Image Entertainment will close its Las Vegas distribution center,...
Image Entertainment will close its Las Vegas distribution center, cutting 64 full- (44) and part (10-20)- time jobs as it shifts production to Sonopress’s Grand Prairie, Wisc. facility, Senior Operations Vp Rick Eiberg said.. Sonopress, which replicates Image’s titles…
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at its plant in Louisville, Ky., recently competed the purchase of the Wis. factory from Deluxe. The shift to the Sonopress plant is expected to be complete by Sept. 30, Eiberg told us. When the transition is complete, titles will be produced in Ky. and driven 350 miles to the Wis. facility, Eiberg said. The distribution pact is an extension of the 5-year replication that Image signed with Sonopress last year. Discussions regarding shifting some distribution to Sonopress started before Image’s proposed sale to BTP, Eiberg said. BTP struck an agreement to buy Image for $132 million. Image opened a leased 76,000-sq.-ft. Las Vegas distribution center in 1999. It also had a lease that expires in Nov. for 4 acres of adjacent land for possible expansion.