MEC TO Close Its Ontario Distribution Centre
Mountain Equipment Co-op will be closing its distribution centre in Brampton, Ontario which serves eastern Canada. The location will close in May which will also mean a loss of about 60 jobs. U.S. private investment firm Kingswood Capital Management purchased MEC in September of 2020, and has since closed a MEC store and terminated numerous jobs.
“When Kingswood’s acquisition of MEC was announced, the co-operative’s employees and its five million members across Canada were told the new American owner would save jobs, was committed to ‘honouring the MEC ethos’ and had ‘tremendous respect for those values’ that were built over 50 years.
MEC workers and their families in Brampton believe the new owner should make good on those commitments. MEC should invest in its Brampton employees and in its distribution and e-commerce operations in the community.
The timing and the callousness of dropping this bombshell on loyal employees – that they are about to lose their jobs in the middle of a pandemic – is very disconcerting, to say the least,”
Evan Holt
