TreeHouse Foods to Shutter Cereal Plant in Michigan

Private label food and beverage manufacturer TreeHouse Foods Inc. announced plans to close its ready-to-eat cereal plant in Battle Creek, MI in a press release Wednesday after the firm decided that continuing to operate the plant “would not be economically viable.”

Production at the Michigan plant is slated to be transferred to other cereal production sites in the company’s manufacturing network. 89 employees at the site will be impacted. 

TreeHouse’s planned closure of the plant is part of the TreeHouse 2020 restructuring program announced in August 2017, the release said. The launch of the multi-year effort aims further integration of the firm’s business and lower its costs in order to “invest in market-differentiated capabilities that will serve the rapidly evolving needs of its customers.”

$30 million will be spent to close the Battle Creek plant, the release said.

Based in Oak Brook, IL, TreeHouse operates more than 40 manufacturing sites in North America and Italy, according to the firm’s website.

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