Charlotte, N.C.-based Compass Group USA and San Fernando, Calif.-based Recent and Prepared Meals are shedding 65 staff on the firm’s Dallas manufacturing facility at 818 Metromedia Place, in response to a layoff discover filed with the Texas Workforce Fee.
If an organization has greater than 100 staff and lays off 50 or extra staff, it should present a 60-day discover to the TWC, in response to The Employee Adjustment and Retraining Act.
Compass Group’s and Recent and Prepared’s staff usually are not represented by a union and can start being laid off on August 30. The power will shut down operations on September 30.
Compass Group USA didn’t reply to a number of emails and cellphone interview requests by the point of publication. Nevertheless, a Recent and Prepared spokesperson mentioned it’s closing its Dallas facility to consolidate its websites.
“For the reason that lease at our Metromedia Place location was not renewed, our group is consolidating our commissary operations within the higher Dallas space,” they mentioned. “Sadly, this implies we should notify our valued staff that their positions can be eradicated at this location. We’re doing all the things we will to assist make this transition as easy as doable, together with connecting them with different open positions with our firm within the space.”
The manufacturing facility is a little bit over 10 minutes southwest of Dallas Love Field and is correct off John W. Carpenter Freeway.
Recent and Prepared Meals, a grab-and-go caterer, is a division of Compass Group. Compass Group is a meals service firm that purchased Recent and Prepared Meals in 2021.
The power closure and layoffs come 5 months after Recent and Prepared Meals voluntarily recalled four kinds of torta sandwiches attributable to a doable listeria monocytogenes contamination. These gadgets have been offered in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah.
On the time, no diseases have been reported to be associated to these merchandise.
Recall apart, Compass Group’s numbers look sturdy as its half-year report on Might 15 acknowledged that the corporate’s income is $20.9 billion, an 11.2% improve because the similar level final yr. It leaves the corporate with an working revenue of 1.4 million, nearly 19% greater than final yr.
Recent and Prepared Meals nonetheless has manufacturing amenities in Schiller Park and Franklin Park in Illinois and its house base of San Fernando, Calif. It additionally has distribution facilities in Las Vegas and San Francisco, in response to its website.
“It’s a very thrilling time within the enterprise. We’re additional strengthening our aggressive benefits, turning into an much more targeted enterprise and rising strongly,” said Dominic Blakemore, Compass Group’s CEO throughout the Might 15 earnings name. “We’ve got a number of levers to drive income and revenue and a confidence in sustaining mid to excessive single-digit income development. It is going to allow us to develop revenue forward of income.”