THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, June 27, 1994 TAG: 9406250147
SECTION: BUSINESS WEEKLY PAGE: 19 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: 940627 LENGTH: Short
to cut Carolina jobs
WINSTON-SALEM - About 140 textile workers from North Carolina and South Carolina are among the 1,025 workers to be laid off from Sara Lee's textile division, the company said.
The layoffs are the final round of job cuts that began earlier this month when Sara Lee announced it would slash nearly 3,000 jobs as part of a cutback plan.
{REST} About 40 jobs will be cut at the textile division's headquarters in Winston-Salem, spokeswoman Nancy Young said.
The exact numbers, she said, hadn't been identified for other locations, but between five and 40 jobs will be cut at Sara Lee factories in Weaverville, Asheville and Clayton, N.C., and Gaffney, S.C.
A similar number of jobs also will be eliminated at two distribution centers, she said.
\ Testing firm to be sold
RICHMOND - HazWaste Industries Inc. will be sold to a California company, the Richmond-based pollution cleanup and testing firm said.
Earth Technology Corp., based in Long Beach, Calif., is buying the privately held Virginia company for 2.3 million shares in public stock, valued at about $29 million.
The transaction, expected to be completed by Thanksgiving, would create a company with about $200 million in annual revenue and 1,800 employees in 42 offices across the nation. The California company employs 80 people at offices in Charlottesville and Alexandria.
HazWaste and its subsidiaries have about 300 employees and 10 offices, including its corporate headquarters in Richmond.
by CNB