This morning President Barack Obama is expected to sign the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) bill that passed through Congress just yesterday. The bill passed the Senate 68-29 in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday. It includes about $18 billion in tax breaks and extends highway and mass transit programs through 2010. $20 billion will [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 15, 2010
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has outlined a plan to create as many as 40,000 jobs in the state over the next three years. The governor’s 10-point plan includes tax incentives, streamlined permitting procedures and energy savings, according to a press release. It is expected to cost about $15 million and be paid through mid-2011. A business [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
GlobalWatt, a solar panel manufacturer, has signed a lease in Saginaw, Michigan, and is prepared to start hiring up to 500 employees as early as first quarter 2010. The company is investing $177 million into the production line and will receive a $14 million dollar tax incentive project from the state. The city [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Kemper Foods is expanding its facility in New Albany, Indiana, and bringing in 350 new jobs between now and 2012. The city is providing a loan in return for which Kemper will bring in 50 new employees this year and begin the expansion. Additional incentives will kick in as more jobs are added. Share [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Premier Inc., a health care purchasing and data company, is moving its headquarters from San Diego to Charlotte and bringing 300 jobs with it. 750 of the company’s 1250 employees are already working in Charlotte, which is one of the reasons given for the transition. The company has not provided any [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Princeton, New Jersey’s Covance is getting tax-incentives from Indiana’s Hancock County, to create 315 jobs at its Greenfield Laboratories. The jobs will pay an average annual salary of $60,000, plus benefits. The lab currently employs 300 people. Covance, formerly Corning Incorporated, is a contract research organization providing drug development and animal testing services. Share This Story:
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
A General Electric plant in Bloomington, Indiana will not close down as feared. But some of the plant’s 680 employees will lose their jobs. Federal tax credits will keep the facility open, to manufacture energy-efficient refrigerators. The plant will stay open at least into 2010. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 2249, which represents the employees, is [...]
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...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 [...]
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