Georgia Narrow Fabrics, a mainstay of Jesup’s industrial community for the last quarter of a century, announced earlier this week that it will be closing later this year and outsourcing its labor to Central America.

GSC Partners, the New York investment firm that owns Georgia Narrow Fabrics, will move production tentatively to Honduras.
more than 100 employees will be out of a job.
Georgia Narrow Fabrics, in order to compete with foreign competition, has to drive its prices down. That means cutting labor costs, and cutting labor costs means moving production out of the country.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atrium closing Shelton site, laying off 69
The Connecticut Post
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Sara Lee to lay off nearly 1,700 employees, most in Mississippi
Sun Herald
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Port Huron will lose one of its top five taxpayers if Collins & Aikman cannot find a buyer and closes its Dove Street facility.

Officials last week confirmed plans to close the plant, which employs about 530 people, if it cannot be sold by March 3 as part of the company's bankruptcy proceedings.
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Noxubee brick plant to close, lay off 79 workers
Commercial Dispatch
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