LiDestri Foods, Inc. says it is giving all 146 workers at its New Jersey plant a chance to transfer to Rochester, N.Y., to work at a new juice plant there.
Company officials tell The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill they're consolidating operations in Rochester because its facilities there are closer to its glass jar supplier in Corning, N.Y. The company says high diesel prices made it impractical to ship jars to Pennsauken.
The privately held company makes Francesco Rinaldi spaghetti sauce and sauces and salsas, oils, vinegars and cooking wines for a number of other companies.
The Pennsauken plant opened in 1970 as Cantisano Foods. LiDestri bought it five years ago.
