Pictsweet will close S.A. site, lay off 77
The Pictsweet Co., a Tennessee-based frozen foods business, has filed notice of its intention to permanently close its facility in San Antonio by mid-march.
In a letter to the Texas Workforce Commission, Pictsweet said it will lay off 77 employees who work at an industrial building on the Northeast Side.
Pictsweet, founded in 1945, is a supplier of frozen vegetables and other products for the retail and food service industry.
The private company said in a letter dated Jan. 16 that its employees “do not have bumping rights and are not represented by a union.” A list of “affected positions” was redacted.
The company hasn’t responded to requests for comment.
Pictsweet’s shutdown comes after companies in the San Antonio and New Braunfels areas reported more than 1,000 layoffs over the past year.
Last week, Plus One Robotics, a private company that designs software to helps robots “see,” said it is laying off 10 percent of its staff. The company said it employed at least 70 people last year across three offices at Port San Antonio, in Boulder, Colo., and in the Netherlands.
Among other layoffs, USAA, one of San Antonio’s largest employers, cut more than 90 jobs in March. The bank also laid off an undetermined number of employees in September. Sources said they heard the number of cuts is in the triple digits and appeared aimed at restructuring the business. About 19,000 of USAA’S roughly 37,000 employees are based in the San Antonio area.
Taskus, a New Braunfelsbased provider of customer support, content security and artificial intelligence, said in August that it would eliminate 500 jobs. The company had a global workforce of 45,300 and 4,000-plus employees in the United States, with most in Central and South Texas. It remains unclear how many Texas employees were laid off.
In December, Huntington Ingalls Industries, a Virginiabased shipbuilding company that contracts with the Navy, reported 202 layoffs across two divisions at its San Antonio offices.