MONTREAL — There was a time when the whole neighbourhood surrounding an east-end Montreal bakery would smell like baking Oreos. But that era comes to an end this month when snack-maker Mondelez International closes its Montreal factory for good. The big concrete building in the shadow of Olympic Stadium opened in 1956 and produced more than a billion of the famous black-and-white Oreo cookies each year. After a drawn-out process, company spokeswoman Laurie Guzzinati says the 300,000-square-foot plant is being put up for sale and its equipment moved and auctioned off. The long closing process gave workers a chance to move on, Grenier says, adding that they have little hope that the institution could be revived.

Source: National Post February 18, 2018 22:41 UTC