A spokesman with Fusion Connect says the company’s recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing won’t affect operations at the Emporia facility.
Spokesman Brian Coyne tells KVOE News the filing should not have “a material impact” on local operations. He says the company is committed to the Emporia facility, having made “significant additional functions” to it over the past year, including customer care and support for customers who came to Fusion from Birch and from other legacy companies. Coyne says customer network monitoring was also added to the office at 1301 Chestnut.
After buying Birch for close to $600 million just over a year ago, Fusion Connect and its American subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 on June 10. Bloomberg says the current plan — unless something better comes along — is to have senior lenders owed almost $575 million to take over the company as part of a debt-for-reorganization plan to cut $300 million in debt. Fusion will hold an auction as it looks for a better deal.
