US layoff notices — October 2012

80WARN notices

4,859workers affected

13states

Counts cover the free tier, no delay of the normalized US WARN dataset; notices that surface later are added to this page retroactively. Worker totals sum only notices that published a headcount.

Biggest layoff notices in October 2012

Company	State	Location	Workers	Notice date
HMSHost	AZ	—	409	2012-10-29
Hallmark	KS	—	238	2012-10-29
Brunswick Boat Group (Sea Ray Boats)	TN	Knoxville, Not Identified	224	2012-10-31
Semiahmoo Resort	WA	Blaine	224	2012-10-30
Menzies Aviation (texas)	IL	Chicago, Chicago O'hare Int'l Airport South Access Road, Building 616	198	2012-10-16
Exide Technologies	TN	Bristol, Not Identified	167	2012-10-24
Merck	NJ	Kenilworth	150	2012-10-01
Northrop Brumman	KS	—	149	2012-10-31
AdvancePierre Foods	IA	Orange City	143	2012-10-17
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions	MD	5200 Philadelphia Way, Lanham, MD	125	2012-10-26
Sinful Colors	MD	10721 Tucker Street, Beltsville, MD	117	2012-10-01
Boise White Paper	OR	St. Helens	106	2012-10-16
AAA Club Partners	AZ	Glendale	104	2012-10-09
Designer Blinds	NE	Omaha	103	2012-10-12
Diamond Foods	IN	Fishers	100	2012-10-25

By state

State	Notices	Workers affected
Tennessee (TN)	15	830
Arizona (AZ)	4	658
New Jersey (NJ)	7	569
Washington (WA)	4	402
Kansas (KS)	4	397
Kentucky (KY)	7	383
Maryland (MD)	4	364
Illinois (IL)	4	361
Indiana (IN)	3	218
Oregon (OR)	7	208
Nebraska (NE)	3	159
Connecticut (CT)	16	157
Iowa (IA)	2	153

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