Another One Bites the Dust: Jelly Belly Announces Layoffs and Administrative Offices Consolidating Out of California

California ranks dead last once again in Chief Executive Magazine’s Best
& Worst States For Business 2025 – the 14th year in a row 

The Bay Area is getting hit one more time with job losses. First it was
the announcement of the Benicia Valero refinery closure by April 2026.
Then came the announcement that Anheuser-Busch would be closing its
Budweiser plant in Fairfield, California, in early 2026, also resulting
in job losses and local revenue impacts. 

And now, the Fairfield Jelly Belly plant will lay off 69 employees as
part of a planned consolidation of administrative services at its
out-of-state headquarters. Jelly Belly will be consolidating their
administrative offices out of California. 

Jelly Belly said the 69 layoffs will not affect its manufacturing,
warehousing or Visit Center jobs, the East Bay Times reported. 

California is losing more workers than it’s gaining, new report shows,
the Globe reported Nov. 26th. “Businesses are leaving because it is no
longer economically feasible for them to stay within California,” the
Hoover Institute says. “Businesses that remain in California are hiring
much less, and California now has the country’s second highest
unemployment rate,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nov.
19, 2024. 

Chevron, X/Twitter, Space X, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab,
and Toyota Motor North America, are just a few of the mega-businesses
leaving California because of the state’s leftist/Marxist politics and
regulatory environment. 

After 77 Years in California, In-N-Out moved its headquarters to
Tennessee. 

In October the Globe reported that GAF Energy, which sells solar panels
embedded in roof shingles, is leaving California for Georgetown, Texas. 

Blue Diamond Growers is closing its Sacramento manufacturing plant,
resulting in approximately 600 job losses, is moving up its 2026
departure. The company will transfer manufacturing operations from the
53-acre Sacramento site to facilities in Turlock and Salida, California. 

Leprino Foods, the world’s largest mozzarella cheese maker, is closing
its Central Valley dairy processing plant in Lemore, and moving to
Lubbock, Texas. The company supplies cheese to Domino’s, Pizza Hut and
Papa John’s. The closure will result in the loss of more than 300 jobs. 

California has the highest taxes in the U.S., one of the worst
business-killing regulatory environments, highest gas and diesel prices
in the nation, high state and local taxes, highest minimum wage, and
more employer mandates than any state – all of which cost business
owners a huge amount of money. 

The Globe even has a series called “Leaving California” where we
interviewed many individuals and business owners who moved out of

Pastures 

Pastures, Part II 

Pastures, Part III 

Pastures, Part IV 

Pastures, Part V 

Pastures, Part VI 

Pastures, Part VII 

Pastures, Part VIII 

If California is So Totally Awesome, Why Are So Many Residents Leaving?

New Poll Finds That More Californians Than Ever Are Considering Leaving
The State 

and then we stopped counting…

More Businesses Leaving California In 2021 Than In Any Other Year Prior
According To New Analysis 

California in a Post-Hope Period?’ 


Hawaii 


and

Out. 

California ranks dead last once again in Chief Executive Magazine’s Best
& Worst States For Business 2025. Tennessee ranks #1 once again, and now
“The Volunteer State” is getting another of California’s oldest and one
California, In-N-Out moved to Tennessee. 

Economist Dr. Art Laffer did an interview a few months ago on the Clay
Travis and Buck Sexton Show on why he lives in Nashville, having moved
state in the nation and earning income is a lot more fun with lower
taxes, lower regulations.” 

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