It's going to be goodbye to Hello Fresh in South Jersey, as the meal-delivery firm prepares to close a facility with 374 jobs.
The company will leave its meal-assembly site at 1130 Commerce Blvd. in Logan by Nov. 17, according to a notice filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development.
The shutdown is a "transfer of operations" that's part of a cost-cutting program for the financially challenged firm, the notice said.
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The announcement came after Hello Fresh last month closed a similar plant in suburban Chicago. That affected 254 jobs, according to a notice filed with Illinois authorities.
Hello Fresh is "consolidating operations and concentrating production in high-volume sites, reflecting that our current facility footprint exceeds business needs," the latest notice said.
Workers are being offered similar jobs at Hello Fresh facilities in Newark, Colorado and Arizona.
The firm's parent company, HelloFresh Group of Germany, on Aug. 13 reported that revenue fell by 11.2% in the first half of its fiscal year. Meal kit orders dropped by 13.7% in the same period.
Hello Fresh said it has reduced its marketing expenses in favor of a "strategic focus on profitability and efficiency."
Hello Fresh, founded in Berlin in 2011, operates in 16 countries around the world.
Jim Walsh is a senior reporter for the Courier-Post, Burlington County Times and The Daily Journal. Email: [email protected].
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