WestPoint Home Shutting Plant, Offshoring North Carolina Jobs

New York’s WestPoint Home will close its Elkin, North Carolina plant in June, and cut 134 jobs.

WestPoint, which makes bed & bath home fashions, will also close its blanket plant in Biddeford, Maine, and another plant in Chipley, Florida.

In the midst of the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, WestPoint has chosen to offshore American jobs.

WestPoint Home will have only one plant remaining, in Greenville, Alabama.

Today, WestPoint Home has around 6,700 employees, 16 plants, six distribution centers and 30 outlet stores.