Around 175 employees have been laid off at Mazzetta Company’s Gloucester Seafood Processing subsidiary in Gloucester, Massaschustts, according to the company.
The layoffs began last August, Ken Messina, business service manager of Massachusetts’s Executive Office of Workforce Development, told the Newburyport News in a recent article.
Messina said that around 175 employees were laid off, but did not know whether Mazzetta planned to close GSP, which it opened in 2015.
Mazzetta Co., a seafood supplier and importer based in Highland Park, Illinois, did not respond to a request for comment from SeafoodSource. Last August, Mazzetta said it planned to “temporarily suspend” its fresh-fish processing operation in Gloucester to concentrate solely on lobster processing.
Mazzetta bought the 65,000-square-foot GSP, formerly Good Harbor Fillet seafood processing plant, for around USD 5 million (EUR 4.7 million), according to Newburyport News. At the time, Mazzetta planned an additional USD 8 million (EUR 7.5 million) in investments at the site and projected it would hire 125 full-time positions, plus more than 100 seasonal employees at the facility.
Since the layoffs, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Workforce Development has been helping former GSP employees find work, and hosted an informational meeting at the facility in early January.
“We were able to help them with their layoff situation. Last week was the last meeting that we had up there. For us, it was the end of the closure,” Messina said.Messina said that around 175 employees were laid off, but did not know whether Mazzetta planned to close GSP, which it opened in 2015.
