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Manufacturer Corporate HQ coming to Beaufort County

PRE News & Ideas | By George Olsen
Published February 15, 2018 at 1:34 PM EST

A new business coming to Beaufort County will bring a $2.7 million investment to the area. The Governor’s Office has announced that InterMarket Technology Inc. will locate its corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility to Washington. InterMarket manufactures point-of-purchase displays for such companies as Nestle, Coke, Pepsi and Dollar General as well as recycling bins. Operations in Washington will create 57 jobs over the next three years. Average wages weren’t announced but a press release from the Governor’s Office says yearly payroll impact will be $1.7 million to the local economy. InterMarket will be eligible for a grant of $50,000 from the One North Carolina Fund dependent on job creation and investment goals.

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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.
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