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Tupperware shutting down final US plant, transferring manufacturing to Mexico


Tupperware Brands is shuttering its final remaining manufacturing plant within the U.S. and transferring operations to Mexico, costing greater than 100 employees their jobs.

The enduring meals storage container maker issued a WARN Discover final week alerting that it plans to completely shut its facility in Hemingway, South Carolina, shedding 148 individuals.

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Tupperware introduced final week it’s closing down the final manufacturing facility within the U.S., and transferring operations to Mexico. (Chris Weeks/WireImage for Silver Spoon/through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)

The discover mentioned layoffs will start in September, with closing closure of the plant set for January 2025.

WCNB-TV reported that Tupperware offered the Hemingway plant final 12 months and plans to maneuver operations to Lerma, Mexico. Firm representatives advised the outlet most of its merchandise offered within the U.S. and Canada are already made in Mexico.

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“It’s necessary to notice this determination will not be a mirrored image of the efficiency of the Hemingway tea,” Tupperware mentioned in a press release to the WCNB. “We recognize every of our valued crew members and the various years of service they’ve devoted to our salesforce and to the Firm.”

The assertion added that eligible staff impacted by the layoffs might be provided severance packages and early retirement, in addition to the chance to attach with different companies at an upcoming job honest.

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Tupperware Manufacturers, primarily based out of Orlando, has suffered struggles lately, however is aiming for a turnaround underneath its new CEO. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)

FOX Enterprise reached out to Tupperware for remark.

Tupperware, primarily based in Orlando, Florida, has confronted a sequence of struggles lately.

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In 2020, the corporate initiated a turnaround plan and has been attempting to execute objectives together with enhancing profitability, strengthening its stability sheet and restructuring its debt, ever since.

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Nevertheless, in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) submitting in April 2023, Tupperware mentioned that “The Firm has concluded that there’s substantial doubt about its capability to proceed as a going concern for a minimum of one 12 months from the anticipated issuance date of its Type 10-Okay monetary statements.” 

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Tupperware appointed a new CEO, Laurie Ann Goldman, in October.

FOX Enterprise’ Ailslinn Murphy and Daniella Genovese contributed to this report.

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