Home Depot Appliance Partner Abruptly Shuts Down, Files for Bankruptcy

Home Depot partner Wren Kitchens has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and has shuttered its doors.

The kitchen retailer created a strategic partnership with Home Depot back in 2024, putting their appliances in showrooms across the East Coast. Now the company has abruptly shut down its 15 brick-and-mortar stores after filing for chapter seven liquidation bankruptcy.

“Wren Kitchens has alerted us that they’ve ceased operations in the United States, which includes closing their showrooms in our stores… We had no previous notice of Wren’s intent to close, and we’re actively evaluating how this has affected Wren customers to help those who may have questions or issues,” said Home Depot in a statement.

The UK-based company filed its Chapter 7 petition under its Wren US Holdings Inc., listing $100 million to $500 million in assets according to the Bankruptcy Observer. The parent company has been seeing a steady decline in sales over several years, with a £15 million net loss reported in 2025 and a similar loss the year before in 2024, per a report from the KBB review.

The Wren Kitchens website doesn’t expand on the recent bankruptcy, but offers a form for those needing assistance from the company. “We regret to inform you that our showrooms and studios are now closed,” it says.

Company Faced Troubles

The new liquidation is also coming with a class action lawsuit. Former employees of the company allege that no notice was given in regard to the shuttering of the company or its physical stores. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers to give a team of 100 or more full-time employees a 60-day notice for upcoming layoffs.

“Nobody knew about it, none of our managers, nobody in the whole company, and everybody in the company got fired,” Madison Cohen, a kitchen designer for the company, told NBC. “Our manager kind of comes, and just kind of grabs us out of the blue… we go outside, and he kind of tells us, like, oh, we all just lost our jobs. Our company is shut down.”