Note to readers: All 30,000 gift cards are gone. And to address some of the comments: The giveaway was for actual gift cards. There is a separate offer from American Express offering a $25 credit to customers.
Don't forget: At 1 p.m. (Eastern Time) today, drop everything and head over to the FedEx Facebook page to snare a FREE $25 American Express gift card.
The shipping company is giving away 30,000 of them today.
Here's a Facebook offer not be missed.
On Tuesday, Nov. 1, FedEx will be giving away 30,000 American Express gift cards, each one loaded with $25.
Last week, we told you about Jamie Rohrbauck, owner of Cary-based home cleaning business Dust and Mop, who is now one step closer to becoming a winner of the American Express M3 1000 competition.
The contest is the latest iteration of the AmEx Make Mine a Million $ Business competition and is aimed at helping female entrepreneurs build their businesses. Last week, Rohrbauck traveled to Colorado and gave her business pitch. She was selected as one of 61 winners who will now move on to phase II of the contest. AmEx will pick 50 women in May to participate in the M3 1000 program, through which they will receive coaching, financial analysis and other educational resources.
American Express plans to close a customer service center in Greensboro, cutting hundreds of jobs and dealing a blow to the Triad's economy.
The credit card company announced this morning that work handled from the Greensboro facility will be shifted to other locations in the U.S. The cost-cutting effort also will transfer some work from a service center in Madrid to sites in the U.K. and Australia.
In an e-mail to community leaders, American Express stated it has about 1,900 employees in Greensboro, the Greensboro News & Record reports. The company estimates that 400 employees will remain in North Carolina, working at home or virtually, after the service center closes. The other employees will be offered jobs at one of the company's other U.S. facilities.
American Express, which has determined that Greensboro is the best location for the financial services firm's new data center, will not pursue any local or state incentives as part of the project.
Dan Lynch, president of the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance, said in an e-mail that he could provide no other details about the project other than that American Express' site analysis had concluded that Greensboro is the best location and that incentives weren't on the table.
American Express officials declined to comment, but late yesterday Gov. Beverly Perdue issued a statement praising the company's decision.
"I spoke recently to the American Express CEO, during the company’s final decision-making process, and emphasized North Carolina’s outstanding workforce and business-friendly environment," Perdue's statement said. "We clearly made a compelling case to land this important project, bolstering our already-strong reputation as an excellent location for data centers, which bring sustainable jobs and significant investment.
American Express has about 2,000 employees in the state and operates a service center in Greensboro.
