AT&T will launch a technical support center in San Antonio, Texas next year, creating 200 jobs for technical service representatives and managers. The call center will serve customers of AT&T U-verse, the company’s broadband, voice and digital television service. AT&T has formed a partnership with the City of San Antonio and Alamo Colleges, to develop a [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
Deutsche Bank will build a technology development center in Cary, North Carolina, creating 319 jobs. The Cary Town Council will pay $75,000 in cash to DB Global Technology, a newly formed subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Bank. The state is giving the bank a Job Development Investment Grant worth $9.4 million over 11 years. The jobs will pay [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
Dallas, Texas-based Affiliated Computer Services will expand its Port San Antonio facility, hiring an other 300 workers to join the existing 530 employees. The city of San Antonio is giving ACS a $300,000 economic development grant. Founded in 1988, ACS Affiliated Computer Services is a Fortune 500 company that provides information technology services as well as business [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Exide Technologies is getting $34.3 million in federal stimulus funding to launch a new production line in Columbus, Georgia, creating 200 new manufacturing jobs. The workers will produce affordable lead-acid batteries incorporating advanced carbon technology, for industrial and transportation uses. Founded by W.W. Gibbs in 1888 as the Electric Storage Battery Company, Milton, Georgia’s Exide Technologies is [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Omaha, Nebraska-based ConAgra Foods has announced that its Lamb Weston unit will invest $210 million in a sweet potato processing plant in rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, creating up to 500 jobs. The state will contribute up to $37 million, luring the company away from sites in Mississippi and North Carolina. The plant will open in Fall of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 31, 2009
Los Angeles-based Grifols will build a new laboratory in San Marcos, Texas, creating 190 jobs. The firm is getting $500,000 from the Texas Enterprise Fund. The San Marcos facility will feature a plasma testing lab and a fractionation plant, to supplement its California facility that will manufacture medicines derived from human plasma. Barcelona, Spain’s Grifols, SA is a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Goodwill Industries has purchased a failed shopping mall in Augusta, Georgia, to be converted into a Goodwill Career Campus. The move will create 500 jobs. The Development Authority of Richmond County has approved a $22.5 million bond financing inducement resolution for the site. The new facility will include a retail store, also used for training; a jobs [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The State of Ohio is offering tax credits to three Dayton employers, creating more than 80 jobs. Wayne Trail Technologies got a 50% job creation tax credit for a six years, worth $192,500. The firm supports automation for the alternative energy, aerospace, automotive, appliance and HVAC industries. Twenty-seven positions will be created. Advanced Electronic Tracking also received [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
Moraine, Ohio’s CSafe will create 25 local jobs. The Ohio Department of Development has offered $50,000 in grants to help Csafe buy equipment for an expansion. CSafe LLC manufactures, markets and sells container devices, which are used by air freight haulers to ship cargo requiring controlled temperatures. Moraine is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio. The population was [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 20, 2009
Nanotechnology firm NanoSperse has launched in Kettering, Ohio, and intends to add high tech jobs. The firm creates nano products that improve existing materials, for instance by preventing erosion. The applications include military and aerospace products. NanoSperse received $4 million in federal funds for start-up costs. It currently employs seven people, but will expand soon. Kettering’s NanoSperse is [...]
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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