Employer · WARN Act history · Retail Trade
Ultra Foods
313 workers across 2 WARN notices, primarily in IN - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 313
- Workers cut
- 2
- WARN notices
- 1
- State
- 157
- Avg / notice
Ultra Foods has 2 recorded WARN filings affecting 313 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Ultra Foods has 2 recorded filings covering 313 workers across 1 state, primarily IN, the 660th-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.
Ultra Foods is a minor share of Retail Trade WARN activity — 0.2% of the sector's 135,000 workers across 330 employers, ranking #42 in Retail Trade.
Ultra Foods 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.
Gary, Merrillville accounts for 55.6% of Ultra Foods's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Lead city Gary, Merrillville · 55.6% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer ULTRA-FOODS · Ultra Foods 313 workers · 2 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-MID · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNDER · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-SINGLE · TYPE-CLOSE
- NOTC-LIGHT 2 filings
- WORK-MID #660
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-UNDER 60d
- STAT-SINGLE IN
- BOOK-SINGLE 1 agency
- TYPE-CLOSE 2 closures
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 Ultra Foods WARN filings · notice runway
Top 2 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.
- Gary, Merrillville, IN · Closure · Retail Trade 174 workers · filed Apr 18, 2017 · 60d runway
- Highland, IN · Closure · Retail Trade 139 workers · filed Jul 18, 2017 · 59d runway
Median forward runway across 2 dated filings: 60 days (1 under 60d · 1 at/above 60d ).
Where Ultra Foods 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. Ultra Foods is in the 151-500 bucket (#660 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Jul 2017.
WARN Notice History
2017
Highland, IN · Retail Trade
Effective: Sep 15, 2017
139
workers
Filed Jul 18, 2017
Gary, Merrillville, IN · Retail Trade
Effective: Jun 17, 2017
174
workers
Filed Apr 18, 2017
Questions about this Ultra Foods record
What is the largest Ultra Foods WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the facility closure filed for Gary, Merrillville, IN on Apr 18, 2017, covering 174 workers in Retail Trade.
Where were Ultra Foods's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Highland and Gary, Merrillville; together they form 2 facility-closure filings sourced from Indiana DWD. States represented in this record: IN.
Where is Ultra Foods's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Gary, Merrillville accounts for 55.6% of Ultra Foods's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Does Ultra Foods's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
All 2 filings fall in 2017, so the record describes a concentrated episode rather than a multi-year cadence.
How much advance notice appears in Ultra Foods's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway is between 30 and 59 days; the WARN pay tool can value the gap, but only a qualified adviser can determine whether an exception applies.
See also: IN WARN filings · Retail Trade industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Ultra Foods 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.