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By Betty Lin-Fisher
Beacon Journal business writer
POSTED: 02:04 p.m. EDT, Jun 17, 2009
Newell Rubbermaid will be laying off 135 employees beginning in August at its Macedonia plant, which makes Graco children's car seats.
The injection molding work currently done at the Macedonia plant will be shifted to the company's plant in Mogadore, which makes plastic parts for Rubbermaid products, said company spokeswoman Connie Bryant.
The Macedonia plant currently has 310 employees and will have 175 after the layoffs, which will continue until the end of the year, said Bryant.
The Macedonia plant will continue to assemble car seats and the company will consolidate outside storage space back into the plant for product distribution, according to a company news release.
The company said its Macedonia and Mogadore facilities have been operating below capacity. The company does not anticipate the transferred work requiring additional jobs in Mogadore, Bryant said.
The Mogadore plant has 580 full-time employees.
''These changes are necessary for us to continue offering high-quality U.S. manufactured products while operating more efficiently in a challenging economy,'' the company said.
The company said it explored other options before reaching the conclusion that it knew would affect employees and the local community.
Macedonia Mayor Don Kuchta said it's always bad news when people lose their jobs.
Kuchta said it was a good thing that 175 employees will remain.
''I know that we are keeping part of Graco here. I'm very, very grateful for that.''
Kuchta said he and other city officials were exploring whether the elimination of positions at the Graco plant would affect Newell Rubbermaid's Community Reinvestmenet Abatement, which the company received about five years ago. The city gave the company incentives with the state after the company brought an assembly line from China to the plant, Kuchta said. But that incentive required the company to maintain a certain level of employment for 10 years. Kuchta said he was not sure whether the remaining 175 employees at the plant would satisfy the requirements.
Newell shares in midday trading were up 11 cents to $10.53. However, that's down 40 percent from one year ago, including reinvested dividends and up 10.1 percent since January.
Betty Lin-Fisher can be reached at 330-996-
3724 or blinfisher@thebeaconjournal.com.
Newell Rubbermaid will be laying off 135 employees beginning in August at its Macedonia plant, which makes Graco children's car seats.
The injection molding work currently done at the Macedonia plant will be shifted to the company's plant in Mogadore, which makes plastic parts for Rubbermaid products, said company spokeswoman Connie Bryant.
The Macedonia plant currently has 310 employees and will have 175 after the layoffs, which will continue until the end of the year, said Bryant.
The Macedonia plant will continue to assemble car seats and the company will consolidate outside storage space back into the plant for product distribution, according to a company news release.
The company said its Macedonia and Mogadore facilities have been operating below capacity. The company does not anticipate the transferred work requiring additional jobs in Mogadore, Bryant said.
The Mogadore plant has 580 full-time employees.
''These changes are necessary for us to continue offering high-quality U.S. manufactured products while operating more efficiently in a challenging economy,'' the company said.
The company said it explored other options before reaching the conclusion that it knew would affect employees and the local community.
Macedonia Mayor Don Kuchta said it's always bad news when people lose their jobs.
Kuchta said it was a good thing that 175 employees will remain.
''I know that we are keeping part of Graco here. I'm very, very grateful for that.''
Kuchta said he and other city officials were exploring whether the elimination of positions at the Graco plant would affect Newell Rubbermaid's Community Reinvestmenet Abatement, which the company received about five years ago. The city gave the company incentives with the state after the company brought an assembly line from China to the plant, Kuchta said. But that incentive required the company to maintain a certain level of employment for 10 years. Kuchta said he was not sure whether the remaining 175 employees at the plant would satisfy the requirements.
Newell shares in midday trading were up 11 cents to $10.53. However, that's down 40 percent from one year ago, including reinvested dividends and up 10.1 percent since January.
Betty Lin-Fisher can be reached at 330-996-
3724 or blinfisher@thebeaconjournal.com.
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Akron, OH
Posted 02:29 PM, 06/17/2009
Bet they're relieved to know there's 1000 jobs awaiting them in Akron.
Posted 02:50 PM, 06/17/2009
But only 30 jobs to start with!
Orrville, Oh
Posted 03:40 PM, 06/17/2009
Newell Rubbermaid Stockholders (money marketers) demand Newel Rubbermaid Executive Officers lay off 135 employees.
This enables Newell Rubbermaid Stockholders to grease their portfolios with more stock dividends (money) quarterly. Newell Rubbermaid Stockholders market quarterly in the wholesale and retail price of Newell Rubbermaid product and service.
Reality demands Fathers disqualified for affirmative action with white skin, Union workers, consumers, taxpayers, and America’s grandchildren’s children; lottery, casino, and keno losers, unemployed workers, aliens, waitresses that pander for life for $2.00 per hour, insubordinate, low-income, defiant of realities demands volunteers without wages, nonunion parasites willing to work for fewer wages than they can afford life. Pay for these stock dividends (money) with money derived from wages or independent business profit. That gets only product or service!
Posted 03:53 PM, 06/17/2009
Retired, 30 > 0 (30 is greater than 0).
Akron, OH
Posted 04:17 PM, 06/17/2009
Should locals get hiring preference?
WKYC interviewed one of the PlusOne reps who was on site today.
"Sharelle Chatman... relocated from Columbus to start a new job with PlusOne."
Too bad that PlusOne didn't advertise its openings.
Snydertown, OH
Posted 04:30 PM, 06/17/2009
Did W visit Ohio again?? I swear every time he came to town another business let go of large amounts of people.
Ravenna, OH
Posted 05:00 PM, 06/17/2009
KR, no but GM, Chrysler filed bankruptcy and hundreds of dealers closed under Obamination's watch. This is the change you voted for.
Canton, Oh
Posted 07:21 PM, 06/17/2009
Not Brainwashed by the Media you seem to forget that they were going to go bankrupt when Bush was in office. Bush threw them a bone of 45 billion dollars and that wasn't enough to save them. Obama is cleaning up the mess that all started with Reganomics. It will take years to get this all straighten around.
Posted 09:45 PM, 06/17/2009
Are you on crack Loren? I'm sure the hundreds of stockholders/employees that used to work in Wooster demanded that the company close down one of the biggest employers in the city.
