In another indication of the ongoing downturn in the agricultural economy, Bridgestone Americas Inc. is offering buyouts at the company’s Bridgestone-Firestone agricultural tire plant in Des Moines.
As farmers face the biggest fall in farm income in two decades, another agricultural industrial company in Iowa is announcing layoffs. Bridgestone-Firestone’s Des Moines plant, maker of most of the ...
AT 7:00 TONIGHT. WELL, BY THE END OF THIS WEEK, MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE AT BRIDGESTONE’S DES MOINES PLANT WILL BE OUT OF A JOB. THAT’S ACCORDING TO IOWA WARN THE STATE RUN LOG OF LAYOFF NOTICES.