Bob Ehrlich can’t contain his excitement over Northrop Grumman’s selection of a site in Virginia near the Pentagon instead of a site in Maryland for its new corporate headquarters. Right out of the box he issued a statement blaming his successor, followed by a YouTube video, and in recent appearances he can’t finish a sentence without mentioning it. He must think Northrop Grumman’s choice really boosts his re-election bid because he’s been openly talking about transition teams only three weeks after announcing his candidacy for a race he isn’t going to win.
Before he puts his house on the market, he should check his own record. Whether the issue is raising taxes, the largest spending increase in Maryland history, cronyism or corruption, Bob Ehrlich’s term in office contradicts his 2010 campaign rhetoric, and his latest attack fits the pattern. No matter how much Mr. Ehrlich sounds off today, he can’t hide from the fact that when he was governor, a steady stream of businesses located their headquarters elsewhere, downsized, or shut down.....
Va. gets military vehicles factory
General Dynamics picks Possum Point, Va. over APG
August 31, 2003|By Ted Shelsby | Ted Shelsby,SUN STAFF
Harford County lost out to Possum Point, Va., in the competition for one of the biggest economic development plums to come along in nearly a decade - a $100 million-plus plant to build a new amphibious assault vehicle for the Marines. The tiny Northern Virginia community was selected by General Dynamics Corp. on Tuesday as the site for a 450,000-square-foot factory....
Novavax leaving Columbia for Pa.
Biotechnology company is moving headquarters to Philadelphia suburb
Vaccines unit to stay in Md.
August 10, 2004|By William Patalon III | William Patalon III,SUN STAFF
Novavax Inc., one of Maryland's few biotech companies with products on the market, is moving its corporate headquarters to the Philadelphia suburbs, where it hopes to tap a pool of experienced pharmaceutical executives as it extends its reach in the marketplace. Clinching the deal was a state-financed package of loans and grants totaling nearly $1 million, an amount that could easily increase if the Columbia-based company demonstrates an ability to generate new jobs, said the economic development official who was Pennsylvania's point person in persuading Novavax to move its headquarters north of the Mason-Dixon Line....
Broadwing moves HQ to Texas
February 24, 2006|By TRICIA BISHOP | TRICIA BISHOP,SUN REPORTER
As recently as Tuesday, Broadwing Corp. considered Columbia its home, listing its Albert Einstein Drive address on regulatory filings. But it turns out the moving van had already left. The telecommunications business officially uprooted its Howard County headquarters earlier this month and set up shop in Austin, Texas....
Magellan HQ leaving Howard for Connecticut
October 14, 2003|By M. William Salganik | M. William Salganik,SUN STAFF
Magellan Health Services, the mental health insurance giant, told its employees yesterday that it is moving its corporate headquarters from Columbia to Connecticut....Of the 700 people the company employs in Columbia, the company said, fewer than 200 jobs are likely to be affected, at least initially.
SITEL's headquarters here being moved to Omaha, Neb.
May 02, 2003|By Paul Adams | Paul Adams,SUN STAFF
SITEL Corp., which operates telephone customer service centers, said yesterday that it is moving its Baltimore headquarters to Omaha, Neb......
Sparrows Point job cut put at 30%
Almost 1,000 employees could be trimmed under ISG ownership
March 18, 2003|By Gus G. Sentementes | Gus G. Sentementes,SUN STAFF
Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s salaried and hourly work force at Sparrows Point would be trimmed by about 30 percent under the ownership of International Steel Group Inc., the ISG official designated to head the plant said yesterday.....
Allfirst's sale to M&T Bank is completed
204 in Md. get pink slips
Signage won't be changed until July 4 weekend
April 02, 2003|By William Patalon III | William Patalon III,SUN STAFF
Just 14 months removed from a $691.2 million currency-trading scandal, Baltimore-based Allfirst Financial Inc. yesterday became the property of M&T Bank Corp. of Buffalo, N.Y....
Tyson set to shut its plant on Shore
650 to lose jobs in phases, with closure by year's end
April 22, 2003|By Bill Atkinson and Chris Guy | Bill Atkinson and Chris Guy,SUN STAFF
BERLIN - In a blow to Maryland's Eastern Shore, Tyson Foods Inc. disclosed yesterday that it will begin slashing about 650 jobs at its Berlin poultry complex this week and expects to close the plant by the end of the year....
ISG says 489 take buyout at Point
Bethlehem Steel's buyer near halfway point of cuts
May 14, 2003|By Gus G. Sentementes | Gus G. Sentementes,SUN STAFF
Almost 490 union workers at the Sparrows Point steel mill have accepted buyout offers, putting new owner International Steel Group Inc. nearly halfway to its job reduction goal, the plant's general manager said yesterday....
Doner ad agency leaving Baltimore
Local institution coined `Land of Pleasant Living' ad for National beer
May 21, 2003|By June Arney | June Arney,SUN STAFF
Doner, the advertising agency that dubbed Maryland "the Land of Pleasant Living" in a memorable National Bohemian beer commercial and a local institution since 1955, announced yesterday that it will close its doors in Baltimore to consolidate operations in Detroit....
Soundstage to wrap up 44 years of production
June 10, 2003|By June Arney | June Arney,SUN STAFF
After a 44-year run, rich with production work on films including Hairspray, Avalon, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, My Best Friend's Wedding and Runaway Bride, Baltimore's Flite 3 Studios is shutting its doors....
Ship repair yard files for Chap. 11, lays off 200
June 13, 2003|By Gus G. Sentementes | Gus G. Sentementes,SUN STAFF
Baltimore Marine Industries, which has seen its ship repair business slump more than 30 percent this year, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and laid off its 200 workers....
Aircoil to transfer 150 jobs in Jessup
Company to close plant in headquarters makeover
July 10, 2003|By TaNoah Morgan | TaNoah Morgan,SUN STAFF
Baltimore Aircoil Co., one of the area's oldest makers of industrial cooling and heat transfer equipment, is closing its manufacturing plant in Jessup and transferring at least 150 jobs to facilities in Delaware and Illinois.
UM Biotechnology Institute lays off six employees after governor's visit
Timing was coincidental, Ehrlich spokeswoman says
July 23, 2003|By Howard Libit | Howard Libit,SUN STAFF
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. played the accidental role of grim reaper for a half-dozen state employees this week.
Just hours after the governor toured the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute on Monday and praised its marine life research, the institute's president handed out layoff notices to several midlevel managers...
Black & Decker eliminates 47 jobs at Towson headquarters
Cuts are accomplished through layoffs, buyouts
September 13, 2003|By Paul Adams | Paul Adams,SUN STAFF
Black & Decker Corp. has eliminated 47 jobs at its Towson headquarters through a combination of layoffs and voluntary buyouts, the latest in a series of cost-cutting moves by the world's largest maker of power tools....This summer, the company ceased production at its Easton power tools plant, resulting in 1,300 layoffs.
Changing times flatten Maryland laminate maker
Nevamar's Odenton plant to close
360 jobs to be cut
October 03, 2003|By Jamie Smith Hopkins | Jamie Smith Hopkins,SUN STAFF
Henry L. Hillery has worked at Nevamar Co.'s manufacturing plant in Odenton for 16 years. He figured he would retire after a few more. Hitting the job market at age 59 was not on his to-do list.
But the company told workers this week that it will close the laminate factory by April to consolidate operations at its other plant in South Carolina. That means 360 jobs - including Hillery's - are about to fade away....
Developer abandons plans for Bainbridge
Manekin team had spent year, $300,000 on design for ex-naval base in Cecil
November 12, 2003|By Ted Shelsby | Ted Shelsby,SUN STAFF
Officials hoping to redevelop the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center, a 1,200-acre site in Cecil County that once served as the economic hub of Northeastern Maryland, have returned to the starting point for the second time in less than three years....
Queen Anne's hot dog plant is being closed by ConAgra
Town's biggest employer with 100 jobs, all going
January 07, 2004|By Jamie Smith Hopkins | Jamie Smith Hopkins,SUN STAFF
ConAgra Foods Inc. is shutting down a Queen Anne's County hot dog plant with 100 jobs, the largest employer in a small town and the latest in a string of factory closures on the Eastern Shore.
The company, based in Omaha, Neb., said yesterday that it is moving the manufacturing and packaging work being done just outside Queenstown to a facility in Quincy, Mich....
AAA to move Cecil center to Del. in fall
250 jobs in Elkton are to be shifted to nearby Newark
Move surprises county, state
January 17, 2004|By Jamie Smith Hopkins | Jamie Smith Hopkins,SUN STAFF
AAA Mid-Atlantic is moving a call and operations center with 250 jobs from Elkton to Newark, Del., a decision that blindsided local and state economic development leaders....
Control of Giant shifting north
Chain soon to be run from Massachusetts
February 06, 2004|By Andrea K. Walker | Andrea K. Walker,SUN STAFF
Giant Food LLC, which opened as Washington's largest grocery in 1936 and went on to become a dominant chain in Maryland and Virginia, will soon be operated out of New England. Its new chief executive will run it and its sister company Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. from Massachusetts....
Sierra sends out 744 layoff notices
Big military health insurer here will cease Aug. 31
February 19, 2004|By M. William Salganik | M. William Salganik,SUN STAFF
Seeing virtually no chance it could overturn a Pentagon bid award to a rival, Sierra Military Health Services yesterday sent layoff notices to all 744 of its employees - including 534 at its Baltimore headquarters.....
W. Md. utility to move offices
In debt, Allegheny Energy to put headquarters in Pa.
April 22, 2004|By Dan Thanh Dang | Dan Thanh Dang,sun staff
Debt-ridden Allegheny Energy Inc. said yesterday it will move its headquarters from its sprawling 365-acre campus in Hagerstown to Greensburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh, to consolidate corporate offices and save money...
More cuts are likely for former USF&G staff
St. Paul Cos. completing merger
layoffs expected
May 01, 2004|By Jamie Smith Hopkins | Jamie Smith Hopkins,SUN STAFF
In its heyday, USF&G Corp. was one of Baltimore's highest-profile companies - an insurer with an Inner Harbor high-rise to hold its thousands of local employees..... Newly merged, The St. Paul Travelers Cos. said this week it is planning to save $300 million by eliminating jobs, consolidating offices and trimming other expenses....
State hits turbulence over wooing Ghana Air
Some criticize lack of caution in pursuing faltering airline
August 22, 2004|By Molly Knight | Molly Knight,SUN STAFF
The warning signs were there - boldfaced and ominous - in the headlines of at least three West African newspapers chronicling the plight of Ghana Airways. In the months leading to June 15, the day Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele traveled to Ghana on a 10-day trade mission to Africa, The Ghanaian Chronicle, The Accra Mail and Africa News ran articles about the airline under such headlines as: "Ghana Air's Excess Luggage Saga," "Ghana Air's Sinking Image" and "Why Ghana Air is Collapsing.".....
Rouse, real estate innovator, moves into history
Chicago company closes deal to buy planner of Columbia, retail centers
November 13, 2004|By Jamie Smith Hopkins | Jamie Smith Hopkins,SUN STAFF
The Rouse Co., which spent 65 years on the cutting edge of real estate and proved that social improvement could be profitable, ceased to exist yesterday at 5:03 p.m....
GM To Close Plant
End Of The Line
November 17, 2004|By Paul Adams | Paul Adams,SUN STAFF
General Motors Corp. said yesterday that it will shutter its sprawling assembly plant in Southeast Baltimore sometime next year, eliminating the 1,100 jobs that remain....
Millennium sale closes
Some HQ functions going from Hunt Valley to Texas
December 02, 2004|By Paul Adams | Paul Adams,SUN STAFF
Life will not change much for 505 Millennium Chemical Inc. employees in Maryland now that they have become part of competitor Lyondell Chemical Co., the Houston-based company said yesterday. Lyondell completed its $2.7 billion acquisition of Hunt Valley-based Millennium Chemical at the close of business Tuesday, creating the world's fourth-largest chemical producer but eliminating another of Maryland's corporate nameplates....
Arundel's Air Cargo to file for Chapter 11
Layoffs are expected for 60 of 80 workers
December 04, 2004|By Meredith Cohn | Meredith Cohn,SUN STAFF
Air Cargo Inc., an Annapolis freight logistics company partly owned by the Carlyle Group, said yesterday that it planned to immediately cease some operations and file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization early next week. Anne Arundel County officials said that 60 of the company's 80 workers are expected to lose their jobs....
Cockeysville manufacturer to close
Maryland Specialty Wire to lay off 120 by June
January 21, 2005|By Meredith Cohn | Meredith Cohn,SUN STAFF
A Cockeysville maker of steel and nickel-based wire products said it will close permanently - the latest victim of the pressures befalling traditional manufacturing. Maryland Specialty Wire has begun laying off its 120 workers and expects to complete the task by June, the company said yesterday. The news follows recent announced layoffs or closings from several manufacturers in Maryland, including General Motors Corp. in Baltimore and Phoenix Color Corp. in Hagerstown.....
Hagerstown firm, GST AutoLeather, shifting an operation to Mexico
Plant near Williamsport employs nearly 160
January 25, 2005|By Jamie Smith Hopkins | Jamie Smith Hopkins,SUN STAFF
One of Washington County's largest employers is shutting down a manufacturing operation that employs nearly 160, its union said yesterday.
GST AutoLeather Inc., based in Hagerstown, told Unite Here union officials that it will begin laying off workers at its retanning division near Williamsport within six months as it moves the work to Mexico.....
500 jobs to be lost as Giant revamps
Grocery chain to sell, close some operations
May 04, 2005|By Andrea K. Walker | Andrea K. Walker,SUN STAFF
Giant Food LLC is selling its corporate campus in Landover and dumping most of its manufacturing facilities and warehouses, cutting hundreds of jobs and further diminishing the local presence of the nearly 70-year-old company. Yesterday's announcement is the latest shake-up in a rocky transformation at the grocer that started last year when it merged with Stop & Shop of Quincy, Mass....
NeighborCare selling out to Omnicare
$1.8 billion deal threatens 500 jobs at Baltimore HQ
July 08, 2005|By M. William Salganik | M. William Salganik,SUN STAFF
Baltimore-based NeighborCare Inc., which grew over 25 years from a single Pigtown drugstore into a billion-dollar-plus supplier of prescriptions to nursing homes, announced yesterday that it has agreed to sell out to Omnicare Inc., its larger rival in the institutional pharmacy business, for $1.8 billion. Although the companies didn't comment on plans for jobs, analysts were expecting sharp cuts among the 500 or so workers at NeighborCare's Inner Harbor headquarters. Those jobs "will be substantially reduced or eliminated," predicted.....
Closing leaves some brides in tears
An Arbutus company's demise means hundreds are in the lurch.
July 15, 2005|By Tricia Bishop and Rhasheema A. Sweeting | Tricia Bishop and Rhasheema A. Sweeting,SUN STAFF
Meghan Murray couldn't believe what she was reading.
Scanning the posts on an Internet forum this week, the 27-year-old Bethesda woman came across one that said the shop from which she had ordered her wedding gown - the perfect gown - was going out of business and was unable to fill outstanding orders. "I was just, like, horrified," Murray said...
Omnicare completes purchase of Baltimore-based NeighborCare
Jobs losses are expected at the local headquarters, analysts and experts say
July 29, 2005|By M. William Salganik | M. William Salganik,SUN STAFF
It took more than a year to get the two companies to the table, but less than a month from the announced start of talks to complete the deal. Pharmacy giant Omnicare Inc. announced yesterday that it has completed its purchase of Baltimore-based NeighborCare. In the short term, Omnicare indicated, there will be no change in NeighborCare's operations. Analysts and industry experts expect Omnicare to eliminate most or all of NeighborCare's 500 headquarters jobs in downtown Baltimore, consolidating corporate functions at its headquarters in Covington, Ky., across the river from Cincinnati....
Northrop to cut 400 local jobs
Linthicum unit will offer severance to 1,000 but may need layoffs
October 14, 2005|By PAUL ADAMS | PAUL ADAMS,SUN REPORTER
Northrop Grumman Corp., which employs 9,000 in Maryland, said yesterday that it is eliminating about 400 manufacturing jobs at its Linthicum campus, where the defense contractor develops and builds radar systems and a host of electronic sensors and networks that act as the eyes and ears for the U.S. military....
The luck runs out: Convenience stores go out of business
Lucky's chain spent half a century serving communities from Baltimore to Odenton
October 18, 2005|By ANDREA K. WALKER | ANDREA K. WALKER,SUN REPORTER
Darlene Shifflett arrived at the Lucky's Superette in Brooklyn to buy deli meat yesterday afternoon and found a metal gate pulled tightly over the entrance and a sign thanking customers for nearly a half-century of business now drawn to a close. Too stunned to drive home, the courier and cafeteria school worker from Federal Hill sat in her car in dismay. "It's like a death in the family," she said.....
Spice maker cutting HQ staff
McCormick plans buyout of unknown number
profit falls 60% in fiscal 1Q
March 22, 2006|By ALLISON CONNOLLY | ALLISON CONNOLLY,SUN REPORTER
Work force reductions are hitting home at McCormick & Co. Inc.
The world's largest spice maker is offering employees at its Sparks headquarters voluntary buyouts as part of an continuing restructuring plan to shrink its worldwide work force by up to 1,000, Robert J. Lawless, McCormick chairman, president and chief executive, said yesterday....
GM buyout offer arrives
820 hourly workers in area get packets
April 05, 2006|By ALLISON CONNOLLY AND HANAH CHO | ALLISON CONNOLLY AND HANAH CHO,SUN REPORTERS
More than 800 Baltimore-area General Motors workers received their buyout packets yesterday, giving them 45 days to decide whether to accept a severance package and leave the troubled automaker....
A juicy tale of good old corporate welfare
August 09, 2006|By JAY HANCOCK | JAY HANCOCK,SUN COLUMNIST
There have been bigger corporate welfare deals than the one that lured AAA Mid-Atlantic to Delaware. There have been worse deals, and deals negotiated with less disclosure. But rarely are "economic-development incentives" chronicled with the attention that New Jersey Policy Perspective has devoted to the $7 million-plus that lured more than 600 AAA jobs to Delaware from Pennsylvania and Maryland....
Wise Metals loses Crown order
August 18, 2006|By ALLISON CONNOLLY | ALLISON CONNOLLY,SUN REPORTER
Linthicum Heights-based Wise Metals Group LLC is losing one of its biggest customers, putting the future of the troubled aluminum sheet manufacturer in question. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company disclosed that it will lose ......
Crown name vanishing from Md. gas stations
September 08, 2006|By Hanah Cho | Hanah Cho,Sun reporter
Crown, a name long synonymous with gasoline in Baltimore, is fading away in Maryland.
Two years after Crown Central Petroleum Corp. sold more than 150 gas stations and convenience stores in Maryland and Virginia, the buyer has decided to convert most of them to Chevron, Texaco or Shell stations.....
Mercantile to be sold
Job outlook unclear
PNC pledges charitable role
October 10, 2006|By M. William Salganik | M. William Salganik,Sun reporter
Mercantile Bankshares Corp, which owns the venerable Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. and smaller banks in the region, announced yesterday that it has agreed to sell itself to Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group Inc. in a deal valued at $6 billion. The deal would end the independent existence of a bank that has been a pillar of the Baltimore establishment since the Civil War, discreetly tending to the assets of the elite. It will mean some job loss among Mercantile's 3,600 employees......
Magellan to close center
130 jobs cut in Columbia
November 18, 2006|By Jamie Smith Hopkins | Jamie Smith Hopkins,Sun reporter
Magellan Health Services Inc., a specialty managed health care organization that was once headquartered locally, said yesterday that it will close its Columbia call center, cutting 130 jobs....
400 jobs ending at fish plant
Icelandic to close Cambridge factory
December 15, 2006|By Allison Connolly | Allison Connolly,Sun Reporter
Icelandic USA Inc. is closing its fish processing plant in Cambridge, in Dorchester County, leaving 400 employees looking for work in an area that has been hard hit by the loss of solid manufacturing jobs. The plant, one of Cambridge's largest employers, has been processing and packaging frozen fish sticks and beer-battered cod since 1968. Icelandic notified workers Tuesday that it is consolidating operations near its headquarters in Newport News, Va., and will close the Maryland facility in phases by the end of next year.....
- Steve Lebowitz, Annapolis