C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc., Belle Foods' largest creditor, may close its warehouse in Oxmoor Valley, Alabama, laying off 203 people.
The New Hampshire-based company's Birmingham Logistics LLC said that it could begin layoffs at the facility as soon as August 28, according to AL.com.
Whether C&S actually closes the warehouse depends on whether grocer Belle Foods continues to use the wholesale grocery distributor, according to the Birmingham Business Journal.
Belle Foods, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with more than $42 million in debt July 1. A company attorney was quoted in the report as saying the grocer has no plans to change distributors. Belle is in the process of reorganizing with the hope of returning to solvency.
Belle, a tenant of the C&S-owned office building that was formerly home to grocer Bruno's, directly and indirectly owes C&S a total of $34 million.
