A Texas-based wholesale beverage alcohol distributor announced it could lay off 318 employees at its facility in Jessup, according to a notice filed Thursday with the state.

Republic National Distributing Company has filed layoff notices in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and nine other states as part of a potential acquisition by fellow food and beverage distributor, Reyes Holdings LLC.

Nadia Mármol, a spokesperson with Republic National Distributing Company, acknowledged the nationwide conditional layoff notices in an email Friday.

The transaction could “close as early as the end of May,” she said. The notice has an effective date of June 21.

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Reyes Holdings, based in Illinois, is expected to purchase certain assets from Republic National Distributing Company, including its facilities in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C., according to a letter attached to its layoffs notice in Florida.

Reyes Holdings has more than 36,000 employees and over 200 facilities in 48 states. It services popular companies like McDonald’s, Chipotle, Coca-Cola and Barefoot Wines.

Laurel Slick, vice president of corporate affairs of Reyes Holdings, said in an email Friday that the layoff notices were standard practice in acquisitions and that they do not reflect the company’s plans.

Reyes Holdings “will be welcoming many new employees who will bring local knowledge, customer and supplier relationships, and spirits and wine expertise,” she wrote in the email.

In the letter filed with the Florida notice, attributed to Camille Davis, director of human resources at Republic National Distributing Company, Reyes Holdings “intends to extend offers of employment to many of the Company’s employees,” including certain corporate employees, “to provide transition services.”

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But the letter noted that “there is no guarantee that Reyes will provide employees with an offer of employment as discussions remain ongoing, and it is not yet known who will be needed to continue employment with the company.”

While this is true, “there are no immediate changes to current roles and operations,” Mármol’s email reads.

The layoffs would impact 320 workers in Colorado, 451 in South Carolina, 211 in Arizona, 630 in California and over 1,000 in Florida, according to filings and reports from other news outlets.

Republic National Distributing Company has roots stretching back as far as 1888, according to its website.

The company launched a $10 million expansion plan for its Jessup operations in 2009, according to reports from the Baltimore Business Journal at the time. The plan included hiring 60 operations and sales employees, increasing its workforce at the location to 460, and expanding from about 200,000 square feet to more than 400,000.

It announced a CEO appointment in December and that it had secured additional financing in January.