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Article: Alliance Laundry phasing out operations at Marianna plant.
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- News Herald (Panama City, FL)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2005
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Byline: Daniel Carson
Oct. 19--MARIANNA -- When Alliance Laundry Systems announced plans to close its Marianna facility last week, it didn't take long for employees to begin the search for new employment.
"They were coming into our center that Friday after the announcement was made," said Richard Williams, executive director of the Chipola Regional Workforce Development Board.
Alliance is moving its commercial laundry product line manufacturing and design operations from Marianna to its Ripon, Wisc., plant, with closure of its 310,000-square-foot Jackson County facility to be complete by August 2006.
About 400 Marianna employees will ...