Labor Statistics
Long Island Region, July 2009
Firm Expansions and Contractions
Business Expansions
| Company | County | # Jobs | Article Date | Comments | |||
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| Comtech Telecommunications | Suffolk | 07-03-2009 | A subsidiary of Melville (Suffolk County)-based Comtech Telecommunications Corp. received $11.1 million contract from the U.S. Army to supply satellite network bandwidth and provide installation, training and technical support services. (Newsday, July 3, 2009) | ||||
| Globecomm Systems Inc. | Suffolk | 07-24-2009 | Globecomm Systems Inc, a satellite communications company in Hauppauge (Suffolk County) received a $5.7 million contract from a major media and entertainment company in Asia (customer not named) and anticipates completion of the project by the third quarter of 2010. The company also announced it received a contract modification adding $3.6 million to a $10 million contract with an undisclosed global customer to sell and service computers. (Newsday, July 22-24, 2009) | ||||
| Leviton Manufacturing Co. | Suffolk | 07-21-2009 | International electronics manufacturer, Leviton, Inc., has moved into its new headquarters in the 110-corrider in Melville (Suffolk) from Little Neck (Queens), bringing 400 jobs to the area. The move took place July 21, 2009. (LI Business News, July 21, 2009) | ||||
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Run Date: 08-21-2009
Business Contractions
| Company | County | # Jobs | Article Date | Comments | |||
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| Americorp | Nassau | 35 | 07-17-2009 | Americorp Inc., a Woodbury (Nassau)-based credit negotiation service, laid off 35 of its 100 employees on July 15 due to a lack of work. The company lost an important client, the Allegra law firm, without notice and expects no future business with that firm. (WARN notice; July 17, 2009) | |||
| HGA Quest | Nassau | 127 | 07-07-2009 | Garden City (Nassau County)-based provider of retail merchandising services, HGA Quest, Inc. on July 7 announced plans to lay off 127 of its 160-person workforce on September 16, 2009. The company works primarily with big box stores and recently lost its contract with Home Depot. (WARN Notice, July 7, 2009) | |||
| MetLife Insurance Co. | Suffolk | 200(Est.) | 07-30-2009 | Life insurer MetLife said it will relocate about 200 information-technology jobs from its Hauppauge (Suffolk County) office to a facility in Long Island City (Queens County) by the fall. Most of the Hauppauge employees will be going to Long Island City, according to the company. (Newsday, July 30, 2009) | |||
| OSI Pharmaceuticals | Suffolk | 200(Est.) | 07-08-2009 | Melville and Farmingdale (both Suffolk)-based OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc., Long Island’s largest pharmaceutical laboratory, announced plans to leave the Island and moving to Ardsley (Westchester County). The company has 350 U.S. employees, including 200 on Long Island. OSI wants to consolidate its U.S operations onto a single campus. The company says all the employees - many of them quite well paid - will be offered positions in Ardsley. (Newsday – July 8, 2009) | |||
| Raytel Cardiac Services, Inc. | Nassau | 150 | 07-30-2009 | Lake Success (Nassau County)-based healthcare monitoring company Raytel Cardiac Services, Inc. announced plans to close by May 1, 2010. The first layoff - of 58 employees - will take place on October 31, 2009. As of the date of this notice, the company employed a total of 150 people. (WARN Notice, July 30, 2009) | |||
| USM Transfield Services Group | Suffolk | 88 | 07-15-2009 | Ronkonkoma (Suffolk County)-based janitorial service provider USM Transfield Services Group (also known at one time as both Tower Cleaning Systems and Whelans International) announced plans to permanently close its Ronkonkoma facility. 88 employees will be laid off between October 13th through October 26, 2009. (WARN notice, July 15, 2009) | |||
| World Alliance Financial Group | Suffolk | 157 | 07-10-2009 | Melville (Suffolk County)-based reverse mortgage lender World Alliance Financial Corp. (known until January 2008 as “Vertical Lend”) filed a WARN notice on July 10 announcing plans to lay off 157 of the company’s 201 employees on October 5. (WARN Notice, July 10, 2009) | |||
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Run Date: 08-24-2009
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