Radio station owner Clear Channel Communications Inc. eliminated more than 20 jobs at its five Charlotte stations last week as part of a companywide reaction to slumping advertising sales.
Morgan Bohannon, regional vice president for Clear Channel’s Charlotte properties, defers all comment to the company’s San Antonio headquarters. A spokesman there e-mailed a copy of Clear [...]
January 28, 2009
Clear Channel eliminates Charlotte jobs
January 28, 2009
ScentAir inks distribution deal
ScentAir Technologies Inc. has signed a multiyear distribution agreement with DMX Inc. of Austin, Texas.
Under the agreement, ScentAir will provide DMX with its complete line of commercial fragrance systems for private-label distribution.
DMX will use ScentAir’s product line to augment its product offering. In return, ScentAir gains a global distribution channel into previously untapped markets.
Financial terms [...]
January 28, 2009
General Dynamics unit gets $12M contract
The U.S. government has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products a $12 million contract to produce the MK47 Striker40 Weapon System.
The lightweight grenade launcher has a fire-control system capable of firing ammunition that can be programmed to detonate, as well as conventional grenades.
Charlotte-based General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products makes weapons systems, biological- and [...]
January 28, 2009
Rowan trucking company to lay off 100
Auto Truck Transport of Rowan County will begin laying off some 100 employees in mid-March, according to a filing with the N.C. Department of Commerce.
More than 50 shop employees and drivers, or 33 percent of the company’s work force, will lose their jobs March 16.
The company, which transports trucks and truck chassis, cites Daimler Trucks [...]
January 28, 2009
Despite poor economy, some businesses opening in Knoxville
Too often, another business in Knoxville is making cuts or closing. But even during the recession, some have opened their doors instead.
One example is Café 4, a restaurant and concert hall that recently opened in Market Square.
“There has been a lot of interest in the project for a while, a lot of people involved in [...]
January 28, 2009
Paris plant laying off 2/3 of work force
Nobel Automotive of Paris, which makes hoses and tubing for cars, is laying off two-thirds of its work force.
Plant officials told The Paris Post-Intelligencer that 44 of its 66 employees will be laid off within the next 60 days because of the failing economy.
Twenty-two other employees who had previously been temporarily laid off will now [...]
January 28, 2009
Chainsaw maker closing Tenn. plant, cutting 100 jobs
Chainsaw and yard care product maker Blount International Inc. said on Monday it will permanently close its plant in Milan, Tenn., by the end of June, eliminating nearly 100 jobs.
The company said the factory is one of seven producing for its outdoor products segment, and accounted for about five percent of the segment’s production [...]
January 28, 2009
Local eBay stores benefit from economic downturn
Despite nationwide sales being down over the holidays more than 30 percent, local iSold It stores are seeing a business boom.
Jay Busé is like many Americans looking to cash in of stuff they already have.
“My wife has some china that she’s had for over 50 years. It is just something that we had [...]
January 28, 2009
Locally made mead finds an eager audience
Jason and Jennifer Russ moved here just over a year ago with one goal: to start a meadery.
The couple, that is to say, planned to make and sell mead, an alcoholic beverage whose primary ingredient is fermented honey.
They bought a house on 8 acres, built the two-room Fox Hill Meadery next door and started producing [...]
January 28, 2009
Beacon site prepped for future development
The 42-acre former Beacon Manufacturing site is getting a thorough cleaning in anticipation of possible development.
The massive blanket manufacturing plant closed in 2002 and burned nearly to the ground in a spectacular fire in September 2003. Contractors removed about 57,000 tons of debris from the site after the fire, and in March 2005 the investment [...]
