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Aurora Foods to Close West Seneca Bagel Plant

Buffalo Toronto Public Media
Published May 3, 2002 at 2:40 PM EDT

By Mark Wozniak

West Seneca, NY – There's more bad economic news in the region.

Aurora Foods announced Thursday that 207 jobs will be terminated when the Lender's Bagel plant in West Seneca is closed at the end of the month.

The Saint Louis-based company purchased Lender's in 1999. A spokesman says its Illinois operations are more efficient.

Lender's started as a Buffalo business, Abel's Bagels, in 1962, and grew into the country's largest bagel maker.