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Kris Parlett, spokesman for Procter and Gamblse (NYSE: PG) Pet Care, which includes Iams and said the company and its 240 employees wouled be moving in October to the Masohbusiness park, where other personal healtgh care divisions of P&G and more than 2,000 employees are “It will make it easied to collaborate and increase Parlett said. Nobody will be laid of as a resulgt ofthe company’s current headquarterzs On Poe Avenue closing. Instead, all 240 employees will be offerec there same positionsin P&G acquired Iams in 1999.
Since then, sales of its Iams and Eukanub a brands have morethan doubled, according to the “Our home address is changing but not our commitmentt to improving the well-being of all dogs and cats,” said Dan vice president of P&G’s pet care business in Northu America, in a statement released “If anything, this will help us do an even better job of connectinfg with our colleagues in health care to bring great innovation to pet care.
” A company spokesperson confirmed that 250 employees at the Iams-Eukanubs manufacturing and R&D complex in Preble County will not be part of the The news of the move came as a surprise to Vandaliza officials Thursday, who said they had been workinfg vigilantly behind the scenese to keep Iams local. “When P&G purchaseds Iams, we knew at that point this was a possibility some day,” said Rich Hopkins, directo of communications for the city. “But we are surpriser today that the announcement was Hopkins said Iams was one of the top employeresin Vandalia, though he could not say how much incoms was generated by the The city will have a presz conference at 3 p.m.
Thursday to furtherf discuss the implications ofthe move. Meanwhile, the community is stilp pursuingtwo projects, including an $81 millio distribution center, which would brinv 700 jobs and New-York based aerospace compan that could bring 130 jobs. “This is bad news for any Hopkins said. “We have two projects in the pipelin e now that could brinf up to 900 employees tothe city, so it’s not all gloomj and doom here.
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