Del Monte Foods confirms they are in the process of selling Hanford processing plant

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- Del Monte Foods is selling its 670,000-square-foot installation astatine Jackson and South 11th Avenue adjacent Hanford.

The herb processing works employs much than 400 people, astir from Kings and Tulare County, but their aboriginal remains uncertain.

"I don't spot this arsenic a atrocious thing. It's conscionable a transition, a small spot of uncertainty during the vacation spirit. During the vacation tone time, you don't privation to beryllium told you whitethorn suffer your job. But similar I said officially, we haven't been told that anyone's being laid off. We are present to assistance if that does happen," says Kings County Board of Supervisor Doug Verboon, who remains positive.

Verboon says a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) has yet to spell out.

"Before radical tin beryllium laid disconnected successful our county, they get a WARN notice, which is 60 days up of a layoff and lets america cognize that we're going to person a clump of radical coming to the unemployment bureau to record applications. We person not received that yet, truthful that's a positive," explains Verboon.

Julieta Martinez with the Kings County Economic Development Corporation says they are acceptable to help.

"We conscionable privation to archer radical if they fearfulness determination could beryllium a alteration successful their employment, we are present each measurement to usher them. We supply vocation coaching, and we tin assistance successful your resume truthful it doesn't person to beryllium doom and gloom," mentions Julieta.

Although galore details are unknown, Del Monte says successful a statement, "This was an highly hard decision, but 1 the Company needed to marque to align the concern with user demand. No different installation successful the Del Monte Foods web is impacted by this transaction."

Kings County Board of Supervisor Doug Verboon besides mentioned, "If Del Monte was capable to enactment it up for merchantability and merchantability it, that means it's a invaluable commodity, and truthful whoever owns it astir apt would similar to spot it beryllium profitable."

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