taxes are indicative of a civilized society is completely false.
Taxes are simply the government taking from it’s citizens to do what it wishes – good or bad, efficient or wasteful, civilized or savage.
The Founding Fathers tended to favor smaller Federal government with less involvement into our daily lives, which is neither particularly civilized or savage.
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