Dare to shutter Quebec cookie plant next year, affecting about 275 employees

Dare Foods says it will close a cookie-making plant on the south shore of Montreal by mid-2020 in a move that will affect about 275 employees.

The Ontario-based company said Thursday that it told employees the production of soft cookies would be moved to other facilities across the country.

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Spokesman Marc Duchesne says the plant in St-Lambert, Que., can’t be expanded or modernized because it is “landlocked” near residential and commercial areas.

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He added that retention bonuses, performance payments and severance will exceed the requirements of the collective agreement and the provincial labour law.

The plant in Sainte-Martine that makes toasted snack foods and has about 120 employees is unaffected.

Dare owns the Whippet, Breton and Grissol brands.