A food distribution company shutdown its Portland operations and plans to layoff 96 workers.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors, a food distribution company, shut down its Northeast Portland operations on Tuesday and will lay off 96 workers, according to a WARN notice filed Tuesday.
The Detroit-based distributor operated a facility at 2401 Northeast Argyle Street, using the company name Western Boxed Meat Inc.
Employees will stay on the job until April 21, when the shutdown process is expected to be complete, CEO Karl Berger said in a letter.
Western Boxed Meat began as a family-run independent meat distributor in 1983 and has continued to operate under that brand name in the Pacific Northwest. In 1998, California-based Harvest Meat Company acquired Western Boxed Meat. Both are independent family-operated meat distributors.
Then in March 2017, Harvest Food Distributors merged with Sherwood Food Distributors, another family-run business, to create the Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors, and with that, a coast-to-coast network of meat distributions.
Harvest Sherwood did not provide the required 60-day notice for layoffs, citing a “faltering company exemption” in the letter. It does, however, intend to pay all employees the full 60 days’ notice.
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