Sweet N' Low Prepares To End Their Brooklyn Production
Sweet N’ Low factory in Brooklyn. | Photo via Flickr

According to a report from the Center for an Urban Future, “manufacturing jobs in the city numbered at about one million.” That’s compared with a mere 75,000 now. The cost to run a manufacturing job is much more expensive which leads to businesses having to move their products internationally to cut down on costs.

Do you remember the sweeteners in the pink wrappers that are normally in your grandparents household — I’m talking about Sweet N’ Low — whom will be ending their Brooklyn production after nearly 60 years.

Sweet N’ Low, a family owned business, informed their workers earlier on in January that they will slowly be moving their production overseas over the course of 2016. At the end of this shift, only their headquarters will be left in NYC. The global competition, high costs of labor, and the cost of real estate has taken a toll  on the business as a whole.

It is a surprise that Sweet N’ Low has stayed in production for this long. Sweet N’ Low has been considered a product of low-value.. “They make a very standardized, commodity, low-value-added product, and that is not what New York is today, nor has it been for 10, 15, even 20 years,” News.com.au reports.

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A move such as this will leave about 300 employees unemployed. Delbert Ranger, 52, has worked for the company for six years and is in shock about the recent news.

“It’s just like a bomb just dropped on us; nobody expected that,” says Ranger.

The union, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 2013, has been meeting and negotiating the contract for months and they have not been informed of the decision to move Brooklyn production overseas. City officials alongside the workers protested to closures to no avail, for the workers who have been working in manufacturing for decades this comes at a disadvantage for them.

The pride of having a product made locally is no longer a case here. For a business to survive in the city, it is about your ranking against others businesses around you and how that factors into your success.

As for now, the company is helping its employees find new jobs. There is no word as to which part of the world they will be moving their business.