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What Campbell's layoffs have meant for employees

Several of Campbell's closings followed the same reasoning, an aging or small plant whose products could be made elsewhere in its network. The president of Campbell Snacks called Columbus, Georgia the oldest plant in that network and difficult to retrofit, according to Food Dive, though not every product was to move, since the company planned to phase out the Lance candy made there. Campbell's said in its May 2024 release that Tualatin's aging site could no longer keep up with demand, and according to WBUR, Hyannis made only 4% of Cape Cod chips when the company said it would make them at larger plants. Hanover, Pennsylvania was named as a destination for kettle chips from Jeffersonville and Cape Cod chips from Hyannis, and the 2024 release planned $72 million and 72 new roles there. If your line is moving to one of those plants, an opening posted there, if there's one, is worth weighing beside any severance on offer.

The 2026 notices tied severance to staying. At Jeffersonville, staff who kept working until they were released would be eligible for severance or separation benefits, FOX59 reported from the notice, and Paris workers who remained through their release dates may qualify, according to a TheStreet report on that filing. Both notices spread their release dates over months, which can leave a stretch between learning that a job is ending and being free to leave it with severance. If your severance depends on a release date and a new employer wants you sooner, leaving early may put that severance at risk under the notice's own terms, and that possible loss is part of comparing the new job's pay and start date.

For salaried staff the 2026 cut came partly as an offer. CFO Todd Cunfer described it as a voluntary early retirement program combined with involuntary reductions, according to Bakery & Snacks, and Campbell's fiscal 2026 10-K shows the program's special pension benefits cost $38 million that year, booked apart from severance. The filing said substantially all employees who elected it would depart by December 2026. If an offer like it includes both severance and an enhanced pension benefit, each part is worth valuing on its own, which makes the offer easier to compare with staying on.

Office staff faced a different choice in 2023. When Campbell's announced it would fold its Charlotte and Norwalk snacks offices into Camden, most of the roles were set to move with it, so the question for many staff was whether to move too, with severance for those who didn't, according to FoodNavigator. If you're offered a move with severance as the alternative, the relocation support and the severance for declining it are two packages to set side by side, and what the move would cost your household belongs in that comparison.

Campbell's WARN notices go in under several names, and only some of them say Campbell. The Paris and Tualatin notices came from Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC, the 2026 Jeffersonville notice from Snyder’s-Lance doing business as Campbell Snacks, and older ones from Pepperidge Farm and Snyder's-Lance, the snack maker Campbell's bought in 2018. If you're trying to find your plant's notice, trying each filer name in our WARN tracker turns up notices that a search for Campbell's alone would miss.

The 10-K describes Campbell's cost work as one program rolling into the next, with unfinished phases carried forward each time, from the effort it began in 2015 through the 2025 initiatives to the 2027 program announced in September 2026.

A sourced history of Campbell's layoffs

• September 2026, about 13% salaried reduction disclosed

  CFO Todd Cunfer said September 3 that voluntary early retirement and involuntary reductions had cut Campbell's salaried workforce by about 13%, according to Bakery & Snacks. The early retirement program opened in fiscal 2026's third quarter with severance pay and benefits, according to Campbell's fiscal 2026 10-K.

• June 2026, Jeffersonville plant closing notice

  Campbell's set 111 layoffs at its Jeffersonville, Indiana plant from August 16 through a January 31, 2027 closing, according to FOX59 and the June filing in our WARN tracker.

• March 2026, Paris, Texas soup-to-sauce layoff notice

  Campbell's planned to lay off 205 of 568 Paris employees in phases from May 1, when soup production was set to stop, through mid-August, according to a TheStreet report. The filing expected 194 union positions eliminated, though 18 workers might move to open roles.

• January 2026, Hyannis potato chip plant set to close

  Campbell's said it would close its Hyannis, Massachusetts factory in April, affecting 49 employees, and make Cape Cod chips at larger plants, including ones in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin, according to WBUR.

• May 2024, Tualatin closing and Jeffersonville cutback announced

  Campbell said it would close its Pacific Foods plant in Tualatin, Oregon by July 2026 and refocus Jeffersonville, affecting about 85 of its 230 workers, with separation benefits and job placement support, according to its May 2024 release. Tualatin closed for good that July, according to Bakery & Snacks.

• January 2023, Charlotte and Norwalk snacks offices to close

  Campbell said it would fold its snacks offices in Charlotte and Norwalk, Connecticut, where 382 people worked, into its Camden, New Jersey headquarters, moving about 330 roles and offering eligible staff relocation support, according to FoodNavigator.

• January 2021, Columbus, Georgia snack plant closing

  Campbell planned to close its 94-year-old Columbus plant, its oldest, by spring 2022 and shift higher-demand snacks to other plants, with severance or separation packages and career counseling for affected employees among the 326 there, according to Food Dive.

What to do if you're laid off from Campbell's

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Campbell's's biggest hubs: Texas, Indiana, Oregon, North Carolina. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Campbell's's hub states run: Texas, Indiana, Oregon, North Carolina, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.