Subscribe Thousands of North Jersey residents made a good living working there. Those jobs, which have supported families from District 38 and the surrounding area, are being lost due to corporate greed, they said. We condemn the choice to cut ties with a community that so proudly supported and contributed to the success of Mondelez/Nabisco.
Operations at the Fair Lawn site as well as a site in Atlanta will end as soon as this summer, senior director of corporate and government affairs North America Laurie Guzzinati told Patch Friday.
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One site in Richmond, Virginia, will remain the east coast hub of operations for the brand, and will take over the Oreo production currently being done in Fair Lawn.
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The sweet smell of baked goods that has wafted over Fair Lawn since the Nabisco plant opened in 1958 will fade away this summer when the plant is shut down.
Mondelēz International on Thursday told the 600 employees at the facility along Route 208 that a final decision was made to shut it down. They also will close an 80-year-old plant in Atlanta in order to consolidate its east coast operations to a single facility in Richmond, Virginia. Plants in Illinois and Oregon will remain open.
Employees and their union were first notified in November that closing the plant was under consideration. The closure will happen in a phased approach with production ramped down and a complete shutdown sometime over the summer, spokeswoman Laurie M. Guzzinati told New Jersey 101.5.