ATTN: Governor O'Malley
Area Plant Closings – (Free Enterprise)
Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset, & Dorchester Counties
Unemployed
1. Sealy Upholstery Co. Unknown – (Best Estimate
150+)
2. Field Container Corp. Unknown – (Best Estimate
150+)
3. Dresser Industries 500 – 600 -(Facility moved to
Austin, Texas
At height of business it em-
ployed over 1000 employees.
4. Shawnee Homes Unknown – (Best guestimate
150+)
5. Salisbury Engineering Moved entire operation to
State of Delaware
6. Heinemann Electric Unknown, Northwood
Industrial Park.
7. Moore Business Forms 148 – Shutdown 07-27-94,
Snowhill, Maryland
8. Campbell Soup – Salisbury, MD 604 Employees in Salisbury
9. Campbell Soup – Swanson Division
Pocomoke, MD 245 Employees
10. Campbell Soup – Mrs. Paul’s Kitchen
Crisfield, MD 200 Employees
11. Montgomery Wards 110 Employees
Salisbury, MD
12. Gant Shirt Factory 250 Employees
13. Jodi Shirt Co. 100 Employees
14. Delmar Sportswear 90 Employees
15. Ford Laboratory 70 Employees
Salisbury, MD
16. Grumman Corp, Salisbury, MD 401 – Employed 523 at
Height of production.
17. Peninsula Press, Salisbury, MD 45 - Employees
18. Preston Trucking Co., Preston, MD Unknown, filed for
Bankruptcy Protection
19. Chesapeake Bay Plywood Corp. 500 Employees – Plywood
Pocomoke City, MD. Plant shutdown
20. Ruddy Duck 100 Employees
Cambridge, Maryand
21. Airpax Industries 500 – (Best guestimate)
Cambridge, Maryland At height of production it
employed almost 1500
workers. Moved lighting
division to Matamoras,
Mexico.
22. Service Merchandise 75 Employees
Mt. Hermon Road
Salisbury, MD
23. Purity Bacon Unknown, South Division
Salisbury, MD.
24. E.S. Adkins & Co. Unknown, North
Salisbury Blvd, Salisbury
Maryland
25. Masten Home Center Unknown, Rt. 13, South
Salisbury Blvd.
26. IMS (MVP.com) 40-50 Employees – WBOC
reporting - (Old Campbell’s
Soup Bldg at Lake Street)
27. Powellville Garment Factory Closure announced 02/01
100 – (Best guestimate)-
Located in Powellville, MD.
28. Food Depot
Old Salisbury Mall, Salisbury, MD Unknown – Old Salisbury
Mall building.
29. Crown, Cork & Seal Unknown, Announced plant
Fruitland, MD closure 01-14-02
30. Central Tractor
Rt.13, Fruitland, MD Unknown, Announced
closure 01-14-02
31. Ames Unknown, Announced
Rt. 50 & Tilghman Road Closure 11-14-01
Salisbury, Maryland
32. Nanticoke Homes, Greewood, DE Unknown, Announced
closure 07-02
33. Stoney Point Decoy Factory 35-40 Employees at peak,
Crisfield, MD. Daily Times reporting J.
Cording – Announced
closure 04-19-03.
34. Tyson Foods, Berlin, MD. Facility 600 Employees -
Announced closure
04-21-03
35. Black & Decker, Easton, MD 1400 Employees -
Announced closure
04-29-03. Moving plant to
Brazil & Mexico
(Daily Times reporter
John Vandiver 04-29-03)
36. Pine Country Corp., Pocomoke, MD 35 Employees (Daily Times
reported 10-26-03)
Operations ceased 09/03.
37. Chesapeake Hardwood Mill Operations ceased spring
Peggy Neck Road, Princess
Anne, MD.
2002, 40 Employees
Alan Parker, Plant Manager
38. Salisbury Steel Products Inc. 909 Boundary St., Salisbury
MD. Operations ceased
08-03. 35 Employees
Per C.J. Townsend
39. US Air Salisbury Airport, filed
for Bankruptcy protection;
Reorganization in process;
Abandoned flights to BWI.
40. True Value Hardware Announced closure of
Isabella Street location,
Salisbury, MD. 03-04.
No. Employees Unknown
41. Office Max Salisbury, MD. Announced
closure February 2004
42. Helovet Pharma Northwood Industrial Park
No. Employees Unknown
Announced closure Salisbury
location March 2005
43. Giant Food, N. Salisbury Blvd. 75 Displaced workers,
Salisbury, MD. Announced closure 10-22-06
44. Super Deep Discount Drugs Located across from Giant’s
South Salisbury Blvd. location,
Announced shutdown 10-22-06
Displaced employees unknown
45. JV Wells, Inc., Sharptown, MD. Employed over 100
Largest Maryland Timber
Company.
46. Nanticoke Seafood It was owned by Booth
Fisheries, Rich Sea Pak
And most recently by Cape
May Canners who moved it to
New Jersey
47. Islandic Seafood, Cambridge Md. Dorchester’s largest
remaining employer.
The Daily Times reported
300 layoffs March 30, 2007,
and an additional 122 that are
to be laid off by end of 2007.
48. Brunswick – Bayliner/Maxum One of Wicomico’s largest
remaining employers
announced closure on 07/2/07
The Daily Times reported 180
Layoffs July 4, 2007.
Spurred by tax incentives from
North Carolina contributed to
Decision to move plant.
49. Americhem Inc. Marvel Road facility,
Northwood Industrial Park
Announced closure on
10-23-07. The Daily Times
reported 30 layoffs possibly
45 displacements
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41 comments:
Now you need to list all of the new ones that have opened during the same period to put it in perspective.
I worked for Office Max when it closed. They closed the Dover store around that time, too. The closest OM is now Wilmington. They said it wasn't cost effective to ship items to us as we were at the end of the district (mostly NJ and some PA). 15+ people lost their jobs there. They also told us we would be getting a bonus for sticking it out until the end...that never happened. It was silly because we were just starting to make big business. OM had been bought out and we were actually getting shipments of the advertised items when the advertisement actually ran. We were making more money when we were closed than we made any other time in the years I worked there.
#1 anonymous,
YOU post them or e-mail them to me and I'll post them.
Too right, Anon. When I read the posting, I knew that some of the lost jobs were absorbed by new companies. Then again, a resident of the city or surrounding areas would know that.
I happen to know that Sby Engineering was bought out by a company out of PA. They found it more cost effective to run out of Delaware. Maybe it has something to do with the advantagous incorporation laws.
Maybe the good Governor should be more concerned with that than raising taxes and adding to the structural deficit that he himself created.
Now you need to list all of the new ones that have opened during the same period to put it in perspective.
Then there are the supermarket closings in the past 5 or so years:
Super Fresh, followed by Giant at North Point
Acme at the Twilley Center
Food Depot at the old Sal. Mall
Sure shows what Wal-Mart can do to you!
bahahahahahahahaha
What about the Atlantic Book Warehouse -- a real shame.
Not to mention all of the Meatlands, Thriftway's, and Acme's and Roses.
Their may be jobs that have replaced some of these jobs, but the fact of the matter is that most of the lost jobs were manufacturing and or grocer jobs, those jobs are what are known as 'Breadwinner' jobs and the lame jobs that have replaced them will not support a family.
You don't need to blame Walmart, you need to blame your selves.
Walmart took advantage of the apathy of the average American.
NAFTA and GAT were Clintons babies, and you elected him, and his cronies to push this through, and you also allowed your city councils to approve Walmart to come to your town, because they are whores who are willing to trade their city's soul to the mega retailer for a little infastructural kickback.
Excellent Point and powerfully true.
True, but I didn't vote for Clinton. We need to get back to Mom and Pop and personal service.
wymzie:
Wal-Mart has done more to help the average Joe than almost any other business in history -- the latest is the special discount drug program (actually saving lives along with $$$$$). Here the biggies -- Henson, Perdue, etc. -- prefer to have a building with their name on it at SU, instead of true benefactoring to help those who allowed them to succeed.
Joe:
Isn't it time to retire your picture with Gov. O'Money-Your.
It does make a great dart board, though, so I downloaded it for future use.
Walmart is not evil.
However, we must take responsibility and say enough is enough.
Do you know that Walmarts old biz model was to have a store every 30 miles away from one another? That is why Salisbury had one and then Pocomoke, and they finally got their hands on Onley/Onancock. However, their new biz model is to have a store every 12 miles that why you guys in the north end have yet another one in Fruitland.
When Walmart comes to town all of the local CEO's (ma and pa's) go under. There is no way to compete with Walmart. When you loose the Ma and Pa's you loose your biggest givers to Charity, and volunteerism. You essentially take the heart out of the community, and if the Walmart fails and many do, you don't get the Ma and Pa to come back. They are gone, for at least a generation. We love our homogenized America. We just need to take responsibility about where we allow them to build. We must stop the sprawl!
Where I live in Pocomoke the city allowed a Walmart to be built, thus putting 4 grocery stores out of business, but do you even think that they though it would be a good idea to install a sidewalk and a cross walk so that you could send your kid to the store to get a gallon of milk. No...that would make too much sense. 4 neighborhood grocery stores gone. We face issues about becoming more green, and not using so much gas yet we still support zoning and city policy that make it impossible to safely walk anywhere.
WAKE UP!
Sorry, Joe. You took the time to search out the closings. If you want to do a balanced job, complete the task. These "statistics" mean nothing unless there's something to compare them to.
Sorry Barrie,
But if YOU want to help your own cause, DO IT YOURSELF! I did what I set out to do. Now get off your own rear end and deliver what you want to call the positive side of Salisbury. This I can't wait to see.
If I was Barrie, I might take offense, but I'm a long ways from being her. It's ok. I've made my point. You aren't interested too much in fair reporting, only in "sensationalizing" a point, many times incorrectly.
wymziw:
It's called survival of the fittest, baby
BTW: lots of local biz does just fine competing with Wal-Mart.
Look at the Ace hardware in Salisbury for example, plus several computer firms, etc.
How come nobody else who lives in P. C., including me, is complaining?
Amen, Wymzie. There are towns that actually do campaigns to keep Wal-Mart out -- and win.
It's like you said -- it's not that Wal-Mart is evil. But "survival of the fittest" in business doesn't always spell economic success for a community as a whole.
Wal-Mart caters to families struggling on lower wage jobs. To me, it's an indicator that standard of living is going down, not up.
Ace,
I was and am one of the people who come to your store and support your business instead of going to Walmart. Ace is a great store, you can't beat the service and I love to come in and give you my business. Your store offers exactly what Walmart is lacking personalized service.
I hear a lot of complaining in Pocomoke, and your right it is survival of the fittest and as I have said many times we need to dodge and weave and do better than our competitors in order to survive. Unfortunately, many small business' don't have the cash flow to tide them over till people get sick of Walmart and realize that their prices have gone up as high as the people they have put out of business, and they really enjoyed knowing the person who serves them, and helps them with their purchases.
I am and always will be an advocate of the free market, however, as a community we have to decide what we want our community to look like in five, ten and fifty years.
Wanna know how many people care? Ask the three people who attended the comprehensive plan meeting for Pocomoke City !
Wymzie and Teacherlady are right. Capitalism permits aggressive business to succeed in theory. But the market forces driven by the consumer create the environment. The greed of the consumer has allowed larger stores to offer a lower price and push the Mom and Pop stores out of business - and customer service along with it. Just try this.....go into Lowes or Home Depot (like I do alomst every day) and ask for some advice on how to use some type of tool. You will probably get a minimum wage employee giving you a minimum wage response - you know - head kinda twisting from side to side like a confused dog. Now go to a small hardware store or lumberyard like Delaware Lumber and ask them a simple question like why are there 93" AND 92 5/8" pre-cut studs and the owner can tell you. They can deliver something the next day not "next Thursday between 12 and 4" The quest for more money has caused Americans to compromise customer service, quality, solid work ethic, and every friggin' bit of the values we used to cherish that made us Americans
The snippy comment above sounds like chicken little AKA Cathcart.
She quit her neighborhood association when they shot down her idea to turn it in to 55 and older.
People want to leave their property to their kids without restrictions. There are enough 55 and over places, she should move. Love it or leave it.
OMG!Tell me,what new jobs have been created in this area other than slave wage service jobs?
I really really really don't like Wal-Mart. It is dirty, disgusting, and smells of rotten produce (although the one in Fruitland seems a little better). Their organic selections are non-existent. Their prices aren't all that much cheaper. The store is filled with trashy shoppers. They have 25 cashier lanes, but only 8 open at a time. The cashiers are SLOW. Frankly, I don't care so much about personal service, I care about getting my purchases tallied up so I can get out of the store. It seems at Wal-Mart, I always get someone who wants to make conversation. Like I care about the trials and tribulations of their life or their day. They need to do their job quickly and efficiently. I rarely go to Wal-Mart. I go to Giant, where the store is clean, I get friendly but fast and efficient service, and I go to Target, where again, the store is clean, organized, and the staff is friendly. My God- at Target, they even call for associates to open new cashier lanes when it starts to get backed up. I also support local, mom and pop businesses, when convenient. I do despise being asked if I need help though- I'm an adult and I know how to ask for what I want or need. I'm a very decisive shopper- not your typical female shopper for sure. I can spend 20 minutes in Macy's and know definitively if there is anything I want to purchase or not. I hate wasting time.
Keep it up Joe the fire department will close.
That list is riddled with inaccuracies. I don't know where Joe plagarized the list from...(do you idiots think he did that himself?) but there are several mistakes. Investigative reporting by Albero? NOT!
Tyson lost 600 employees just think of all the black salisbury fire department could have had. Too late now their on wel-fare.
Agreed anon.
I worked for one of the places listed when they closed. It is hard to tell how many of the people that worked there didnt bother to get a job and are welfaring it. I know at least one took the easy way out and got locked up.
"go into Lowes or Home Depot (like I do alomst every day) and ask for some advice on how to use some type of tool. You will probably get a minimum wage employee giving you a minimum wage response - you know - head kinda twisting from side to side like a confused dog. Now go to a small hardware store or lumberyard like Delaware Lumber and ask them a simple question like why are there 93" AND 92 5/8" pre-cut studs and the owner can tell you. They can deliver something the next day not "next Thursday between 12 and 4"
Well Grandad, if you want lumber delivered next day Lowes will usually do it. Ask Delaware lumber deliver a fridge and see how long it takes. You probably talk to a cashier near the tool department to conclude your answers. The tool department employees there have been there for a while and do know what they are talking about.
Lowes has been in this town for many years, started as a small company and grew like any company would want to. Sure there is some turnover, but you would not believe the tenure of employees at this Lowes in Salisbury.
Next time you want a delivery next day from Lowes, come see me... I work there and and proud of it. Almost 16 years.
While I will agree with you that Delaware lumber is a good company ( Most employees are former Lowes employees including the owner) one reason they can deliver faster is that they dont have the business Lowes has. We deliver more in one day usually than they do in a week.
Like i said.. need wood... we will deliver next day in most cases.
Like I said... come see me... I am in the millwork department and waiting to sell to you!!
Jim
GO CAPS!
Coastal Appliance Parts recently closed on Snow Hill Rd. I don't know if they moved or went out of business.
I want someone to list what businesses replaced Dresser, Crown Cork & Seal, Purity Bacon with the same wages they paid. I'd like someone to list any company that has been replaced by another company that pays a living wage. All I see in Salisbury and the surrounding area is restaurants and retailers, most hiring part time employees only to avoid providing a benefit package.
you forgot the linen place. very recent closure.
Ace is only successful in town because the best way to get to Lowes, Home Depot & Farm & Family from the south end of town in by parachute!
84 Lumber has been a big disappointment. Too bad. In other towns, their stores are great.
Grunman- Replaced with Harvard Custom Manufacturing
Ames- entire chain closed
Monkey wards- Entire chain closed
Mrs Paul's- If memory serves me correctly. The owners were indicted on drug or money charges and closed
Piedmont-BWI closure had nothing to do with the bankruptcy. They moved their hub operations to PHL. Same amount of flights. However, just going to a diffrent location.(most of the ground ops for piedmont
Crown C&S- Blame the union... The unions don't have power they once had of the companies they work.. If the workers strike and want more many than the company wants to give. The company just closes the plant moves operations to a cheaper location. Also, I believe Dresser fell under the same deal to many strikes... Moved to texas. Where illegal's will gladly make fuel pumps for 7 bucks and hour compared to the 15-20 bucks people were making here..
My business closed after 18 yrs. on the 'Shore with a high of 15 employes. We averaged $12-$15.00 per hr for non-technical,non-skilled labor employes and closed due to out of control cost we were unable to pass on to customers. In big part due to competitors paying illegal aliens sub-minimum wage to do many of the same task. In a "whored" business climate there are no winners period.
So Everyone there are 35 comments addressing the reasons we have lost all of these breadwinner jobs, and the consensus is ... illegals doing it cheaper in another state, or outsourcing to another country.
How many of you called your senators on Tuesday and told them not to let Reed pass the illegal alien bill he wants soooo bad?
We need to become protectionist of our country, and reject the NAFTA and GAT treaty! We need to stop buying things that are made in China and Mexico and start buying American. The free market is a wonderful thing, if we don't buy it, they won't make it. If we tell the stores through our wallets that we don't want this garbage we can change the tide.
It's up to us, if we don't take measures to change it we will not have a Republic to call home. We will watch everything we know crumble. We are already seeing it everywhere we look.
We have become lazy and spoiled, whiners who don't want to take responsibility for our actions. Just start with your own grocery list. Shop for your vegetable from a local farmer or join a CSA.
Shop for your meats as at a butcher. Buy your eggs from a farm. These are all do-able things, but we still live in a rural area so it is possible; it does take a little more time but we can do it.
Rats. I wish I had seen this thread yesterday.
Businesses come and go with technology replacing many workers. But the most egregious are the corporate greed and laziness. Yes, I said laziness. All the big execs want to do is sit in front of a computer screen and let everyone else knock themselves out. And that crocidile crying of "we can't compete and have these pesky American workers!" How many businesses were losing money and then were saved by going overseas? Never mind who helped build the business over the years.
Many American workers are veterans of not one plant closure but two or more plant closures. I was at Dresser and they had had their most profitable year before they left. They cried poor and then gave their CEO ,Dick Cheney, a $20 million parting gift so he could be VP.
Now I'm at Airpax that's been sold to Sensata who promptly shut down the Frederick plant and now recently said there'd be "downsizing" at Cambridge plant. One coworker was a veteran of Heinmann mentioned above. They went to Mexico.
Don't EVER listen to the politicians and economists who say " Well, the local economy will absorb the displaced worker."
One comment said alert your congressmen. Good, but don't expect much out of those losers.
Bob Pinto
Bob,
Thanks for sharing that information. Joe
Do you want to make a differance?
$20 a month
$20 a month
$20 a month
If everyone spent $20 a month onUS made products 3-million jobs would be created overnight.
3 MILLION JOBS CREATED IF PEOPLE WOULD READ THE LABEL, SAY NO TO CHINA AND YES TO THE USA.
We can all afford $20 a month
The sad thing is try to practice what I am preaching... Farm goods& produce dont count.
Its really hard to find a product under $20 made in the USA
$20 a month
$20 a month
$20 a month
3 MILLION JOBS
GO FIGURE
You can believe you will not find it at WALLY LAND, They make people give them their price or they shut them out. They are legalized extortionist. Help the community to cover their guilt.... All the large companies buy their way out of their sins. Bottom line is all they worry about. Bottom line means more money for them and less for you.
Don't forget about the closing of Campbell Soup/Swanson plant. We are losing long term employers to corporate welfare tax breaks, when the breaks are over so is their business.
Just like recieving a grant for home improvement or a Maryland bond loan the recipients are required to maintain residence for at least 5 years and pay taxes. The language in these deals should spell out that the companies recieving the breaks must maintain the business for a required amount of time.
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