Layoffs at Timberland

Timberland, one of the most prominent employers in the Seacoast, laid off an unspecified number of employees recently, a company official said today.

The layoffs came after the company was for more than $2 billion last year by Greensboro, N.C.-based VF, which owns The North Face and several other brands. At the time, Timberland employed about 750 at its Stratham headquarters.

Robin Giampa, Timberland's director of corporate communications, released the following statement about the layoffs:

We are continuing to evolve our organizational structure so that it is better aligned with our long term growth and profit objectives. Unfortunately, this evolution includes hard choices about people, and has impacted colleagues within the Timberland community. Over time, growing the business and adding new capabilities should actually result in more Timberland jobs being added in the coming years.