Henderson, Kentucky’s Brenntag Mid-South is expanding its facility, adding up to 15 to its 200-strong workforce. The $1.6 million expansion will be complete by the end of the year, and hiring will begin in early 2010. Brenntag provides chemical distribution, logistics and custom chemical services. Share This Story:
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, July 20, 2009
Continental Teves will hire 338 people in Fletcher, North Carolina over the next five years. The company will invest $30 million into its Fletcher plant, which manufactures brake systems and components. Continental will get a state grant equal to 60% of the state personal income tax withholdings derived from the creation of the new jobs. The new [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 17, 2009
New York’s Yale Industrial Products will invest $3 million in its Wadesboro, North Carolina plant, creating 65 new jobs. The company will get a $116,000 state grant through the One North Carolina Fund. The new jobs will pay an average $37,000 a year, significantly higher than the Anson County average wage of $28,000. Yale Industrial Products is a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Paul Reed Smith Guitars will lay off 30 employees, go to a four-day manufacturing week, and end its nighttime manufacturing shift. After the cuts, the firm will employ 250. PRS recently completed expanding its Maryland factory to produce acoustic guitars and amplifiers. It got a $10 million bond from the Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development. [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Baldor Electric will expand its Weaverville, North Carolina plant, creating 32 jobs. The firm has been offered $64,000 in One North Carolina Fund incentives, and will invest $4.8 million itself into the expansion. The jobs will pay an average of $42,000 per year. Fort Smith, Arkansas-based Baldor Electric Company markets, designs, and manufactures industrial electric motors, mechanical [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
Kellogg’s is spending $10 million to expand its Augusta, Georgia plant, creating 220 new jobs. The positions will pay $10 to $15 per hour. The plant will produce new cookie products for its Keebler and Kashi brands, and for the Girl Scouts. It currently employs 500 workers. Twenty percent of the new workers will come from a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Ethan Allen Interiors will expand its Maiden, North Carolina upholstery plant, creating 300 new jobs over three years. The furniture manufacturer will replace 150 jobs lost in recent layoffs, and add 152 new positions. The firm received incentives from the One North Carolina Fund. Danbury, Connecticut’s Ethan Allen Global is a North American furniture chain with almost 300 [...]
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