Rich Products is cutting 60 positions in Buffalo, even as the food manufacturer says it plans to add 50 new jobs in the city. The company informed its workforce on Thursday about changes to its structure, roles and capabilities as part of a restructuring.
According to The Business Journals, Rich Products described itself as a global food manufacturer undergoing workforce changes. In a separate 2023 report, WIVB said the company’s headquarters employed around 700 people and reported that Rich Products planned to move some jobs out of Buffalo to other locations.
What's Driving the Restructuring
In its report on the 2023 reorganization, WIVB noted that Rich Products was in the early stages of building what it called an enterprise service organization, an effort meant to centralize, automate and shift certain types of work performed around the world. The report said departments involved included finance, supply chain, IT and human resources. Company officials said that overhaul was still in its very early stages and could take as long as two years to fully play out.
In its 2023 coverage, WIVB reported that Rich Products intended to place employees affected by that reorganization into other open positions where possible and expected some new roles to be created in Buffalo as it unfolded. Separately, Buffalo Business First cited 50 new Buffalo positions in connection with the current changes.
A History of Trimming Jobs While Reinvesting Locally
This isn't the first time Rich Products has cut Buffalo jobs during a reorganization. Buffalo Business First reported in 2023 that a separate global reorganization tied to operations in India resulted in 10 job cuts in Buffalo at the time. More recently, the company announced in February 2025 that it would close a California manufacturing plant while maintaining, per the same outlet, that its commitment to Buffalo remained strong.
That stated commitment has shown up in dollars. Rich Products announced the completion of a redesigned Customer Innovation Center at its Buffalo global headquarters on September 29, representing a $3.2 million investment transforming underutilized space, according to Rich Products Corporation. The company also pointed back to a 2025 announcement expanding its Niagara Street campus, including the acquisition of the Curtiss Malt House property at 1100 Niagara Street, with combined projected investment across both sites of approximately $10 million.
ROAR Logistics Move Promises Dozens of New Jobs
Part of that campus expansion involves relocating Rich Products' subsidiary, ROAR Logistics, into the historic Oliver Gear Building at 1120 Niagara Street, a move the company says is expected to add approximately 70 new jobs to the area, per its own announcement. Rich Products' world headquarters sits off Niagara Street in Buffalo, a corridor where the company has concentrated much of its recent local investment even as it trims headcount elsewhere in its organization.
Part of a Wider Industry Trend
The Buffalo cuts arrive amid a sharp rise in food-industry layoffs nationally. Food producers had announced 29,693 job cuts through September, a 76% increase over the 16,835 cuts recorded over the same period in 2025, according to Food Dive, citing outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The outlet reported food producers cut 7,982 jobs in August alone and another 7,326 in September.
Rich Products' reductions are modest next to some of the industry's recent upheaval. Food Dive reported that Tyson Foods plans to sell or end operations at three facilities and lay off at least 2,500 workers amid heavy losses, while Amy's Kitchen is eliminating approximately 260 jobs as it streamlines its manufacturing network amid category-wide headwinds. Those cuts underscore a food-manufacturing sector under pressure well beyond Western New York.
