Not surprising as it was a single plant in which they built small sailboats and their only sailboat plant in the US. I think it's closure was part of a longer term plan but was definitely hastened by Covid 19.
While right now there is tremendous talk of Florida, Texas and California, there are many states as bad or worse in cases and deaths per million. South Carolina was doing relatively well until opened up, but now deaths per million are worse in SC than in either of those three states. Smaller southern states are flying somewhat under the radar but SC, GA, AL, MS, and LA all have very high rates of cases and deaths.
As a manufacturer in SC and with family owning hotels in Myrtle Beach, we've seen a rapid deterioration recently and a governor with blinders on. Fortunately some large manufacturers like Michelin and nearly every major school district is standing up to him.
This was a very large plant in terms of size of the facility at 255,000 square feet but only about 170 employees. Still about 2.3% of the local employment, so a significant loss.