MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Hardware distributor Orgill plans to close its distribution center in Memphis, Tennessee, and eliminate 160 jobs.
The 161-year-old Memphis-based company says it will keep its headquarters, lock services and concept center in Memphis. That will preserve about 330 jobs in the city.
Company President Ron Beal says Orgill will consolidate its warehouses in Memphis and in Vandalia, Ill., with a new distribution center in Sikeston, Mo. The move to Sikeston was announced in a news conference Wednesday.
Beal says fuel savings alone will amount to $1 million a year.
The Memphis warehouse jobs will be cut when the Sikeston facility opens in August 2009.
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Information from: The Commercial Appeal, http://www.commercialappeal.com
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mom4,
Easy to say when you aren't one of the 160 trying to buy school clothes and supplies when you are losing your job.
I AM grateful that the jobs are coming to southeast Missouri. I just wish they were new jobs.
I AM NOT SAYING THAT JOBS AREN'T IMPORTANT IN MEMPHIS...BUT OUR AREA IS DESPERATELY IN NEED OF HIGHER PAYING JOBS AND I DON'T THINK THAT THOSE JOB LOSSES WILL HURT MEMPHIS'S ECONOMY AS MUCH AS IT WILL HELP SOUTHEAST MISSOURI'S!!
GOOD JOB MIKE MARSHALL AND ALL WHO WORKED ON THIS DEAL!!