Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
(By Kirsten Valle, kvalle@charlotteobserver.com) After almost two years of treading water through the worst recession in decades, there's good news for some cash-strapped employees: Raises are returning. Companies around the Charlotte region slashed pay and eliminated merit increases last year as the economy chipped away at their bottom lines, leaving even the employees lucky enough to...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
(By Kirsten Valle, kvalle@charlotteobserver.com) Within a week of posting two job openings recently, The Steritech Group Inc. collected more than 200 resumes - about double the response of years past. In November, the Charlotte food-safety and quality-assurance company hired a second recruiter to keep pace with its growth and deepening pool of applicants. And today, those recruiters say...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
(By Kirsten Valle, kvalle@charlotteobserver.com) The Charlotte region is emerging from the recession, but its standards of growth, living and doing business are shifting, business owners, city officials and economists said Wednesday. The leaders met over breakfast at Duke Energy uptown to talk about the economy and hear the results of a fourth-quarter survey of 166 businesses from across...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/26/2010
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
(By Kirsten Valle, kvalle@charlotteobserver.com) Local companies added more than 15,500 jobs in Mecklenburg County last year, a new Charlotte Chamber report shows, though the tally does not reflect the region's significant job losses. The report, which focused on job creation in 2009, showed that 1,029 new and expanding firms generated 15,542 jobs. That job count is up 28 percent from...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
(By Kirsten Valle and Steve Lyttle, kvalle@charlotteobserver.com) A Charlotte company that helps develop batteries for electric cars announced plans Wednesday to bring nearly 300 jobs to Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties. Celgard LLC, one of the largest suppliers to the battery industry, will invest $91 million to expand its Charlotte facility and build a new manufacturing plant in Concord....
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/20/2010
(By Kirsten Valle and Bruce Henderson, kvalle@charlotteobserver.com and bhenderson@charlotteobserver.com) Environmental officials are investigating a fuel leak that sparked a fire early Monday in northwest Charlotte. The blaze started around midnight at Kinder Morgan, a pipeline transportation and energy company that stores products such as natural gas and crude oil, off Freedom Drive...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/19/2010
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/19/2010
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/19/2010
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Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 01/06/2010
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