Wren Kitchens is packing up and going home. The U.K.-based company’s American operation filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on April 24 and abruptly shuttered all 15 of its stateside showrooms. Former employees say that they were terminated via a Zoom call on April 23, during which company leadership said that operations would stop immediately. Wren’s U.K. business is continuing unaffected.

The cabinetry brand, which operates more than 100 showrooms in the U.K., launched in the U.S. in February 2020, opening a 252,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and its first showroom in Milford, Connecticut, later that year. By 2024, the company had 14 independent showrooms on the East Coast and inked a deal to have Wren Kitchens studios inside select Home Depot locations.

Despite an ambitious launch, Wren was struggling in America. A document filed last October with Companies House, the U.K.’s official company registrar, shows that the brand’s U.S. operations were declining year over year, bringing in roughly $19 million in revenue in 2025 versus $27 million in 2024. (Wren’s Chapter 7 filings show assets and liabilities of between $100 million and $500 million each.)

The shutdown evidently caught both Wren’s employees and its partners off guard. A class action lawsuit by former employees has been filed, alleging that the company violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires companies with more than 100 full-time employees to file a 60-day notice informing staff and government officials of upcoming layoffs. And in a statement to USA Today, a Home Depot representative said that they had no prior knowledge that Wren was planning to close.

Stories of customers left in limbo, some of them with demolition already underway, are already surfacing, with one Connecticut woman, Melissa Dethlefsen, saying that she’d paid Wren $23,000 for cabinets and countertops that were meant to be delivered this week. Wren’s site announces their closure and directs customers to an inquiry form if they “require assistance,” but customers allege that they’ve received no communication from the brand.

Dethlefsen says that she was able to get in contact with a U.K. representative for Wren. “He said that they had been told to be prepared for phone calls from the United States, not to speak to anybody from the press, and to just take our information. And he was like; ‘I don’t know what to tell you.’”