Southwest Power Pool has announced plans to build a new corporate headquarters at a cost of $62-million that will add 200 new jobs in Little Rock, Ark. The additions will bring SPP’s total employment to more than 600 people with total compensation close to $75 million. Southwest Power Pool is an energy company that covers a geographic [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
First Data will relocate its headquarters back to Atlanta, bringing 250 jobs to the city over three years. The firm has been officially based in Greenwood Village, Colorado — but most operations have been in Atlanta, where the company employs 750. Founded in 1969, First Data Corporation is a payment processing company and a provider of electronic [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 7, 2009
Apparel manufacturer Fruit of the Loom will relocate 270 jobs from Alexander City and Monroeville, Alabama, to the firm’s Bowling Green, Kentucky headquarters. The company will lay off 58 workers at its Russel plant in Monroeville, and 218 at its Vanity Fair plant in Alexander City. The transition will be complete by December. Some employees will [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Time Warner Cable has hired new 150 employees for its new Morrisville, North Carolina regional headquarters, and plans to add 50 more. The new jobs will be telephone and direct sales positions, paying around $30K a year, plus commissions. The company is also hiring service technicians. The Morrisville offices now house 1,500 workers. Time Warner has also spent [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 3, 2009
Simplex Healthcare is expanding in Nashville, Tennessee, creating 300 new jobs over two years. The firm is expanding both its headquarters and operations center. Simplex Healthcare provides health care products to patients with diabetes. Founded in 2007, the firm has two locations, in Brentwood and in Franklin. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
Cisco Systems will lay off 600 to 700 employees at its headquarters in San Jose, California headquarters. The firm warned in February that 2,000 jobs could be cut this year. Cisco Systems is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenues of $39 billion as of 2008. It designs and sells networking and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The State of Missouri is giving Danbury, Connecticut’s Praxair $92,913 in Enhanced Enterprise Zone tax credits to upgrade its Kansas City plant, creating three jobs. The plant supplies oxygen, nitrogen and argon to area companies. It currently employs 22 people. Praxair is the largest industrial gases company in the Americas, and one of the largest worldwide. The [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Bayport, Minnesota’s Andersen is cutting 250 management and office staff positions. More than half the cuts target the corporate headquarters. Some of the jobs will be vacated through an early-retirement program, and others are already vacant. Andersen also closed its plant in Fall River, Massachusetts, putting 287 workers on the street. Andersen Corporation is a major manufacturer of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
Orange County, California’s St. Joseph Health System is cutting 159 positions by mid-September. The cuts will affect the system’s three hospitals — St. Joseph Hospital-Orange, St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, and Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo — plus the headquarters in Orange. Those laid off will get severance pay, benefit assistance and continuation, and outplacement assistance. St. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 7, 2009
California’s Tony’s Fine Foods is expanding its Sacramento headquarters, spending $15 million and creating 75 new jobs. The firm is working with the city’s Economic Development Department to get the necessary permits for the new facility. Sacramento’s BTV Development is managing the construction project. Founded 75 years ago, Tony’s Fine Foods supplies meat, baked goods, cheese and [...]
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