Business Facilities - December 2007 - (Page 13)

Homegrown Tech Company Surveys the Field, Chooses NC Again GDevices, a major player in manufacturing radio frequency integrated circuits for global wireless communications industries, will add 350 jobs during the next four years and invest $118 million to expand its Greensboro, NC campus. The company also indicated in its September announcement that it will open a smaller facility in Mooresville, NC. RF Micro considered several sites, including expanding a plant it owns in China, before deciding to grow in North Carolina. The company, founded in Greensboro in 1991 as a small semiconductor design shop, reported revenue of $1.02 billion for its 2007 fiscal year, which ended in March. Its $103 million expansion in Greensboro will create 300 new jobs and bring RF Micro Devices’ total Guilford County employment to more than 2,200 workers. The Mooresville facility will cost about $15 million and will employ 50 workers. The majority of the new jobs will be skilled manufacturing positions paying an average of more than $42,000 a year plus benefits. RF Micro received a JDIG award with a maximum benefit of $4.25 million if the company creates all of the required jobs and sustains them for 11 years. reensboro, NC-based RF Micro OPPORTUNITIES IN SALISBURY-ROWAN ARE SO WIDE-OPEN, WE KNOW YOU’LL DIG IT. offers plenty of room to grow. With close proximity to vibrant major markets and immediate access to Interstates 85, 77 and 40, the location is choice for expanding of land are available to support any size facility, and the area offers some of the Salisbury-Rowan, NC Is AvailableForWork.You betcha,Salisbury-Rowan,NC or relocating businesses. Several certified industrial sites and expansive tracts lowest land and construction costs in the Southeast. Benefits include savings on labor, Ready to dig in? We’re available to make it work. :: Location taxes, real estate, utilities and transportation costs, and excellent business resources. Available Assets: :: Workforce, Sites & Infrastructure :: Pro-Business Climate :: Quality of Life PHOTO CREDIT: RFMD ® www.RowanWorks.com 888-ROWAN-WORKS 888-769-2696 #1408 at www.BusinessFacilities.com http://www.RowanWorks.com http://www.RowanWorks.com http://www.BusinessFacilities.com

Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Business Facilities - December 2007

Business Facilities - December 2007 Contents First Word Snapshots Metro Spotlight: Albuquerque, New Mexico Corporate Moves: North Carolina 2007 Ecomonic Development Deal of the Year Awards State of the Year Seeking Supply Chain Solutions Mississippi Means Business Corporate Moves: South Carolina Biomedical Momentum in Florida's High Tech Corridor Trends in Offshoring Metro Spotlight: Stillwater, OK Metro Spotlight: Atlanta, GA Advertiser Information 2007 Salary Survey

Business Facilities - December 2007

For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.