Labor Statistics
Long Island Region, May 2009
Firm Expansions and Contractions
Business Expansions
| Company | County | # Jobs | Article Date | Comments | |||
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| Bank of Smithtown | Suffolk | 05-21-2009 | Unlike some larger banks, Bank of Smithtown (Suffolk County) turned down federal Troubled Asset Relief Program money in January, saying it did not need the cash. In March, it opened its first branch in Manhattan and is contemplating more branches there. The bank also announced plans to open seven new branches on Long Island in the second half of this year. (Newsday, May 21, 2009) | ||||
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | Suffolk | 1000(Est.) | 05-06-2009 | The Obama administration has awarded Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton (Suffolk County) $42 million in federal stimulus money to dismantle the lab’s three reactors. The money will allow the lab to complete in two years work that might otherwise have taken as long as until 2020. (Newsday – May 6, 2009) | |||
| Canon USA | Nassau | 1000(Est.) | 05-10-2009 | Suffolk County and other officials have drafted a new package of incentives worth $100 million to assure completion of an earlier plan for Canon USA to relocate from its Lake Success (Nassau County) headquarters to a new headquarters in Melville (Suffolk County), adding 1,000 new jobs. (Newsday, May 10, 2009) | |||
| Gabreski Airport High-Tech Industrial Park | Suffolk | 1200(Est.) | 05-12-2009 | Suffolk County lawmakers on May 12 approved a 40-year lease of 58 acres at Gabreski Airport in Westhampton to Melville (Suffolk County)-based Rechler Equity Partners. Rechler plans to build a “high-tech hub”, complete with hotel and movie studio, at the airport, that would be an incubator for alternative energy, homeland security and wireless communication projects and prospectively generate 1,200 jobs. (Newsday, May 12, 2009) | |||
| Sysco Corp. | Suffolk | 300(Est.) | 05-07-2009 | Sysco Corp, the nation’s largest food service company (and supplier of food for restaurants and food-service facilities), acquired a 526,000 square foot building in Central Islip (Suffolk County) for $30 million. The company plans to incorporate locally as Sysco Food Services of Long Island, to renovate a building formerly used by C&S Wholesale Grocers in Central Islip and to create 300 new jobs. (LI Business News, May 7, 2009) | |||
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Business Contractions
| Company | County | # Jobs | Article Date | Comments | |||
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| Aircraft Parts Corp. | Suffolk | 110 | 05-04-2009 | Aircraft Parts Corporation announced that it will close its Holtsville (Suffolk County) factory on July 31, 2009. 110 employees will lose their jobs. (WARN Notice, May 4, 2009) | |||
| Magazine Distributors, Inc. | Suffolk | 290 | 05-14-2009 | Between May 1 and May 14 E. Farmingdale (Suffolk County)-based Magazine Distributors Inc. closed its plant and laid off 290 employees. (WARN Notice, January 28, 2009) | |||
| Mannix Exterior Wall Systems Inc. | Suffolk | 121 | 05-18-2009 | Brentwood (Suffolk County)-based manufacturer of architectural aluminum windows and doors, Mannix Exterior Wall Systems Inc. said that without an increase in orders the firm will need to lay off up to 121 employees after August 10, 2009. (WARN Notice, May 18, 2009) | |||
| ProfitCenter Software Inc. | Nassau | 56 | 05-29-2009 | The ProfitCenter Software Division of Systemax, Inc. has said that it will close its facility in Uniondale (Nassau) on August 27, 2009 and lay off 36 of the 56 employees. Twenty other workers will move to the Systemax's Port Washington (Nassau) headquarters. (WARN Notice, May 29, 2009) | |||
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