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End of the Line for Avon Workers in Ohio

Production shifts to Mexico and contract manufacturers.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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Corporate executives are usually loathe to cut workers in December. Not Avon. As part of its previously announced restructuring plans, Avon Products Inc. will begin to lay off manufacturing workers in its Springdale, Ohio, facility in December. Avon plans to close the factory by mid-2012. The closure is expected to affect 400 employees. Avon announced the plan to close the plant in July 2009, stating that production would shift to its manufacturing sites in Morton Grove, IL, and Celaya, Me...

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