The North Carolina State Board of Education recognized three public schools for exemplary leadership and instruction in STEM education, including Meadowview Magnet Middle School in Surry County and Yadkin Valley Regional Career Academy in Davidson… Read more »
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Inmates to Entrepreneurs launches in Greensboro
Inmates to Entrepreneurs, a Raleigh-based nonprofit, that offers an eight-week course that teaches ex-convicts how to start their own business launched in Greensboro at The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship in early September. People coming out… Read more »
National General Insurance expands in Winston-Salem
National General Insurance, a property and casualty insurance company, will expand its operations in Winston-Salem to create 626 new jobs and invest $12.2 million by the end of 2022. The company, formerly the GMAC Insurance… Read more »
Publix to create 1,000 jobs in Greensboro
Florida-based Publix Super Markets will build a $400 million distribution center in Greensboro and create more than 1,000 jobs with an average salary of $44,000. The 1.8 million sq ft distribution center will be the… Read more »
FedEx Express hiring 400 new employees
The FedEx Express will hire 400 new employees, doubling the size of its workforce at the company’s Mid-Atlantic Air Hub at the Piedmont Triad International Airport. FedEx Express opened its 1 million-square-foot, $228 million facility… Read more »
Guilford Apprenticeship Partners holds signing day event
The Guilford Apprenticeship Partners (GAP) extended apprenticeships to 40 high school students and recent graduates during a signing day ceremony at Guilford Technical Community College in August. Entering its third year, the 2018 GAP apprentice… Read more »
Samet to build two 100,000+ spec buildings
Samet Corp. plans to build two spec buildings on Campground Road, near I-85 and I-73 in South Greensboro. Samet also owns an adjacent tract of about 10 acres that could be developed at a later… Read more »
Cook Medical acquires 850,000 sq ft in Whitaker Park
Cook Medical will move its Winston-Salem operations to the former Reynolds cigarette manufacturing plant, Whitaker Park. Cook Medical, a medical-device manufacturer with 650 employees will move into about half of the facility 1.7 million sq… Read more »
China-based Markor International Furniture Co. invests in the Triad
Markor International Furniture Co., will invest $20 million to build a 147,200 sq ft showroom in High Point for its subsidiaries A.R.T. Furniture and Caracole. A.R.T. Furniture recently opened a 100,000 sq ft distribution center… Read more »
Two companies expand in Randolph County
Ernie Green Industries, a Seagrove company that produces plastic injection molding products and medical devices, will add 12 new jobs and invest $240,000 in a new clean room for medical devices production. Ferree Trailers, which… Read more »