"....the shutdown will see the disappearance of a colourful part of the candy-making industry begun with the Moir family in the 1870s.
Hershey bought the Dartmouth plant in 1987, in the process buying into a fascinating piece of Nova Scotia business history. Famous for making boxes of Pot of Gold chocolates, the operation was once based on Argyle Street in downtown Halifax, with the smell of chocolate always a treat for the passerby.
With a new home and new owners, life became sweet for the candy maker. In 2003, Hershey received a four-year payroll rebate from the Nova Scotia government to help with a $20-million expansion of its Dartmouth plant. The company would receive $750,000 in tax rebates if it created and maintained 100 new jobs in that period. Nearly another half million dollars was provided by taxpayers to buy land for the expansion."
...Take 1.25 Million in taxpayer money and 4 years later run like hell to Mexico...
Milton Hershey would be proud, wouldn't he ?
One more question ... why is it Hershey spent sooo much money improving the Smiths Falls & this plant in the last 5 years... only to close them ???
I do believe I've come up with the answer.... but I'm keepin' that one to myself.
1 comment:
Mike,
With SF Hershey's I have heard that the closing is all about the shit-disturbing the local union had caused for Hershey
Closing the plant was Hershey's way of having the last word and getting that union out of their hair
Travis
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