Furniture company to lay off 101 Florida employees amid bankruptcy

Furniture retailer W.S. Badcock LLC will lay off more than 100 workers at its headquarters in Polk County and launch sales at all of its stores as it prepares to go out of business. The developments come after parent company Conn’s HomePlus filed for bankruptcy July 23 in Texas.

Both home furnishings companies have been in business more than 100 years and now are filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Badcock will be closing its facility at 190 Northwest Phosphate Boulevard in Mulberry and starting terminations of 101 employees as of Sept. 23. More layoffs are expected afterward as the company goes through the bankruptcy process and winds down operations at the site, which is set for permanent closure, Badcock says in a statement provided to the Florida Department of Commerce dated July 24 and posted July 29 to the state website.