PVH to close Yadkin County center, affecting more than 300 jobs

Yadkin County’s PVH distribution center will close by the end of the year, company officials say.

PVH Corp. officials notified the North Carolina Department of Commerce that it plans to permanently close its facility in Jonesville. Layoffs are expected to begin in early October and run through the end of the year. The company is shifting its Jonesville operations to other facilities in Georgia.

PVH is among the largest employers in the county, says Bobby Todd of the Yadkin County Economic Development Council.

“The closure is over a pretty long runway, so I think a lot of, a lot of those skills will transfer to other local companies,” he says.

PVH is a global apparel company based in New York City whose brands include Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger.

More than 200 of the 317 affected positions are either machine operators or material handlers.

As of November Yadkin’s unemployment rate was 3.1%, among the lowest in the state.