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Ashley Furniture to close Statesville facility, move some jobs to Advance

Ashley Furniture Industries is closing its distribution facility in Statesville, NC, the company has told state officials. 

The company told workers last month that it is consolidating the Statesville facility with its manufacturing plant in Advance.

“In connection with this strategy, we will be offering Statesville employees opportunities to continue working at Ashley in the Advance facility,” company officials said in a statement released to WFDD.

The closure will affect 111 employees, according to a letter sent to the North Carolina Department of Commerce under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. 

Ashley Furniture did not provide an exact number of how many positions are available in Advance, but said there would be “many opportunities” for Statesville workers.

The Statesville facility is scheduled to close November 15.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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