Remington Arms’ Marlin Firearms to close in 2011; 265 workers to lose their jobs
By APFriday, March 26, 2010
Marlin Firearms to close next year
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. — Workers at the Marlin Firearms Co. in Connecticut say they’ve been told the 140-year-old company will close next year and all 265 employees will lose their jobs.
Workers at the North Haven company say they learned about the closure plans Thursday. They told local news media layoffs will begin in May and the company will close by June 2011.
Officials at Marlin and the company’s owner, Remington Arms Co. Inc. of Madison, N.C., didn’t immediately return phone messages Friday morning. Remington Arms bought Marlin for nearly $42 million in 2007.
Marlin’s Web site says John Marlin opened the company in 1870 in New Haven after having worked at the Colt plant in Hartford during the Civil War. The company says its lever action 22 repeater was a favorite gun of Annie Oakley.
