Star Business reporter Madhavi Acharya-Tom Yew has the details on Wrigley’s decision to leave. It will cost the City 383 jobs at the long-standing factory and office at 1123 Leslie, she reports. Wrigley seemed eager however to reassure Toronto that it will keep a permanent staff of some 1,200 here in sales, marketing and manufacturing after the layoffs on Leslie. Production at the plant will be reduced in seven phases and job cuts will be staggered as manufacturing is shifted to Wrigley’s Gainesville, Georgia, facilit. The company said it will offer “a lengthy period of working notice, favorable severance packages, career transition support, reasonable paid time off to attend job interviews and counseling,” to affected employees. Wrigley is owned by candy bar maker Mars, Inc. The low-rise building has been part of the pleasant light industrial look of Leslie Street for decades. Many speculate that they will be looking up many storeys at what replaces it. Toronto StarWrigley plant on Leslie Street to close in 2016
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Star Business reporter Madhavi Acharya-Tom Yew has the details on Wrigley’s decision to leave. It will cost the City 383 jobs at the long-standing factory and office at 1123 Leslie, she reports. Wrigley seemed eager however to reassure Toronto that it will keep a permanent staff of some 1,200 here in sales, marketing and manufacturing after the layoffs on Leslie. Production at the plant will be reduced in seven phases and job cuts will be staggered as manufacturing is shifted to Wrigley’s Gainesville, Georgia, facilit. The company said it will offer “a lengthy period of working notice, favorable severance packages, career transition support, reasonable paid time off to attend job interviews and counseling,” to affected employees. Wrigley is owned by candy bar maker Mars, Inc. The low-rise building has been part of the pleasant light industrial look of Leslie Street for decades. Many speculate that they will be looking up many storeys at what replaces it. Toronto Star