A California-based bottled water company plans to open a new plant north of Charlotte and create 66 jobs during the next three years.
Niagara Bottling will receive a state grant worth up to $200,000 if it meets hiring and investment goals, Gov. Bev Perdue's office announced today.
The factory in Mooresville, about 150 miles west of Raleigh, will be the 10th plant nationwide for Niagara, founded in 1963. The factory will supply bottled water to grocers and other customers in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The average annual wage for the new jobs will be $39,447. That's higher than the Iredell County average of $36,348.
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Wed, 06/22/2011 - 23:18 — gfp064You're correct. Those 66 jobs that will be created between now and 2014 paying $39K/yr will not help us here in the Triangle at all.
This story has almost zero relevance to us.
The reason why the Raleigh "newspaper" is reporting it is because of corporate takeovers of the major Raleigh and Charlotte newspapers several years ago.
Sadly, the Charlotte & Raleigh newspapers are no longer "locally owned". McClatchy is the corporate giant that now controls what stories we get to read. ...and what is censored and controlled.
They are trying [struggling?] to fill space on its websites with stories that it thinks it's readers might like. [American Idol, Brittany Spears, etc. ad nausuem]
They're ALL about corporate profits. Period.
And that, my friend, is why you are reading a totally meaningless story about low-paid jobs being created in a small town 150 miles west of here.
Anyone care to explain what possible relevance this has to we
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 19:10 — Platowasrightwho live in Raleigh>?