American Freight Layoff — March 2025
SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGOhio Department of Job and Family Services· filed December 23, 2024View the filing ↗
What we know
Location: Delaware, OH (Delaware County).
A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on December 23, 2024.
Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the OH state workforce agency.
Summary
American Freight Group, LLC announced it will institute a mass layoff at its corporate headquarters in Delaware, Ohio, as part of parent company Franchise Group's Chapter 11 restructuring and planned wind-down of the American Freight brand. A WARN notice received Dec. 2 states the entire corporate workforce at 109 Innovation Court will be laid off no later than Feb. 3, 2025, and the layoffs are expected to be permanent. The notice specifies the mass layoff will affect 62 corporate employees. Franchise Group cited poor financial performance and broader macroeconomic challenges in the large durable goods sector as reasons for winding down operations and initiating store closing sales. The planned HQ closure and layoffs are part of FRG's ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy process filed Nov. 3, 2024.
American Freight disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the OH state workforce agency on December 23, 2024. The notice covers 50 employees in Delaware, OH (Delaware County), with the layoff effective March 1, 2025.
LayoffTalk has tracked 3 layoff events at American Freight since February 2025, including 131 jobs documented in official WARN filings.
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