MODESTO — Dawn Food Products will close its three Modesto manufacturing plants in March, which will cost 265 workers their jobs.
Dawn officials say the closures are part of their corporate plan for "enhancing manufacturing operations and increasing efficiency."
The Michigan-based Dawn and its predecessor, Bunge Foods, have been making frozen cakes, cake mixes and other dry-mix bakery products in Modesto since 1996. Dawn leases 125,000 square feet in three buildings in the Beard Industrial District.
Layoffs begin March 10.
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