Barnesville mattress company closing; 59 people to lose jobs
COPYRIGHT LARRY NEFF/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS
Corsicana Bedding, doing business as the Corsicana Mattress Company, announced that its be closing its Pennsylvania plant at 1214 Morea Road, Barnesville.
The closure, planned for Feb. 3, will affect 59 employees.
The company filed a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification notice with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, which stated that the plant will close Feb. 3 as part of a larger company restructuring plan. The WARN act is federal legislation that offers protection to workers and their families by requiring businesses to provide notice 60 days in advance of a business closing.
According to the Furniture Today website, Carla Weber, Corsicana’s human resource director said, “We are restructuring our business due to major changes in the industry with the growth of online bed-in-a box retailers, rise of imports and shrinking footprint of our major brick-and-mortar customer.”
Employees were notified of the closure in early December.
The company will offer a small group of employees the opportunity to move to its Connecticut facility.
The plant in Pennsylvania has been operating since March 2012. Corsicana will now move all production to plants in Connecticut, North Carolina and Illinois. The company has 13 plants across the United States: in Texas, Tennessee, Illinois, Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Washington, Alabama and Connecticut.
Founded in 1971 in Corsicana, Texas, the company offers a full range of promotional and step-up products that feature the latest in sleep technology, including innerspring, memory foam and hybrid models.
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