Fortune Magazine’s annual list of best companies to work for hits newsstands February 8 and software company SAS tops the list. According to Fortune SAS offers fantastic benefits and a low turnover rate. Benefits include an on site 66,000 square foot recreation center that houses a gymnasium, weight room, billiards hall, sauna, hair salon, manicurist, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Reser’s Fine Foods, a national producer of prepared foods, will create 500 new jobs through the expansion of its processing plant in North Carolina. The first phase of the expansion will be funded through a $1 million grant from the state in addition to a $15 million investment from the company, according to the Associated Press. “We [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Convergys Corp. plans to create 120 jobs within the next two months. These jobs will mainly be based in the company’s Hickory, North Carolina call center. 500 employees currently work at the facility. New employees will provide customer service for an unnamed telecommunications client. The average pay for a customer service position is $9.50 per [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Duke Energy is offering voluntary buyouts to most nonunion employees in order to reorganize its corporate staff and save $200 million a year in personnel, travel and real estate costs. No layoffs were planned if the company failed to reach their savings goals according to spokesman Tom Williams. There is no specific number of buyouts [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 22, 2009
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue announced today that Zenta Mortgage Services has decided to expand its center adding 1002 jobs at an average salary of $47,980 per year. The jobs will be phased in over then next five years. Zenta will receive incentives worth $8.6 million if it meets job and investment goals after the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
With help from a grant from the One North Carolina Fund, appliance maker Electrolux is building a new North American headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company expects to create a minimum of 738 new jobs over the next five years as a result of the new facility. The announcement was made today [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Innovative Emergency Management Inc is moving its headquarters from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to North Carolina in return for state tax breaks of up to $9 million. 50 of the 150 jobs at the current headquarters will move, while the remaining employees will have the option to transfer to one of the other offices. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 11, 2009
Volvo is closing a plant in Ashville, North Carolina that manufactures components for final assembly of its cars and trucks. The work will be moved to three other existing factories, two of which are outside the United States. Only the assembly of cabs for motor graders will still be done in the US, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
Chalk another one up to the One North Carolina Fund. Talecris Biotherapeutics, with the help of a $250,000 grant from the state, is expanding its facility in the research triangle and bringing in 259 jobs. The jobs will be filled over a seven year period and the company is eligible for up [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
Palziv, an Israeli foam manufacturing company, is investing nearly $8 million into a North American headquarters and manufacturing facility to be located in Franklin County, North Carolina. 72 jobs, paying an average of $34, 167 plus benefits will be created. The facility, which is being built with help from the One North Carolina [...]
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
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