Pfizer is making staff cuts across the country and closing a handful of sites, following its announcement earlier this month that it planned to take $3.5 billion out of its costs this year and next.
The closures include two facilities in North Carolina: the Kit Creek facility in Morrisville and the clinical manufacturing facility in Durham, the company confirmed. Its two largest facilities in the state, in Sanford and in Rocky Mount, will continue operating.
It will also close a facility in Peapack, NJ, as part of a decision in 2021 to sell the campus. A New Jersey WARN notice said 791 positions would be impacted, though a Pfizer representative told Endpoints News that the “vast majority” of employees would be re-assigned to the company’s New York headquarters at 66 Hudson Yards, while a “small portion” would move to its Parsippany, NJ location.
“The WARN notice states…
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