The first round of layoffs at the Silver Springs Bottled Water Co., which was scheduled for New Year’s Eve, saw the release of 73 employees of the company, while the remaining dozen employees are scheduled for termination by the end of March.
According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed by Niagara Bottling, LLC with the Florida Department of Commerce, 73 employees comprised of fork lift operators (22), production operators (22), and nearly two dozen other positions were released from the Ocala facility during its initial terminations on December 31.
Established in 1986, Silver Springs Bottled Water Company was purchased by the Richmond family in 1991. The former company’s website shows the officers at the time of sale were Kane, Kirk, and Keith Richmond…