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Oreo Maker Mondelez to Cut Up to 600 Jobs at Chicago Bakery

The Chicago bakery makes Chips Ahoy and Oreo cookies, among other snack foods

Mondelez International plans to cut several hundred jobs at a Chicago bakery that makes Chips Ahoy, Oreo cookies and other snack foods.

The Deerfield, Illinois-based company said Friday the total number of layoffs will depend on a decision about where to locate four new manufacturing lines.

Spokeswoman Laurie Guzzinati says that if the new lines are located at the Chicago site, 300 jobs would be cut.

If those lines are instead installed at a new plant in Salinas, Mexico, 600 jobs will be lost in Chicago.

The four high-speed, high-tech lines would replace nine of the 16 lines at the Chicago bakery.

About 1,200 people work at the Chicago plant, the company's largest U.S. bakery. It also produces brands such as Nutter Butter, Honey Maid and Ritz crackers.

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