Campbells soup among others leaving Cali.

[powderman]

Campbell Soup Leaving California   


California’s state song will soon be changed from "California, Here I Come!" to "California, There It Goes!" An American icon, the Campbell Soup Company, is closing its plant in Sacramento, leaving 700 people without jobs. The plant was built in 1947, and some of its workers have worked there for forty years or more.

Most of the items produced in Sacramento will be transferred to Campbell’s plants in Texas, North Carolina, and Ohio. Another plant in South Plainfield, New Jersey is being closed as well. Mark Alexander, the president of Campbell North America, said:
 

We recognize this is difficult news for employees in Sacramento and South Plainfield. Campbell is committed to helping them work through this transition. We expect the steps we’re announcing today to improve our competitiveness and performance by increasing our asset utilization, lowering our total delivered costs and enhancing the flexibility of our manufacturing network. These actions also will eliminate the capital investments needed to maintain the Sacramento plant.

 
 
 Campbell’s isn’t the only big business to flee California’s oppressive business climate this week. Comcast announced two days ago that it will close all three of its call centers in Northern California, including one in Sacramento. 1,000 Comcast employees, including 300 in Sacramento, will have to pull up stakes.

It used to be that people pulled up stakes to move to California; now the only stakes involved are the stakes driven through the dying state’s businesses’ collective hearts.


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ing-California 

[Conan The Librarian]

I worked for a company that had huge data centers for computer operations in the Sacramento area. When expansion was needed, they decided to close it instead of expanding. Stated reason was that they couldn't be guaranteed to get enough electricity to run the place. Not sure if that's true, but they did close it and those jobs went away forever.
 
The important thing to understand is that the state of California doesn't care about business. They've got a place that people want to live in, and having a lot of small businesses that serve local needs seems to satisfy them.
 
I remember in the early 1980s when the aerospace industry very quickly left the state. You could feel it.
 
 

[magooch]

So goes California--so goes the United States of America.

[Sourdough]

magooch:  Ya beat me to it.  That's what I have heard for a long time too.

[guzzijohn]

Sales are down and those were the two oldest, least efficient plants.
GuzziJohn

[Conan The Librarian]

That's what they always say, but they fail to mention that the costs of building a new up to date plant are about the same no matter where you build it, but regulatory costs and labor costs, and general business climate have a lot to do with what gets closed down and where the replacements get built.

[jhm]

     And the STATE will go Demacratic in Nov. no matter what happens, Just look around the country Big Cities that are mostly Dem. are the highest unemployed, the states with the most stricked regulations are loosing jobs, they reap what they sow!!  Jim

[powderman]

     And the STATE will go Demacratic in Nov. no matter what happens, Just look around the country Big Cities that are mostly Dem. are the highest unemployed, the states with the most stricked regulations are loosing jobs, they reap what they sow!!  Jim

 
JHM. Good post Sir, and true. POWDERMAN. 

[Empty Quiver]

The sooner all the Californians leave the sooner the state will be fit to live in. Remove the jobs remove the incentive to locate there.
 
It is an honest to God paradise, that is why everyone went to live there. Now there are too many people in general and too many Californians in particular.
 
I would be pleased as punch to retire there, when it has the same population density as North Dakota.    North Dakota needs people, California needs inteligent thought......... The solution is obvious.

[DDZ]

Sales are down and those were the two oldest, least efficient plants.
GuzziJohn

Yeah, I really doubt it had anything to do with the state squeezing money out of corporations and businesses, Or that the state is run by a bunch of Marxists.