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MUKILTEO — Penguin Windows will likely shut down its Puget Sound operations after it has completed all of its contracts and regroup at its Vancouver, Wash. facility, a spokesman said this morning.
Steve Johnson, a Seattle lawyer for the Mukilteo-based company, said the company is hoping to regroup but is finding it difficult because of the economy and the negative publicity it received this week.
Penguin laid off 160 workers in the Puget Sound area earlier this week and plans to lay off 50 here on March 14, Johnson said. State officials had said the company was planning on laying off 160 more at its Vancouver office after that, but Johnson said that's not the plan.
“They're trying to stay alive through the Vancouver office,” he said.
He said the customers should know that the company intends to complete all of its projects and to finish “all of the contracts in place.”
