Hanesbrands will shutter a Missouri plant that it acquired a year ago through its $55 million purchase of Gear for Sports. About 125 people work at the plant, whose functions are being moved to Mexico.
The Chillicothe plant was opened by Gear for Sports in 2001 and is scheduled to close in December. It was used for apparel decorating and screen printing.
“We regret the loss of jobs for our Chillicothe employees,” Craig Peterson, Gear for Sports general manager of operations, finance and administration, said in a statement.
To maintain competitiveness, HanesBrands is opening a new apparel decorating and screen-print facility in Reynosa, Mexico, that will replace the Chillicothe plant's production for Gear For Sports, and will supply other HanesBrands retail apparel businesses. HanesBrand plans to sell the Chillicothe property after it closes.
Gear for Sports, which produces licensed college and athletic logo sportswear, was purchased by North Carolina-based HanesBrands in
August 2010 for $225 million.
