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Lottery Grant Provides 200 New IBP Inc. Jobs
The IBP plant at 2700 23rd Ave. in Council Bluffs is one of the company's three pork slaughtering and processing sites in Iowa. IBP officials used a $738,000 Iowa community economic betterment account grant to increase the work force at the plant by…
Lawmakers Restrict Grants To Companies
A worker at the IBP pork plant in Council Bluffs processes meat. State legislators have been critical of a grant to the firm for the plant.
Bluffs Plant Reopens As 325 Report To Work
IBP Inc. employees were ready for work Tuesday morning. About 200 reported for hog slaughtering operations at the plant, located at 2700 Twenty-third Ave. IBP announced reopening plans in March, but a targeted mid-June starting date was delayed to…
Mid-June Start Set For Pork Plant
Robert Peterson, IBP Inc. chairman, shakes the hand of Gov. Terry Branstad during a Saturday press conference. Branstad was on hand for the plant reopening announcement and subsequent tour.
Victor Iowa Pack To Close Plant - Announcement 'Shocks' C.B. Officials
Scheduled To Close . . . is the Victor Iowa Pack pork plant at 2700 Twenty-third Ave. Company officials say operations will cease next week. The photo shows the back of the plant where trucks unload hogs.
New Plant: 450 Workers, Payroll Of $7.5 Million
Welcoming . . . Ben Goehring, president of Goehring Meat Inc., to Council Bluffs is Mayor David Christiansen, standing. Gov. Robert Ray also attended the press conference held at Lakeshore Country Club.