{"id":1985790,"date":"2025-08-29T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1985790"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:36:11","slug":"crown-royal-bottler-closing-down-ontario-plant-shifting-some-operations-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/crown-royal-bottler-closing-down-ontario-plant-shifting-some-operations-to-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Royal bottler closing down Ontario plant, shifting some operations to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em><strong>CORRECTION: A previous version of this article\u2019s headline was <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u2018Crown Royal bottler closing down Ontario plant, moving operations to U.S.\u2019 It has been updated to \u2018Crown Royal bottler closing down Ontario plant, shifting some operations to U.S.\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Spirits maker Diageo will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some bottling volume to the U.S., the company announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The facility, which bottles <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/crown-royal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crown Royal<\/a> products, will close in February in a move aimed at improving its North American supply chain. Bottling at the Amherstburg facility intended for the U.S. market would be shifting stateside, while bottling for Canadian consumers would move to its Valleyfield, Quebec location.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get daily National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>About 200 jobs will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a difficult decision, but one that is crucial to improving the efficiency and resiliency of our supply chain network,\u201d Marsha McIntosh, Diageo\u2019s president of North America supply, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Diageo said it will engage with the community and find ways to support its employees through the transition, and work alongside Unifor to assist unionized workers.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it will still maintain a \u201csignificant\u201d footprint in Canada \u2014 including its headquarters and warehouse operations in the Greater\u00a0Toronto\u00a0Area, and bottling and distillation facilities in Manitoba and Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>McIntosh added the company\u2019s Crown Royal products will continue to be mashed, distilled and aged at its Canadian facilities.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 with a file from Global News\u2019 Jacquelyn LeBel<\/em><\/p>\n<section id=\"content-related-items-1\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--text \" aria-label=\"Related articles section 1\">\n<\/section><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globalnews.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORRECTION: A previous version of this article\u2019s headline was \u2018Crown Royal bottler closing down Ontario plant, moving operations to U.S.\u2019 It has been updated to \u2018Crown Royal bottler closing down Ontario plant, shifting some operations to U.S.\u2019 Spirits maker Diageo will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1985791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[357439,357438,25517,357440],"class_list":["post-1985790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-canada-u-s-trade-war","tag-crown-royal","tag-economy","tag-lcbo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Crown-Royal-bottler-closing-down-Ontario-plant-shifting-some-operations.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}