When ProPortion Foods decided that it would leave its Los Angeles home for a new, larger facility in Round Rock, Texas, the family-owned business worked out a plan. The company would gradually wind down production at the larger of its 2 plants in California while ramping up production in Texas. It would transfer its equipment and operations, one line at a time, from the old facility to the new. New employees would be steadily brought in, and the entire operation would have been transferred smoothly over the course of about nine months.