RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A printing company whose Virginia operation dates back more than a century has announced it is closing the facility, putting 184 people out of a job.
Cenveo Worldwide Ltd. told state officials in a WARN Act notice dated May 4 that it is shutting down its plant in Henrico plant by May 31, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported on Wednesday.
The plant provides printing for publishers of magazines, comic books, journals and direct mail advertisements, but the company said in its notice to state officials that the coronavirus pandemic has hurt business.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted our customers’ businesses and, in turn, has diminished the available work at the facility,” Laurie Burger, the company’s regional human resources manager, wrote in the notice. “One large customer has ceased all work permanently, several publishers have canceled or delayed their print projects, and nearly all comic production has ceased.”
Cenveo, based in Stamford, Connecticut, bought the local operations including a 254,000-square-foot plant in 2007 in a $430 million buyout of Richmond-based Cadmus Communications Corp., whose roots go back to the founding of William Byrd Press in Richmond in 1913. The company was created in 1984 by the merger of William Byrd Press and Washburn Graphics Inc. of Charlotte, North Carolina.
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