Montreal’s Oreo cookie plant prepares to shut its doors after drawn-out closing
MONTREAL — There was a time when the whole neighbourhood surrounding an east-end Montreal bakery would smell like baking Oreos.
But that era comes to an end this month when snack-maker Mondelez International closes its Montreal factory for good.
Union spokesman Pierre Grenier says many of the factory’s 454 employees had worked there for decades, and news of its closure came as “a blow.”
“It’s always hard, but people have done their mourning,” says Grenier, whose union represents building maintenance employees.