Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated his claim Tuesday evening that he would stop eating Oreos, citing the cookie maker’s decision to close a plant in Chicago and move it to Mexico.
“I’m never eating Oreos again,” Trump said, before adding that he would consider it if he could find some that were made in the U.S.
Trump’s claim is partly true.
Oreo’s parent company Mondelez International Inc. said last month that it decided to invest $130 million in building four new production lines at a plant in Mexico, which will replace nine older production lines at its Chicago plant.
That will mean the number of jobs at the Chicago plant will go from about 1,200 to about 600, said Laurie Guzzinati, a Mondelez representative. But the plant in Chicago will remain open.
Guzzinati said the decision to invest in the Mexico plant came after discussions with union representatives for workers at the Chicago plant. She said the company determined that the new production lines would cost $46 million less per year in Mexico than in Chicago, and said labor was “one of many factors.”
Guzzinati noted that Oreos continue to be made in some U.S. plants, including in New Jersey, Oregon and Virginia.
The Mondelez plant in Salinas, Mexico, opened in late 2014, and the four additional production lines are expected to be completed by mid-2016. Two of those lines will make Oreo cookies, Guzzinati said.
Mondelez, which also makes Chips Ahoy cookies and Trident gum, has said its “supply chain reinvention plan” is part of its broader push to slash costs and improve productivity.
(AP)
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Boo Hoo. It is trump’s loss. Oreos are the best selling cookie in the world. I doubt that losing one customer will matter much. BTW how many did he eat perday?
Seems like rockstar energy drink “horchata” flavor was designed intentionally bad. Its like a high-tech repulsive echo.
(Not that i condone use of such substances)
Watch them change the flavor now that somebody said something
what a moronic fool, who cares about his opinion.
but he should support a new factory in Mexico, that will open up good jobs for Mexicans so they won’t come here!
Its Trumps secret way of pandering to the Black vote. For those who have no clue what I mean let me explain. “Oreos” (black on the outside, white on the inside) is a term used to describe Blacks who act white & are hated by their fellow blacks. So by Trump swearing off Oreos he’s standing with the “REAL” blacks through and through.
#2 u see, horchata has real potential to be one of their major flavors, like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry. The rockstar drink tastes so bad it seems an attempt to circumvent it, like a smear campaign.
After tasting that rockstar drink, every time i think about horchata i stop short of gagging and getting a headache..