Campbell's to close Tualatin plant, lay off 120 employees in August

Campbell’s has announced it will close its Tualatin plant, eventually resulting in the loss of 330 employees, the soup giant announced on its website on Tuesday, May 28.

“The site consists of multiple leased buildings of approximately 250,000 square feet. The aging facility and inefficient nature of the site’s configuration can no longer support the increased consumer demand and continued growth of the business,” said a statement on the Campbell Soup Company website.

The Oregon plant, which produces Pacific’s organic soup, broth and plant-based beverages, employs 330 people. It plans to move the plant’s products to other locations and manufacturing partners, laying off all 330 employees by summer 2026.

Under requirements of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, also known as WARN, Campbell’s sent a notice of layoffs to Tualatin Mayor Frank Bubenik saying it will close the plant in three distinct phases.

An initial 120 employees will be let go by Aug. 2, followed by another 10 by Jan. 31, 2025. A final 200 employees will be gone by July 26, 2026. Among those last 200 workers will be approximately 14 employees at the company’s Wilsonville warehouse and distribution facility. That facility is not closing and will continue to operate, Campbell’s officials said.

The soup company also reported that it will move production of its kettle potato chips from its Jeffersonville, Indiana, plant to its Charlotte, North Carolina, and Hanover, Pennsylvania, plants. That will impact approximately 85 of its 230 employees in Jeffersonville, the company said.

Campbell’s purchased Tualatin’s Pacific Foods of Oregon Inc. in 2017 for $700 million. At that time, the company, which was running a certified organic plant, employed 540 people.

Founded in 1987, Pacific Foods was known for its lines of organic soups and other shelf-stable products, including non-dairy milk alternatives.