{"id":15154,"date":"2016-10-13T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=15154"},"modified":"2016-10-13T13:52:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:52:39","slug":"stone-brewing-lays-off-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2016\/10\/13\/stone-brewing-lays-off-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Brewing lays off employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reports on social media from ex-employees of Stone Brewing indicate\u00a0that multiple people\u00a0have been laid off from the company, including “HQ Brewceptionist” Denise Ratfield who penned an acknowledgment of the situation on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n

\"stone\"<\/a>The news comes as the company recently brought in a CEO to replace Greg Koch, who moved to a new position as executive chairman. Stone Brewing just opened taprooms at new brewing facilities in Berlin, Germany and Richmond, Virginia within the past couple of months.<\/p>\n

When reached for a comment, Stone PR sent this statement from CEO Dominic Engels:<\/p>\n

“Due to an unforeseen slowdown in our consistent growth and changes in the craft beer landscape, we have had to make the difficult decision to restructure our staff. Unfortunately, this comes despite a year that includes the incredible accomplishments of opening two new breweries, which are ultimately expanding the availability of Stone beers and boosting the reputation of American craft beer in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

More recently however, the larger independent craft segment has developed tremendous pressures. Specifically, the onset of\u00a0greater\u00a0pressures from\u00a0Big Beer\u00a0as a result of their acquisition strategies, and the further proliferation of small, hyper-local breweries\u00a0has\u00a0slowed growth. With business and the market now less predictable, we must restructure to preserve a healthy future for our company. Even given this unfortunate circumstance, we will continue to be fiercely independent and, importantly,\u00a0Stone remains one of the largest \u2013 if not\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0largest \u2013 employers in the craft brewing segment.<\/b> [emphasis in the original]<\/span><\/p>\n

It is crucial to recognize that this decision was made after much careful consideration. Approximately 5% of all team members were affected, and they were offered a substantial notice period and career transition services. The team members no longer with our company are talented, committed individuals who have held important roles in our organization, and we expect that their talents will be in high demand. This reduction was not a reflection of the work they did, but a careful decision made to ensure that our company will remain competitive and profitable. No additional layoffs are expected within Stone\u2019s foreseeable future.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Stone was reported to have more than 1,100 employees in September, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reports on social media from ex-employees of Stone Brewing indicate\u00a0that multiple people\u00a0have been laid off from the company, including “HQ Brewceptionist” Denise Ratfield who penned an acknowledgment of the situation on her Facebook page. The news comes as the company recently brought in a CEO to replace Greg Koch, who moved to a new position […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-3Wq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}