PepsiCo announced last Thursday that it is closing its two-year old Gatorade plant located in Pryor’s Mid-America Industrial Park. The company has already stopped regular production work at the plant and plans to wind down operations during the next three months.
Pepsico says all of the approximately 100 employees will receive three months and one week of full pay with benefits plus outplacement services.
The Pryor facility was the largest of Gatorade’s nine manufacturing plants and produced both Gatorade and Propel Fitness Water drinks.
There had been two previous rounds of layoffs at the Pryor plant as 22 employees were let go in October 2008 and another 87 received pink slips in December 2008.
Source: Tulsa World and NewsOn6
