Targeted Workers Win Powerball

Staff Report

Employees of a company owned by DePuy were the big winners in last weekend’s Powerball drawing.

Seventeen employees of Kellogg Industries, Jackson, Mich., hit a jackpot worth $46 million.

It couldn’t have come at a better time.

DePuy announced recently that the plant will be closed in mid-June. Kellogg has 85 employees and layoffs are scheduled to begin in May.

The 17 lucky employees will receive approximately $135,000 per year before taxes for the next 20 years. It comes out to $2.7 million, said Shirley Johnson, personnel and accounting administrator.

Johnson, one of the winners, said it was only the second week the employees did a lottery pool.

Kellogg is a sewing operation that manufactured soft goods such as knee braces, arm slings, abdominal binders and instrument cases for DePuy.

“DePuy recently acquired a California company that does the same thing Kellogg does,” Johnson said. “DePuy decided to consolidate those operations at the plant in California.”

Kellogg has been owned by DePuy since 1968.