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Monday, February 18, 2008

Valdosta plant gains employees in consolidation

Valdosta is the chosen site for a consolidation of a company with some of its operation in Tallahassee.

Institutional Jobbers, Incorporated, known as the IJ Company, will relocate and merge its Florida operation with its plant in Valdosta. The Knoxville, Tennessee-based food distribution company says it hopes to wrap the merger by April 1st. The company says there are 91 Valdosta employees--the 54 workers in Tallahassee have been offered jobs in Valdosta.

The IJ Company is among the top ten largest broad-line food service distributors in the nation.

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