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Popular beer brand to cut 220 jobs as production shifts
Fox Business • • business
Key Points:
- Sapporo USA plans to lay off 220 workers at three Stone Brewing locations in Escondido, California, as production shifts to facilities in Paso Robles, California, and Kansas City, Missouri.
- The layoffs will begin with 58 workers on October 19, following Sapporo's sale of Stone Brewing and select hospitality locations to Firestone Walker Brewing Company and Duvel Moortgat USA.
- Stone's Escondido brewery and bistro were not included in the sale, but Sapporo is winding down the Escondido brewery after failing to find a viable long-term solution for the property.
- Firestone Walker and Duvel plan to offer jobs to many Stone employees in hospitality, sales, and marketing, while production roles will be evaluated as brewing shifts to their other facilities.
- Stone Brewing, founded in 1996 and a prominent West Coast craft beer brand, was acquired by Sapporo in 2022, which is now focusing its U.S. efforts on its namesake beer.
