Middleby cuts 20% of Viking Range workers (140+ laid off)

Crain's Chicago Business / The Associated Press ^ | February 1, 2013

[2ndDivisionVet]

Viking Range Corp.'s new owner is laying off one-fifth of the company's workers.

Middleby Corp., based near Chicago, said it laid off about 140 of Viking's 700 employees Thursday.

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Viking cooking schools in Ridgeland, Miss., and Memphis, Tenn., will close...

[ClearCase_guy]

Weirdest dang Recovery I’ve ever seen — now in its fifth year.

[YankeeReb]

Maybe come June we'll have another Recovery Summer.
Remember Barry's first State of the Union Show back in '09 when he said he's "going to focus like a laser on jobs"?
One can only imagine how bad we'd be doing if he wasn't so focused.

[SuziQ]

This is going to be bad for Greenwood. Fred Carl had done good things for the town. Good to know the Alluvian and the Viking cooking school will remain open, but who knows for how long?

[Chad N. Freud]

Viking apparently didn’t pay the Dems’ Danegelt. Ironic.

[real saxophonist]

I think that’s Middleby Marshall, who makes the ovens that Domino’s Pizza uses.
I’m so glad I’m not doing that tonight.