Employer · WARN Act history · Other Services
Berry Plastics
300 workers across 3 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 300
- Workers cut
- 3
- WARN notices
- 2
- States
- 100
- Avg / notice
Berry Plastics has 3 recorded WARN filings affecting 300 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Berry Plastics has 3 recorded filings covering 300 workers across 2 states, primarily WA, the 697th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Berry Plastics is a minor share of Other Services WARN activity — under 0.1% of the sector's 460,348 workers across 3,497 employers, ranking #272 in Other Services.
How 300 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
Berry Plastics WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Berry Plastics WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 2 states by total workers affected.
| Year | WA | VA | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 118 | – | 118 |
| 2012 | 59 | – | 59 |
| 2011 | – | 123 | 123 |
Berry Plastics city concentration · concentrated
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
Kent accounts for 59% of Berry Plastics's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Lead city Kent · 59% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer BERRY-PLASTI · Berry Plastics 300 workers · 3 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-MID · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-EXACT · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-DUAL · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-LIGHT 3 filings
- WORK-MID #697
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-EXACT 60d
- STAT-MULTI 2 states
- BOOK-DUAL 2 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 2C/1L
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Berry Plastics WARN filings · notice runway
Top 3 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Henrico, VA · Closure · Other Services 123 workers · filed Oct 28, 2011 · 65d runway
- Kent, WA · Closure · Other Services 118 workers · filed Nov 20, 2013 · 60d runway
- Kent, WA · Layoff · Other Services 59 workers · filed Sep 10, 2012 · retroactive dates
Median forward runway across 3 dated filings: 60 days (1 under 60d · 2 at/above 60d · 1 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Berry Plastics WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2011 → 2012: WARN workers affected for Berry Plastics fell from 123 in 2011 to 59 in 2012; notice count held from 1 to 1.
- 2012 → 2013: WARN workers affected for Berry Plastics rose from 59 in 2012 to 118 in 2013; notice count held from 1 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2013.
Where Berry Plastics Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Berry Plastics is in the 151-500 bucket (#697 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Other Services
- First Notice
- Oct 28, 2011
- Latest Notice
- Nov 20, 2013
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Nov 2013.
WARN Notice History
2013
Kent, WA · Other Services
Effective: Jan 19, 2014
118
workers
Filed Nov 20, 2013
2012
Kent, WA · Other Services
Effective: Aug 24, 2012
59
workers
Filed Sep 10, 2012
2011
Henrico, VA · Other Services
Effective: Jan 1, 2012
123
workers
Filed Oct 28, 2011
Questions about this Berry Plastics record
What is the largest Berry Plastics WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the facility closure filed for Henrico, VA on Oct 28, 2011, covering 123 workers in Other Services.
Where were Berry Plastics's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Kent and Henrico; together they form 2 facility closures and 1 mass-layoff filing sourced from Washington ESD and Virginia Works. States represented in this record: VA, WA.
Where is Berry Plastics's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Kent accounts for 59% of Berry Plastics's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Does Berry Plastics's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2011 through 2013 across 3 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Berry Plastics's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway lands exactly on the federal 60-day baseline; verify the source dates before treating that timing as final. Of 3 filings on record, 1 dated effective before the notice itself is excluded from that figure.
See also: WA WARN filings · Other Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Berry Plastics notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.