General Mills recently announced it will close three manufacturing plants in Missouri: a pizza-crust facility in St. Charles plus two pet-food operations in Joplin.
The move is part of a sweeping supply-chain restructuring push by the company. It comes as rising input costs, shifting global trade policies, and tighter margins weigh on food producers everywhere.
(Several big names are cutting jobs across the country.)
Though General Mills did not immediately release precise layoff figures, the closures are expected to affect a significant portion of the workforce at those plants…