Cole’s Shuts Muskegon Garlic Bread Plant After 80 Years, Laying Off 175 Workers

Muskegon bread factory shuts down after 80 years - as Gretchen Whitmer tours latest foreign country - The Midwesterner

While Gov. Gretchen Whitmer continues to court investments in Michigan from abroad, another home-grown company is shutting down shop after 80 years in business. Cole’s Quality Foods abruptly halted production at its Muskegon bakery on Wednesday, when workers were met with a notice as they arrived for their shift: “Attention all employees please come to the front office at the start of your shift,” WOOD reports. “The people that’s been there, … t…

Cole’s shuts Muskegon garlic bread plant after 80 years, laying off 175 workers

A company that pioneered frozen garlic bread more than 80 years ago has closed its longtime Muskegon manufacturing facility and laid off 175 people.  The move comes less than a year after the Devon family sold Cole’s Quality Foods Inc. to private equity-backed Furlani Foods, an Ontario-based maker of garlic bread... Please login to read all 509 words.