USA: Post Holdings to close two facilities

US breakfast cereal maker Post Holdings has announced the closure of two if its Post Consumer Brands cereal manufacturing facilities in Cobourg, Canada and Sparks, in the US state of Nevada.

The closures are required to reduce capacity in its cereal production network, the company said, noting approximately 300 employees will be affected.

“The ready-to-eat cereal category continues to decline”, said Nicolas Catoggio, president and CEO of Post Consumer Brands. “To respond to this, we are reducing excess manufacturing capacity and optimizing our North American plant network to better utilize our production capacity,”

expected by the end of December 2025.

The Cobourg facility has been part of the Post Consumer Brands business since 2017, when the company acquired Weetabix, while the Sparks facility has been part of the business since 2021, when it acquired the Treehouse Foods ready-to-eat cereal business.

Source: Post Holdings