No More Ketchup

by Barbara McMahon

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No More Ketchup

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Barbara McMahon

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Photograph - Photography

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This image is on the exterior wall of the Heinz Ketchup Co. in Leamington Ontario. H.J. Heinz Co. will close its 104 year old Leamington, Ont., processing plant in June 2014, costing 740 people their jobs. Heinz closed three plants in North America, including Florence, SC (200 employees); Pocatello, ID (410 employees); and, Leamington, ON in Canada (740 employees).
Billionaire Warren Buffett chose to close its Leamington plant. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, along with 3G capital, bought H.J. Heinz Co. for $23.3 billion US earlier this year.
The Leamington plant is the second largest Heinz plant in the world and has employed thousands of workers from southwestern Ontario since 1909.
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From Wikipedia: Leamington is a municipality in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. With a population of 28,403, it is the second largest municipality in the Windsor-Essex County area (after the separated municipality of Windsor, Ontario). It includes Point Pelee, the southernmost point of mainland Canada. It has a large H. J. Heinz Company factory and is known as the "Tomato Capital of Canada", with 4 km￿ of this crop in the vicinity. It also lays claim to being the "Sun Parlour" of Canada due to its southern location.

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January 18th, 2014

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