Governor Bob McDonnell and Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, who serves as Virginia’s Chief Jobs Creation Officer, issued the following joint statement this afternoon regarding news that Stanley Furniture will lay off 530 workers currently employed at their Henry County plant…
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From drawing board to Tuesday’s groundbreaking, Alpha Natural Resources’ new $21 million corporate headquarters already has grown by more than 20 percent. It has been that kind of meteoric rise for the nation’s third-largest coal company, which formed just eight years ago. On a bluff overlooking Sugar Hollow Park on Tuesday, state and local officials joined about 200 company employees to celebrate the start of site work for the 130,000-square-foot, five-story building. Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield recounted some of that growth during the ceremony.
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STANLEYTOWN – It’s another blow for the Martinsville-Henry County area.
Stanley Furniture announced Wednesday that it expects to lay off 530 people at its plant in Henry County as part of a restructuring plan.
The company plans to move the majority of the manufacturing of its adult furniture line from Stanleytown to several offshore vendors. Workers heard …
Though the economy is only gradually turning around, Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling said the state is doing everything it can in preparation to “grow business” when things get better.
Bolling, who chairs Gov. Bob McDonnell’s newly created Virginia Economic Development and Jobs Creation Commission, said the legislature recently allotted roughly $50 million to invest in …
Gov. Bob McDonnell told the first meeting of his Economic Development and Jobs Creation Commission yesterday that he wants the commission to make recommendations to him by Oct. 16.
Those recommendations will form the basis of a legislative agenda he will propose to the 2011 session of the General Assembly, he said.
Jobs creation “is the top …
