Press Releases

State Grant Helps PreGel AMERICA Inc. Expand in Concord

Company to invest more than $85 million in Kinston facility

Company will keep 58 other jobs in North Carolina

N.C. launches first mobile app for site location professionals.

State Grant Helps CMS Food Solutions, Inc. Open in Leland

Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that Aseptia Inc., a processor of fruits and vegetables, will locate a state-of-the art manufacturing facility in Montgomery County. The company, doing business as Wright Foods, plans to create 75 jobs and invest $10.15 million during the next three years in Troy.

Gov. Perdue today honored nine North Carolina communities with the inaugural Governor’s Innovative Small Business Community Award for their creative and innovative ways to help small businesses bring jobs to North Carolina.

-- N.C. Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco today announced Lynn Holmes as the department’s new assistant secretary for the division of employment security. The appointment takes effect on Nov. 1 when the N.C. Employment Security Commission merges with the N.C. Department of Commerce.