Layoffs Hit Sells Printing in New Berlin

Sells Printing Co. has filed a mass layoff notice impacting about 67 workers at its New Berlin (WI) operations. In a letter to the state Department of Workforce Development, the company said: “We presently anticipate that 55 SPC employees will be permanently laid off on June 22, 2012. In addition, SPC intends to permanently layoff one employee on June 13, 2012, five employees on Sept. 28, 2012, and six employees on Dec. 31, 2012.”

It was announced in March that certain business interests and assets of Sells was being acquired by Ripon Printers, of Ripon. The company will permanently cease operations