Dallas-based Dean Foods Co., which has been hammered by lower retail milk prices, said Thursday it is cutting more jobs, and this time the cuts will fall harder on Dallas workers.
The nation’s largest dairy producer declined to list the number of jobs cut locally or say which departments were hardest hit. But the company said these cuts will affect local workers more than a round of job cuts last year, when the company eliminated 1,400 positions nationwide at more than 100 facilities.
“The majority of the 1,400-plus cuts in 2010 affected the field, i.e., non-corporate … employees,” Dean spokeswoman Liliana Esposito said in an email. “So these current reductions have a larger impact on Dallas than those that happened last year.”
Last year’s cuts were part of a companywide effort to pare costs by $300 million over three years.
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