Spotlight New Mexico—employment changes across the state

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2004—January
Text Box: Albuquerque- About 100 to 150 people will be needed to staff the new CarMax auto retail center when it opens next year. Fiore Industries, an Albuquerque Defense Contractor, has been awarded a U.S. Army contract to design weapons countermeasures to evade enemy fire. The contract may be renewed for up to 15 years and could potentially be worth about $33 million. Fiore will perform most of the development work at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range. Fiore currently had about 100 employees and expects that the new contract work will add several new jobs. Ktech Corporation, major supplier of technical services to Sandia National Laboratories, has moved into two new buildings at the Sandia Park Research park. The move allows the company to consolidate seven of its operations into a single locations. The company has added about 30 employees this year and plans to add about 125 more within the next five years. Text Box: Text Box: Roswell- The recently closed Nova Bus Manufacturing plan has been sold to Millennium Transit Services LLC, which plans to reopen the factory, 250 workers over the next 12 Text Box: Clovis- If groundbreaking for the Southwest Cheese Plant processing facility goes forward as hoped in January 2004, cheese production could begin in September 2005. An estimated 500 to 700 workers will be needed for construction of the facility. The plant will be staffed with about Text Box: Las Cruces-New Mexico's first Ashley Furniture HomeStore opened in Las Cruces., and employs about 50 people. Text Box: Santa Teresa- Construction is underway to add 35,000 square feet to the operations and warehouse space of Sterigenics, and the company plans to add five jobs. Text Box: Silver City- Verifying Electronic Transactions Online, an Albuquerque based company, announced that it is acquiring the lease on the building formerly occupied by Stream International. VETO's news releases said that they would initially employ 220 people to verify credit card purchase and plan to grow to 303 employees by mid-2004. Text Box: Santa Fe- Vitamin Cottage has opened a new store that features organic products, and has a staff of about 16 workers. About 170 workers will be needed to staff Santa Fe's new Olive Garden Restaurant.

Employment Stats

Locale

Employment

Change

NM

93.7%

 

Albuquerque

94.2%

 

Santa Fe

96.6%

 

Las Cruces

92.4%