MBNA to Close Four Facilities in Maine, NH and California

Credit card company MBNA will close a major call center in Rockland, Maine and an education center in Northport, along with a smaller call center in Dover, N.H., and a facility in California.

The Rockland center, with 300 employees, and the Dover center, with 50 employees, will close by April; the Northport education facility, with 50 employees, will close in May, Brian Dalphon, director of media relations, said Monday.

Also, MBNA will close its only call center in California in Aliso Viejo, where 170 people are employed, by mid-April, Dalphon said.

?This was in an effort to get to a place where our staffing level matches our outlook for future growth,? Dalphon said from Belfast.

Activities performed at the Maine locations will be consolidated into other MBNA facilities in the state. Other MBNA facilities are located in Belfast, Portland, Presque Isle, Brunswick, Farmington, Orono and Fort Kent.

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