Signify to close Tupelo manufacturing plant

Signify – still known by many locally as Day-Brite – will shutter its lighting manufacturing facility on Green Street by December, eliminating approximately 135 local jobs.

The company said all manufacturing positions in Tupelo will be eliminated. Job cuts are expected to begin in April and be completed by December.

The announcement marks the end of a long and storied presence in Northeast Mississippi. What was then known simply as Day-Brite was the first major manufacturing facility to locate in Tupelo after World War II, opening in 1947.