Tyler Dukes

  State leaders are keeping mum about international reports that Volvo is hunting for a new manufacturing site in a handful of southern states, including North Carolina. But Gov. Pat McCrory disclosed development of a new jobs recruitment plan on Thursday at the opening of the headquarters for the private-public Economic Development Partnership. According to the Financial Times, the luxury car brand is looking to join a number of other companies with factories in the Southeast, including BMW in South Carolina and Mercedes in Alabama. Just this month, Mercedes announced it would move its headquarters from New Jersey to...

North Carolina’s newly minted public-private partnership set up to create jobs across the state revealed its five major donors last week, among them Duke Energy and software firm Red Hat as well as Lenovo, the world’s No. 1 PC manufacturer. Legislation passed by the General Assembly this summer required the nonprofit Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina to raise at least $250,000 in private funds before receiving state money. Establishing the partnership was a central part of Gov. Pat McCrory’s plan to change the way state attracts business growth. In a press release Friday afternoon, the group announced it...