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Sikeston Orgill move will cost Memphis 160 jobsThursday, July 17, 2008MEMPHIS, 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. ——— Information from: The Commercial Appeal, http://www.commercialappeal.com Comments  Note: The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive, please Login or Create an account first, and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. Please also note that those who post comments on semissourian.com may do so using a screen name, which may or may not reflect a website user's actual name. Readers should be careful not to assign comments to real people who may have names similar to screen names. Refrain from obscenity in your comments, and to keep discussions civil, don't say anything in a way your grandmother would be ashamed to read.
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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!!
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.