Closing Nabisco factory would
put 600 out of work, end 40-year
chapter for one N.J. family
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com,
by
Rodrigo Torrejon
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
11/30/2020 12:54:13 PM
For Elaine Hristov and her family, the closing of the Nabisco Factory in Fair Lawn wouldn’t just mean another business shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic: it would be the close of a chapter in their family history. For a combined nearly 40 years, Hristov’s grandfather and mother worked in the iconic cookie plant overlooking Route 208, part of Mondelez International, Inc. Last week, it was announced that the Fair Lawn plant, open since 1958, may close for good by mid-2021.(Snip) Fair Lawn Mayor Kurt Peluso and U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer have already met with representatives from Mondelez, hoping to convince them to stay
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 11/30/2020 12:58:41 PM (No. 620023)
Socialism and capitalism / oil and water. Never the twain shall meet. Socialists have zero concept of business and free market economics
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
valinva 11/30/2020 1:13:42 PM (No. 620029)
When Nabisco was sold to a Mexican company, those jobs were already gone. It just took a few years to manifest. This has zero to do with the "pandemic" and everything to do with getting rid of expensive facilities and labor costs.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 11/30/2020 1:16:57 PM (No. 620031)
I expect to see a lot more of this if Biden gets in.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SALady 11/30/2020 1:18:08 PM (No. 620033)
Nabisco employees, remember this the next time you decide to vote for socialist Demon-Rat politicians to represent your state.
As long as you keep voting for anti-business Demon-Rat politicians, don't be shocked when business runs away as fast as they can (and takes their jobs with them)!!!
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I don't think Mondelez is a Mexican company. It's seems to be a new name for the whole Kraft/Nabsico/Etc. brands multinational corp, headquartered in Chicago. That being said, the article states Modelez is "closing the Fair Lawn [NJ] factory as a way of diminishing its geographic footprint." Uh, that sure sounds like they are planning to relocate that factory to Mexico, undoubtedly for the cheaper labor.
We Americans are fat. We don't need what Mondelez makes at cheaper prices. We need jobs in America and especially our food MADE IN AMERICA even if it means our snacks will be at slightly higher prices.
And then we need to slap some hefty tariffs on any foreign made, imported snacks/processed food.
AMERICA FIRST!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 11/30/2020 1:50:08 PM (No. 620059)
#2, the "Mexican company" is a made up name for the successor to Kraft Foods, where the company spun off the snack foods as a new company, and made up the name. Not, AFAIK, "sold to a Mexican company" although the foolish made-up name Mondelez (alegedly from "mondo" (world) and a weird version of delicious) does sound vaguely Mexican.
Huge global businesses have all the sentimentalism of a snake, so expecting them to care about a factory because many people's lives are affected is a vain hope.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/30/2020 2:07:34 PM (No. 620065)
Yeah, please stay but Dicktator Murphy will have to keep you closed for two more years. Suck it up and don't forget to pay your taxes.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FunOne 11/30/2020 2:11:30 PM (No. 620068)
The article was framed as a story about the personal family tragedy, and not so much toward identifying the rationale of Mondelez International in deciding to close it down. I suspect that the business climate in New Jersey might have been mentioned, but it was not. Oh, yes. there was a brief mention that the Governor stated that there was no better place than New Jersey to do business. Everyone knows how solid that statement is.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TXknitter 11/30/2020 2:43:27 PM (No. 620085)
Yes indeed, #2. The Mayor and the Congressman get all worried NOW because of how it makes them look, that’s all.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lazlototh 11/30/2020 3:21:06 PM (No. 620106)
#5, right on all counts. Mondelez makes absolutely nothing that people should eat. Our government's "food pyramid" got us into a lot of the trouble the country is in healthwise and yet the left thinks government healthcare is the answer. It isn't.
I feel horribly for anyone anywhere when a plant closes down and they work there or depend on it. But the only surprise here is that it didn't leave New Jersey even sooner; I think part of this is because Nabisco was headquartered in NJ for a long time. In a prior job I was in a Nabisco conference room once. They had big plastic bags full of mini-packs of Chips Ahoy and Oreos everywhere. It was really unsettling. At the time they were RJR/Nabisco and people were still allowed to smoke in the building too.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Donna M 11/30/2020 3:40:37 PM (No. 620115)
Mondelez is a widely derided name for the global company (somehow Nabisco or Kraft Foods, two highly trusted names worldwide, were not good enough). The changeover occurred in 2012. It's a made up name and a silly looking purple logo that looks like Willy Wonka designed it. The billions spent on design and conversion could have gone for upgrading facilities such as Fair Lawn.
That being said, it's just another business fleeing NJ. I hope all the workers there who voted D and for Mussolini Murphy get to repent at their enforced leisure.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
HotRod 11/30/2020 3:51:33 PM (No. 620120)
Due to high taxes and oppressive regulations, it's too expensive to do business in New Jersey. All the liberal democrat states are bleeding people and jobs.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 11/30/2020 5:22:31 PM (No. 620172)
A Democrat state, old machinery and unions. A perfect prescription for disappearing jobs.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/30/2020 6:15:49 PM (No. 620207)
I’ve been boycotting Nabisco for years - ever since they put out a television ad showing a homosexual couple and their adopted son and used the word “wholesome” as the catch-word for the ad. A couple of homosexual men and a ten year old boy - what could possible go wrong?
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One of many closing or leaving the country. Thanks Joe.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
judy 12/1/2020 4:49:05 AM (No. 620390)
Well.... Oreo cookies are made in Mexico....
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If NJ's socialist governor is correct that there's no better place to do business than New Jersey, then why is the multinational owner looking for the exit? All of no consequence; NJ can simply raise taxes to cover the losses.