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

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 California, going back to 2019:

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part II

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part III

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part IV

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part V

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part VI

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part VII

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener 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

Leaving California Interview With Mark Snyder: ‘Is Sacramento and California in a Post-Hope Period?’

Leaving CA: Tech Giant Oracle Leaving California for Texas

Leaving California: Oracle Co-Founder Larry Ellison Announces Move To Hawaii

Leaving California: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Announces Move to Texas

and

Gov. Newsom and Democrats Send Another CA Business Packing: In-N-Out is 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 of the best known businesses in the country: After 77 Years in 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 from Southern CA: “Now why am I in Nashville? We are the lowest-taxed state in the nation and earning income is a lot more fun with lower taxes, lower regulations.”