Coca-cola Manufacturer To Shutter Major Southern California Plant

A location Coca-Cola shaper will unopen down a works successful Ventura aft over 100 years successful production.

Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling will adjacent nan works connected July 10, nan institution announced successful a caller authorities filing.

“We regularly measure our locations, products and services to guarantee we tin proceed driving sustainable maturation and invention crossed our business,” a spokesperson for Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling told SFGate.

Employers must taxable a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, aliases WARN notice, to alert employers, authorities and section officials astatine slightest 60 days earlier awesome layoffs. The first announcement was submitted Friday.

A full of 85 labor will beryllium affected by nan closure, according to nan notice. Seventy-eight of them will beryllium reassigned to different facilities, and nan remainder will beryllium capable to use for unfastened roles astatine different Coca-Cola plants, a institution spokesperson told SFGate.

Operations from nan Ventura works will beryllium transferred to different Southern California facilities.

A spokesperson for Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Coca-Cola unopen down a Bay Area works successful American Canyon successful precocious December. That closure affected astatine slightest 45 workers, according to nan WARN notice. Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling besides shut down its Salinas location successful June.

Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling is simply a subdivision of Reyes Holding, which manages awesome brew and portion distributors and McDonald’s largest world distributor. Reyes Holding began distributing Coca-Cola successful 2015 and officially formed Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling successful 2022.

The institution runs 22 manufacturing centers successful California, including 2 accumulation and distribution centers successful Los Angeles. The institution operates 50 accommodation crossed 10 states.