Yarnell’s Ice Cream Closing
Yarnell’s Premium Ice Cream says it isshutting its doors and laying off about 200 workers after a decline in sales and rising prices that the Searcy, Arkansas-based company says has affected the ice cream industry.
The company announced Thursday morning that it would endproduction indefinitely and told its workers that they would paid through every day worked, but not beyond that. About 75 percent of the company’s workers are based at the Searcy headquarters. The rest are located throughout Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi.
A small team will remain working for the company’s headquarters through Aug. 27. Yarnell’s has been in operation since 1932 and grew from a small family-owned operation to one that delivered ice cream throughout Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.
