{"id":194401,"date":"2026-02-26T07:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194401\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:07:11","slug":"jelly-belly-lays-off-69-employees-in-fairfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194401\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Belly lays off 69 employees in Fairfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jelly Belly has announced sweeping layoffs in California after shutting down a major corporate and commercial operation in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrara Candy Company, its Chicago-based owner, revealed on Wednesday 69 workers will be axed at the headquarters in Fairfield, near San Francisco, in June.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38606680\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/close-up-shot-assortment-multi-122209888.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of multicolored Jelly Belly jelly beans in a clear divided container.\" class=\"wp-image-38606680\"  \/>Assortment of multi-colored Jelly Belly jelly beans. Gado via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>It will impact administrative roles including web developers, accountants, customer service staff and e-commerce teams, according to a letter sent to local city officials. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe California Post is here. Sign up for Morning Report.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet the perfect blend of news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Jelly Belly will still remain in business and the Fairfield manufacturing, warehousing and visitor center roles will not be hit.<\/p>\n<p>There will still be 305 employees at the site. Those let go will have the chance to relocate to other Ferrara-run facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jelly Belly has announced sweeping layoffs in California after shutting down a major corporate and commercial operation in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,6716,6113,4182,101,3586],"class_list":["post-194401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-candy","tag-layoffs","tag-metro","tag-san-francisco","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}