WestPoint Home Inc.
Company Profile
Plant Closings and Layoffs
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Company name:
| WestPoint Home.
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Closing date:
| February 2008.
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Jobs affected:
| About 800.
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Location(s):
| Fairfax fabrication and finishing plants in Valley, Ala.
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Type of facility:
| Bedding.
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Union (if any):
| Unknown.
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Source(s) of information:
| WTVM Channel 9, December 7, 2007.
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Company name:
| WestPoint Home.
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Closing date:
| August 31, 2007.
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Jobs affected:
| About 1,000.
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Location(s):
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Abbeville Fabrication Plant, Abbeville, Ala.
Opelika Finishing Pland and Grifftex Chemicals, Opelika, Ala.
Marianna Plant, Marianna, Florida
Graphics plnat, West Point, Georgi.
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Type of facility:
| Bedding.
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Union (if any):
| Unknown.
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Source(s) of information:
| Southern Textile News, June 11, 2007.
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Company name:
| WestPoint Home.
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Closing date:
| November 5, 2006.
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Jobs affected:
| 375 in Lanett and 325 in Opelika.
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Location(s):
| Lanett and Opelika, Alabama.
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Type of facility:
| Greige weaving.
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Union (if any):
| Unknown.
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Source(s) of information:
| Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News, September 7, 2006.
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Company name:
| WestPoint Stevens.
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Layoff date:
| May 2005.
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Jobs affected:
| Layoff of 200.
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Location(s):
| Wagram, North Carolina.
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Type of facility:
| Towels.
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Union (if any):
| UNITE HERE!
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Source(s) of information:
| the Fayette Observer, Fayetteville, North Carolina, May 19, 2005.
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Company name:
| WestPoint Stevens.
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Closing date:
| March 2005.
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Jobs affected:
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110 in Indiana,
1,905 in South Carolina, and
450 in Virginia.
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Location(s):
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Middletown, Indiana,
Burlington and Clemson, South Carolina, and
Drakes Branch, Virginia.
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Type of facility:
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Indiana, closing of bedding facility (110 jobs);
Virginia, closing of towel-making facility (450 jobs); and
South Carolina closing of Burlington Alamance bedding and
distribution center (560 jobs), Clemson greige plant (340 jobs),
and Clemson fabricating plant and distribution center (760 jobs),
and layoff of 245 at Clemson finishing plant.
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Union (if any):
| Unknown.
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Source(s) of information:
| Various news reports
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Company name:
| WestPoint Stevens.
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Closing date:
| March 2004.
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Jobs affected:
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300 in Alabama,
550 in Georgia, and
125 in Louisina.
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Location(s):
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Valley, Alabama,
LaGrange, Georgia, and
Coushatta, Louisiana.
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Type of facility:
| Towels.
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Union (if any):
| UNITE HERE!
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Source(s) of information:
| Atlanta Journal and Constitution, January 10, 2004.
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Company name:
| WestPoint Stevens.
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Closing date:
| April 2003.
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Jobs affected:
| 320.
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Location(s):
| Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
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Type of facility:
| Towels.
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Union (if any):
| UNITE HERE!
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Source(s) of information:
| Associated Press State and Local Wire, April 26, 2003.
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Company name:
| WestPoint Stevens.
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Layoff date:
| November 2000.
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Jobs affected:
| Layoff of 100.
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Location(s):
| Biddeford, Maine.
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Type of facility:
| Flocked blanket manufacturing.
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Union (if any):
| UNITE HERE!
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Source(s) of information:
| Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine, November 4, 2000.
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