Appliance, home goods and electronics retailer hhgregg announced today that it will create 100 positions for two new stores opening in Roanoke and Colonial Heights, Virginia. An online application and “assessment” must be submitted through the company’s website to be considered for a position. Sales experience is preferred, but retail experience is not required. Open [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
NTELOS, a telecommunications provider based in Virginia, announced that it was planning to cut an unspecified number of jobs. The job cuts will be primarily in support positions and not in areas the deal directly with customers. Some jobs will be eliminated through early retirement or by not filling vacant positions, and the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
CooperVision will shut down its soft contact lens plant in Norfolk, Virginia, cutting 570 jobs. The work at the plant will be sent to Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, and Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, United Kingdom. No new jobs will be created there. Cooper has cut 685 manufacturing jobs in the past year. CooperVision was founded in 1979, and is the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 10, 2009
The Staunton, Virginia News Leader, a Gannett newspaper, cut five employees this week, part of the parent company’s plant to eliminate 1,400 jobs. In December 2008, the News Leader laid off 10 employees and eliminated 5 vacant positions. In March, it outsourced its printing, eliminating 23 jobs. The paper has also implemented two one-week unpaid furloughs. The [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Orbital Sciences Corporation is breaking ground on a new facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Atlantic, Virginia, which will develop, assemble and test the Taurus II rocket. Two-hundred and fifty people will be hired for construction, and the completed facility will employ 400 high-tech workers. Orbital Sciences expects its liquid fuel Taurus II rocket to launch [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Virginia’s Vangent today opened its new customer service call center in Riverview, Florida. The firm has hired 200 people for the facility, chosen from over 2,000 applicants. The call center answers phones for the federal Medicare program. By the Fall, Vangent expects to have hired another 800 employees. Customer service wages start at $11.43 an hour with benefits, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
Montreal’s Quebecor World will add 30 jobs to its facility in Frederick County, Virginia, with an investment of $35.2 million. The firm will buy two new printing presses to increase production capability at the plant, which currently employs 150. The Virginia Investment Partnership is giving Quebecor $300,000 in incentives. The expansion will be completed later this year. Founded [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 22, 2009
Richmond, Virginia-based packaging manufacturer MeadWestvaco, which closed plants in Virginia and Puerto Rico in March, is eliminating 80 jobs in Germany. The cuts come as the firm reconfigures its home and garden operations. Some work will go to MeadWestvaco’s plant in Wuxi, China. The plant in Hemer, Germany, will continue to make trigger sprayers. In January, the company [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 20, 2009
Bedford, Virginia’s Dominion Chrysler is expanding and hiring, as Chrysler dealerships across the nation are shut down. Dominion was forced to close its Dodge dealership in Salem, Virginia; it moved six employees to Bedford. Chrysler ended its contracts with 800 dealers nationally. Only two Chrysler dealerships remain in the area, and Dominion hopes to take advantage of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia’s SunTrust Banks has signed a 10-year deal with Toronto, Ontario’s Symcor, to handle check & payment processing and statement generation. As a result, SunTrust will lose 1,554 positions; but the Canadian firm will take over 1,500 of the workers. Fifty-four workers will lose their jobs. The layoffs and transfers will affect 5% of SunTrust’s [...]
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