Dorr Woolen Company

Plant Closings and Layoffs

Plant Closings and Layoffs (2003)

Company name: Dorr Woolen Company.
Closing date: July 2003.
Jobs affected: 80 at closing; earlier layoffs included:
  • 30 in July 1999,
  • 14 in January 1999,
  • 13 in 1998, and
  • 60 in 1996 when spinning operations ceased.
Location(s): Guild (Newport), N.H.
Type of facility: Woolen weaving (and,until 1996, spinning).
Union (if any): Unionized.
Source(s) of information: Phone interview with John Bishop (of parent company Pendleton Woolen Mills), Dorr Company press release of July 21, 1999, and Dorr Company fax of February 16, 1999.