The new owner of Vermont’s Pepsi bottling franchise has laid off 15 workers in the state.
A spokesman for Pepsi Bottling Ventures of Raleigh, North Carolina, says the layoffs were the result of an evaluation of the Vermont operations.
Spokesman George Suddath says there were what he calls "redundancies” in things that were being done at headquarters.
Last November, the North Carolina company bought the Vermont franchise from the L.E. Farrell Company
Twelve of the layoffs were at the 100,000-square-foot distribution center in South Burlington. The others were in North Clarendon. The company employs 130 people in Vermont.