Brandon’s Shape Foods goes into bankruptcy
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The oil run is over for food plant Shape Foods Inc., a floundering flax oil business.
The 25 staff who remained at the Brandon plant were told late last week that the company had officially gone into receivership, said one employee who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"Some suits came in from some company in Winnipeg and literally said, ‘You’re paid until the end of the day and you get your holiday pay,"’ the worker told the Brandon Sun.
It has been a rough couple of months for the plant, which laid off 27 employees in early August and then made the layoffs permanent in late September.
Shape Foods produced flax seed oil as well as blends of flax, sunflower and olive oils for use in cooking.
Production began last December, but the plant apparently hadn’t been pressing or bottling oil since late spring.
At the time of the initial layoffs, company officials cited a delay in getting Shape’s product onto store shelves in the United States.
"Obviously, with the layoffs, people knew there was a bit of trouble going on, but we thought it was just going to pull through," the former employee said. "We had no idea this was going to happen."
Doors at the facility are now locked, although arrangements can be made for staff who wish to collect personal belongings that are still in the building.
Company officials could not be reached for comment.
— Brandon Sun