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Opened by Nabisco in 1956, This plant was a well known landmark in Northeast Philadelphia. It's nine story tower loomed over Roosevelt Boulevard and the small of cookies and chocolate wafted over the neighborhood day and night. Inside, about 700 workers manned eight ovens in three shifts allowing such familiar product names such as Oreo and Teddy Grahams to be baked nonstop.
After Phillip Morris bought out Nabisco in December 2000, the company operated this plant under its Kraft foods subsidiary. When Kraft spun off it's snack business in 2012, the resulting company-Mondelēz-continued operating the facility.
On Thursday September 12, 2010, the bakery became the latest scene of workplace violence when a disgruntled worker <a href="http://6abc.com/archive/7659454/"killed two and wounded another after being suspended from her job.
May 1st, 2015 was the last day of operation for the Philadelphia baker as Mondelēz claimed they wanted to consolidate jobs at newer facilities in New Jersey and Virginia. Union officials however <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/business/2015/07/10/boyle-oreo-mondolez/"suspected operations were being outsourced to Mexico.
Mondelēz <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/city/2016/01/29/nabisco-factory-to-be-sold-tower-to-be-demolished/"sold the property to a developer who has plans to build a retail center on the site, with one portion of the sprawling factory being reused as a distribution center. By the end of 2017, the landmark tower and adjoining structures were no more....
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Opened by Nabisco in 1956, This plant was a well known landmark in Northeast Philadelphia. It's nine story tower loomed over Roosevelt Boulevard and the small of cookies and chocolate wafted over the neighborhood day and night. Inside, about 700 workers manned eight ovens in three shifts allowing such familiar product names such as Oreo and Teddy Grahams to be baked nonstop.
After Phillip Morris bought out Nabisco in December 2000, the company operated this plant under its Kraft foods subsidiary. When Kraft spun off it's snack business in 2012, the resulting company-Mondelēz-continued operating the facility.
On Thursday September 12, 2010, the bakery became the latest scene of workplace violence when a disgruntled worker <a href="http://6abc.com/archive/7659454/"killed two and wounded another after being suspended from her job.
May 1st, 2015 was the last day of operation for the Philadelphia baker as Mondelēz claimed they wanted to consolidate jobs at newer facilities in New Jersey and Virginia. Union officials however <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/business/2015/07/10/boyle-oreo-mondolez/"suspected operations were being outsourced to Mexico.
Mondelēz <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/city/2016/01/29/nabisco-factory-to-be-sold-tower-to-be-demolished/"sold the property to a developer who has plans to build a retail center on the site, with one portion of the sprawling factory being reused as a distribution center. By the end of 2017, the landmark tower and adjoining structures were no more....