Turkey giant Butterball to exit pork business, cut 600 jobs
Story Date: 5/22/2017

 

Source: TRIAD BUSINESS JOURNAL, 5/19/17

Butterball LLC, the Garner-based company best known for its turkey food products, announced to its 600 employees at its lone pork producing plant in Montgomery, Illinois, that it will be shutting the plant down in July. Butterball had acquired the plant in 2012 from Gusto Packing Co. for the purpose of expanding its processing capacity and the geographic expansion of the Butterball brand. 

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