Did you hear? Marmot and ExOfficio get bitten by the layoff bug
“It sucks…no other way to describe it,” said Mark Martin, president of Jarden Technical Apparel, when contacted by SNEWS® regarding reported layoffs at both Marmot and ExOfficio.
Martin told us that like most companies, it had already done all the easy things to trim expenses, including a hiring freeze, executive pay cuts, etc. On Feb. 27, ExOfficio notified four employees -- a retail director, design director, a marketing coordinator and a person in receiving -- that their positions were being eliminated. On March 2, Marmot followed suit with four layoffs of its own, including notifying John Cooley that his 20-year tenure at the company had come to an end. In addition to Cooley, three others received layoff notifications across three departments, finance, marketing and product development.
--Michael Hodgson
