{"id":3032,"date":"2014-02-27T03:35:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2014-02-27T03:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:35:03","slug":"heinz-expected-to-make-statement-today-regarding-leamington-ont-tomato-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/27\/heinz-expected-to-make-statement-today-regarding-leamington-ont-tomato-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinz expected to make statement today regarding Leamington, Ont., tomato plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1901813_10152257456569292_1552256913_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3033\" alt=\"1901813_10152257456569292_1552256913_n\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1901813_10152257456569292_1552256913_n.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1901813_10152257456569292_1552256913_n.jpg 180w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1901813_10152257456569292_1552256913_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Heinz Ketchup<\/p>\n<p>LEAMINGTON, Ont. &#8211; A statement is expected today from food giant Heinz on negotiations which could save a southwestern Ontario tomato processing plant from complete closure.<\/p>\n<p>Heinz is a major employer in Leamington, Ont., and announced plans last November to close the facility by late June, putting close to 800 full-time employees out of work.<\/p>\n<p>Leamington Mayor John Paterson says Heinz now plans to shed some light on efforts being made to save the plant, adding that the company has told him &#8220;it will be a good day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paterson says a number of serious business proposals regarding the facility emerged after Heinz said it planned to shutter the plant.<\/p>\n<p>He says the municipality isn&#8217;t privy to talks between Heinz and the interested parties.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario&#8217;s minister of economic development, trade and employment said while he couldn&#8217;t comment on negotiations between Heinz and any potential investor or buyer, the province wanted to do all it could to support Leamington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Heinz Ketchup LEAMINGTON, Ont. &#8211; A statement is expected today from food giant Heinz on negotiations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[628],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food","tag-heinz","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}