Rise Baking Company plans to close its Kent manufacturing facility and lay off all 120 employees.
The Washington State Employment Security Department received a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice March 12 about the closure. The beginning date of separation is Aug. 7.
Rise Baking Company is at 21331 88th Pl. S., Building F, just south of South 212th Street and west of Highway 167. The facility is one of about 20 locations Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Rise Baking Company has across the nation. It is the company’s only facility in the Pacific Northwest…