Southern Quality Meats Closing in Pontotoc

PONTOTOC, Miss. (AP) — Southern Quality Meats says it is closing its plant in Pontotoc.

A local newspaper reports that company officials notified the plant’s 110 workers Friday that the Pontotoc operations will be consolidated with a sister plant in Albertville, Ala.

Albertville is 160 miles west of Pontotoc.

Albertville Quality Foods has processed meats for food service, retail and national accounts since 1988.

Southern Quality Meats opened in 1962. It will be shuttered between June 3 and June 17.

Company CEO Jerry Wilson said in a news release that the decision was hard because of its effect on Mississippi workers, their families and surrounding communities.