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Pharmaceutical company to expand operations in Greenville

The Governor’s Office has announced the expansion of a Greenville pharmaceutical plant that is expected to bring 110 jobs to the area. George Olsen has more.

Specialty pharmaceutical company Mayne Pharma plans to invest $65 million over the next five years at its Greenville site. The money will go toward a new large scale oral dose and solid dose manufacturing facility. The expansion will add 110 jobs to the plant that currently employs 350 people.  Salaries for the new hires will vary but are expected to average $60,000 per year, well above the Pitt County average of just over $35,000. The company will be eligible for grants up to $550,000 from the One North Carolina Fund, based on job creation and investment performance. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.