Vermont Business Magazine Unilever has announced plans to close its manufacturing facility in Henderson, NV. The plant manufactured or Ben & Jerry’s Homemade and Breyers, among others. The closure will affect approximately 300 employees. Production will transfer to ice cream manufacturing factories in Vermont, Sikeston, and Covington. Unilever declined to specify further how this would effect local manufacturing or employment, when asked by VBM. Ben & Jerry's has plants in St Albans and Waterbury. Ben & Jerry's employs 735 in Vermont.
Ice cream production at the facility will cease effective August 30. Closure of the site will be completed in Q4 2019. There will be no impact to customers or consumers, who will continue to receive the same great ice cream products they have come to expect from Unilever.
The Ben & Jerry's plant at the St Albans Town Industrial Park. VBM file photo.
Unilever said in a statement that it is committed to assisting its affected employees through placement services and training to maximize their employability for the future.
The Henderson plant manufactures ice cream and frozen novelties including Breyers, Magnum, Popsicle, Good Humor, Klondike and Ben and Jerry’s.
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods & Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2.5 billion consumers a day. In the United States and Canada, the portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Ben & Jerry’s, Breyers, Degree, Dollar Shave Club, Dove, Hellmann’s, Klondike, Knorr, Lever 2000, Lipton, Love Beauty and Planet, Magnum, Nexxus, Noxzema, Pond’s, Popsicle, Pure Leaf, Q-tips, Seventh Generation, Simple, Sir Kensington’s, St. Ives, Suave, Talenti Gelato & Sorbetto, TAZO, TIGI, TRESemmé and Vaseline.
Source: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – June 20, 2019 –Unilever