Board Sanctioned Massacre - Anonymous employee Ocean Spray Employee Review

1.0
Jul 12, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pros are a thing of the past...

Cons

Cons are all that is left... For those who ask if the board is aware of what is going on, well, you need not ask anymore. The outsourcing of IT and Finance along with the massive cuts here, there and everywhere are what the Board tasked their flashy new hatchet man to accomplish. The cooperative as we knew it does not exist anymore. Plants will be sold and all that will be left is a nice little office on Boston to “market” the brand. The greed of the large growers and top executives are all that matters. It is a shame. The small growers and long time dedicated corporate and manufacturing employees will ultimately pay the price. They showed their allegiance to the cooperative and what did they get in return? Nothing but heartache. But we the worker bees haven’t sold our souls to the devil. RIP Ocean Spray. It was nice to know you.

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Ocean Spray Response
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In July, Ocean Spray announced the final phase of its tech-led transformation, which will modernize our business and make it more flexible, as well as create more meaningful and strategic roles to deliver on our goals and growth strategy. Unfortunately, with that change, some of our colleagues will be transitioning out of our cooperative. We recognize the range of emotions this announcement caused, as demonstrated by these recent posts. We hope you will come speak with us about your feelings rather than post online-- we are here to help. We are confident this is the right business decision, both for our Farmer-Owners and for the health and growth of the business. Our goal has and will remain to treat any impacted colleagues with respect, provide them with assistance and transitional benefits, and also take care of our team as we move forward together. Our business strategy is working, we delivered on our commitments this year, and we are proud of the accomplishments all of our have colleagues worked so hard for. We remain excited and ready for the future.

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