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GLENWILLOW, Ohio — Metro Décor LLC, an e-commerce enterprise that designs and produces accent furnishings, storage and group merchandise and residential textiles, is shedding 80 workers in its workplace and distribution middle.

The corporate, which operates as MDesign Home Décor, filed a WARN Act discover with the Ohio Workplace of Workforce Improvement on Feb. 15, stating it was shedding 30 folks in its workplace location right here, efficient Feb. 29, and 50 others at its distribution middle in Solon, Ohio, efficient March 31, which can end in closing that facility. The separations are anticipated to be everlasting.

Within the WARN discover letter, Lindsay Vigorito, vice president-human sources, wrote that Metro Décor LLC “has been actively searching for capital and/or a purchaser and believed that financing or a purchaser that may have been ample to allow the corporate to keep away from worker separations might be obtained.

“We’d have appreciated to have given extra discover of the layoff and closure,” she wrote, “however had been unable to take action as a result of offering the discover would have had a destructive affect on the corporate’s potential to acquire financing or a purchaser.”

Our sister publication, Furnishings Right this moment, has reached out to Metro Décor for remark.

In 2022, MDesign Residence Décor introduced a partnership with Nebraska Furniture Mart to promote a few of its furnishings, storage and group gadgets, marking its first partnership with a brick-and-mortar retailer.

MDesign sells merchandise, together with accent furnishings starting from espresso tables and nightstands to rolling carts and material dressers, by way of its personal web site in addition to by Amazon, Goal and different e-commerce retailers. It additionally has a partnership with designer Nate Berkus for the Nate Home line that features mattress and bathtub textiles, dec pillows and residential storage gadgets.

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