A P&G spokesman, Jeff LeRoy, initally said Monday it’s too soon to say how the center will be impacted.
“We don’t how it’s going to affect (the Union center), so there’s really no way I can talk about any facilities or share any information because I don’t know,” LeRoy said. “I don’t even know which businesses are affected.”
After a phone interview, however, LeRoy sent an email saying, “We are not discussing specific brand names. We expect the Union, Ohio distribution center to be an important part of P&G’s business.”
A spokesman for JobsOhio, the state’s private development arm which helped shepherd a deal to bring P&G to Union, said the company’s incentives agreement with Ohio — including the projected jobs number for the center — remains valid.
“The agreement, including the jobs commitment, remains in place,” said Matt Englehart, a JobsOhio spokesman.
On Friday, A.G. Lafley, P&G CEO, said the company will sell or end 90 to 100 brands to focus on 70 to 80 brands that do better in the marketplace.
“Less will be much more,” USA Today quoted Lafley as saying. “The objective is growth and much more reliable generation of cash and profit. We’re going to be much more agile and adaptable.”
In May, P&G said it will use the $90 million center in Union. Construction on the site began late last year and should be operational in 2015, JobsOhio and others have said.
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