Frito-lay To Close San Bernadino County Warehouse, Lay Off 247 Employees

Frito-Lay, nan snack institution that makes Doritos and Cheetos, is laying disconnected 247 labor and closing its installation successful Rancho Cucamonga, nan institution confirmed Friday.

The immense storage will unopen down successful June. Frito-Lay announced past summertime that manufacturing operations astatine nan aforesaid location were coming to an end.

The works has been a awesome employer successful nan area since opening successful 1970, staffing thousands complete its 55-year run.

The Plano, Texas-based snack shaper revenge a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, aliases WARN notice, connected Feb. 10.

“We will beryllium shifting these operations to a caller distribution halfway successful nan section organization to amended service our customers and consumers,” nan institution said successful a connection to The Times. “We are committed to treating impacted labor pinch nan utmost care.”

Frito-Lay, owned by PepsiCo Foods, said nan affected labor will beryllium fixed salary and benefits continuation arsenic good arsenic profession support.

The installation successful Rancho Cucamonga opened successful 1970 connected Archibald Avenue. The institution introduced its celebrated Flamin’ Hot Cheetos successful 1990.

Richard Montañez, a erstwhile Frito-Lay employee, claimed for years that he invented nan spicy snack, but an investigation by The Times successful 2021 recovered he was not nan existent creator.

Frito-Lay operates much than 30 manufacturing accommodation crossed nan U.S. and Canada and much than 200 distribution centers. It labor astir 60,000 group successful North America.

The institution besides has proviso centers successful Torrance and adjacent Buena Park.

Its genitor company, PepsiCo, is based successful Harrison, New York. PepsiCo shares were unchangeable successful midday trading connected Friday astatine $164.48 per share. Shares person risen 10% complete nan past year.

The Rancho Cucamonga closure follows different PepsiCo installation shutdowns. The institution antecedently announced nan closure of a Frito-Lay works successful Liberty, N.Y., laying disconnected 287 workers, and trim 56 jobs astatine a storage successful Maryland.

Last year, Pepsi Chief Executive Ramon Laguarta said nan institution was “right-sizing nan cost” of its snacks section amid a driblet successful Frito-Lay sales.

San Bernardino County has seen different wide layoffs recently. In May, nan shipping elephantine DHL unopen down a package handling installation successful Ontario, impacting hundreds of employees.