Archway Cookies closing in Battle Creek

Michigan Fails again and you guys keep maybe you ought to elect an American Born Citizen to run the state. I live in Indiana and we have budget surplus here. At least your governor will never be president

Granholm does have a lot of problems, but face it, those cookies really sucked. If you only sell cookies to people so old that they can't taste anything anyway, well, it's just not a good business plan.

I too work in the same building as these people.
Mgmt was a absolute joke, sad excuse for running a company.
Good luck looking in the mirror your corporate pigs

Archway? Are those those old windmill shaped cookies I used to use to crack open my hard-shelled walnuts instead of my 12 lbs.****-kickers? Piece of advice for all you West Michiganders; leave that place and leave it NOW! I live in Chattanooga and down here things are just a hell of alot better than there. VW is here, Trucking, all sorts of manufacturing and service ended jobs available. That state is beyond dead. It's irretrieveable and anyone dumb enough to stick around will get stuck with the tab. Leave, and don't ever look back. Michigan sucks beyond comprehension and none of you should feel any pangs of guilt for doing what is right for you and yours.

I wish it was just 59 employees in battlecreek; try every salesman, manager, and every other Mother's cookies employee in the whole country. My husband recieved notice at 3pm today that he and all salesmen had lost their jobs without any notice. In fact the investment company that own's Mother's lead them to believe that they were going to revieve a new contract as recently as Wednessday.

Let's put another "crunch" in the economy!

Penny3144 wrote:

Archway? Are those those old windmill shaped cookies I used to use to crack open my hard-shelled walnuts instead of my 12 lbs.****-kickers? Piece of advice for all you West Michiganders; leave that place and leave it NOW! I live in Chattanooga and down here things are just a hell of alot better than there. VW is here, Trucking, all sorts of manufacturing and service ended jobs available. That state is beyond dead. It's irretrieveable and anyone dumb enough to stick around will get stuck with the tab. Leave, and don't ever look back. Michigan sucks beyond comprehension and none of you should feel any pangs of guilt for doing what is right for you and yours.

Harsh truth.

Penny3144 wrote:

Archway? Are those those old windmill shaped cookies I used to use to crack open my hard-shelled walnuts instead of my 12 lbs.****-kickers? Piece of advice for all you West Michiganders; leave that place and leave it NOW! I live in Chattanooga and down here things are just a hell of alot better than there. VW is here, Trucking, all sorts of manufacturing and service ended jobs available. That state is beyond dead. It's irretrieveable and anyone dumb enough to stick around will get stuck with the tab. Leave, and don't ever look back. Michigan sucks beyond comprehension and none of you should feel any pangs of guilt for doing what is right for you and yours.

Well I did just that - I got out 3 weeks ago.. to WV. Not much better here, so the locals say. But I got hired in by a good company. Face it. Michigan has its problems, and its going to take many years to recover.

Maybe next time they will get some REAL leadership in michigan. Either way it will take at least 10-20 years for it to recover economicaly.

You cannot expect to have a good economy in a state with the 2nd higest paid paublum pukers (politicians) and the 3rd highest business tax, and expect companies to want to come to michigan.

Instead of blaming Michigan for your inability to get a job, why don't some of you people trying going to college?

Anonymous wrote:

Instead of blaming Michigan for your inability to get a job, why don't some of you people trying going to college?

So they can go to college and leave the state anyway.

Where are the college jobs? Especially for someone fresh out with no experience?

Anonymous wrote:

Instead of blaming Michigan for your inability to get a job, why don't some of you people trying going to college?

You have got to be some naive person who thinks that college is the answer to all...oh I see, so the people who are unemployed or "underemployed" and all non-college educated. Can't wait until you get into the real world.

We hire only young college grads and pay them $20k a year. They take the jobs because there is not much out there.

5 years ago we paid the $40K.

And just think, McCain has so much more of this in store for us.

Lets hurry and elect him so we can lose our jobs and start saving money on gas.

Sad when a cookie company is leaving Michigan. Michigan and the corporations have to thank themselves for this one. It's all about corporate greed. As long as the CEO's get their money, who cares what happens to the employees, or the business. Let's just move everything out of this country, so that we all can be out of work. Wake up America, we need to keep the jobs here. Not ship them out of the country and we need to cap these CEO's pay and reinvest it back into the businesses!!!!

Sorry to say, "that is the way the cookie crumbles."

keep in touch w/ the coming news of Archway. You will no doubt here of coruption at the top! Sorry this might offened those involved.

Ron wrote:

Michigan Fails again and you guys keep maybe you ought to elect an American Born Citizen to run the state. I live in Indiana and we have budget surplus here. At least your governor will never be president

The Archway company, led by Cattertan Partners, have screwed employees for years. I was an unlucky owner of a distributorship in Massachusetts and was lied to, abused, and, in the end, had by territory taken away with unscupulous acts. Over 70 distributors from the northeast are currently in litigation with the company to try and recoup our losses. Surprised? If the employees who remained at the Michigan plant were surprised, or if any of the management were surprised, they have been living with blinders on.

The Archway closing not only was felt in Michigan but here in Chicago as well. Two warehouses here are now closed and many are without a job or explanation . We just signed a Union contract a few months ago and now the doors are closed. This world is crumbling fast with high gas and taxes. Its a sad day for all the employees at archway. May God bless us all to rebound and find employment somewhere.

I'm a former employee of Archway cookies and the reason this company went out of business is because of their numbskull President and the management company that ran it into the ground. It's a shame that the Upper management wasn't led out in handcuffs. If someone would look into their books,they would find Enron like accounting. If there is any enterprising reporter out there that wants to get a Pulitzer or Emmy. Talk to the guys suing Archway in the Northeast or talk to the Independant Distributors around the country that were forced to take product that didn't exist. Or the Chicago warehouses that sold the same product 3 or 4 times. The books are beyond cooked in that company.

yea, Georg knoblock (spelling?) is sure to go to prison if ivestigated by any federal agencies that may be interested in big false book keeping criminal activity.