Westford Tech Company Moves HQ To Texas

WESTFORD, MA —A tech company with more than 2,200 employees based in Westford, began to relocate its corporate headquarters to Texas in December, according to a regulatory filing.

Ribbon Communications Inc., which provides products for the telecommunications industry, finished moving its headquarters to Plano, Texas earlier this year from 4 Technology Park in Westford, which was once known as Sonus, according to the company.

Its Plano operations include sales, marketing, research and development, customer support, general and administrative efforts, a filing shows. The move comes after the company initiated a 2019 plan to consolidate and reduce the number of facilities across the country.

The company's website now lists the Texas location as its headquarters, and still lists the Westford location as one of its nine U.S. locations.

According to the filing, the lease on the 97,500 square foot office in Westford isn't due to expire until August 2028. The company listed corporate activities, engineering/development, sales and customer support there, and noted that engineering/development, customer support and general and administrative sales moved to a 100,300 square foot building in Plano, Texas, where the lease is set to expire in 2022. The company has plans to move its Headquarters to North Dallas.

"We have recorded restructuring and related expense to streamline operations and reduce operating costs by closing and consolidating certain facilities and reducing our worldwide workforce," the company said in a news release. "We believe that excluding restructuring and related expense facilitates the comparison of our financial results to our historical operating results and to other companies in our industry, as there are no future revenue streams or other benefits associated with these costs."