QVC In Chester County Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

WEST GOSHEN TOWNSHIP, PA — QVC, the home shopping network with global headquarters just outside of West Chester, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents.

The $10 billion company, founded in 1986, is based at the Studio Park campus on Wilson Drive, just off of Route 202. They employ around 15,300 people globally, with a significant portion of the workforce in Chester County.

It's not yet clear what the impact will be on employers and if the company is looking at further layoffs. The company let off around 900 workers as it reorganized in January of last year, but that also brought some new jobs to West Chester.

Bankruptcy does not mean that closure is necessarily imminent. Indeed, the company says they will continue their operations as normal in the short term.

Filing for Chapter 11 gives QVC 90 days to create a plan to "restructure" and pay off more than $6 billion in debt. The debt is at least in part due to their declining viewership. The SEC filing pointed to the growth of streaming services.

"The increase in entertainment choices adversely affects the viewership of our programming," the company noted in the filing.

Should the bankruptcy proceedings be successful, QVC likely still faces a long road of recovery.

"Even after we emerge from bankruptcy, our having recently filed for bankruptcy could adversely affect our business and relationships with our general unsecured creditors, employees, customers, vendors, suppliers, service providers and other third parties," QVC notes in the SEC filing. "Due to uncertainties, many risks exist even after emergence from bankruptcy."

QVC is the 11th largest employer in Chester County, according to state data released in late 2025, and any impact on future operations could have a significant ripple effect for the local economy.