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HanesBrands Inc. to close High Point Distribution Center, cut up to 75 jobs

HanesBrands Inc. has announced plans to permanently close its High Point Distribution Center. The Winston-Salem-based apparel maker let state officials know that the planned closure of the distribution center on Eagle Hill Drive will take place in late January.

Earlier this year, HanesBrands sold its global Champion line of apparel to Authentic Brands Group for more than $1 billion.

In a notice to state officials this month, HanesBrands said the distribution center was focused on the Champion business. With the sale, the company no longer needs it.

The notice detailed the layoff of up to 75 positions.

Hanesbrands officials declined further comment.

In February, the company announced plans to lay off more than 150 workers at its distribution center on Annapolis Drive in Winston-Salem.

This week, Hanesbrands reported a third-quarter profit of $30 million. 

 

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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