DENVER—A 100-year-old Denver printing company says it will close its doors by the end of the month and lay off all 250 of its employees.
National Hirschfeld, run by three generations of the Hirschfeld family, cited the economic downturn and a lack of financing in announcing its decision.
Chairman A. Barry Hirschfeld said in a statement: “The company finds itself facing many of the same glum economy-based issues businesses and individuals are facing across this country and around the world.”
Hirschfeld’s grandfather, A.B. Hirschfeld, started the company in 1907 in the basement of a fruit stand at 17th and Larimer streets.
In 2005, A. Barry Hirschfeld merged the A.B. Hirschfeld Press Inc. with three other local printers to create one of the state’s largest printers. The company took the name National Hirschfeld.
