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[poonther]

Florida, on Feb 18 2008, 09:51 AM, said:

IJ Company plans to consolidate Florida and Georgia operations

VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) - Institutional Jobbers, Inc. has announced it will relocate and consolidate its Tallahassee, Florida operation with its Valdosta plant.

Known as the IJ Company, the Knoxville, Tennessee-based food distribution company hopes to complete the merger of the two operations in Valdosta by April 1.

A company statement says all 54 employees in Tallahassee have been offered jobs in Valdosta.

The company says there are 91 Valdosta employees.

Barry Houghtalen, a senior vice president with the company, says the change will allow IJ's Southern Region operations to continue to grow.

IJ Company ranks among the top 10 largest broad-line food service distributors in the country.

Source:WAAYTV.com

Never a good thing when your little sister steals away your jobs.  Valdosta and Thomasville seem to actually be our biggest competitors and lately they look like they maybe winning in the jobs department.  
Oh well at least those folks that move from TLH to VLD can be guaranteed flights from VLD on Delta for only $25 dollars more than JAX each way.  They definitely can't get that deal here.

[Florida]

Seems stories of Valdosta and Thomasville job growth hit harder in the media than Tallahassee's. Perhaps Tallahassee isn't doing as good a job at broadcasting our job creations. Last week we announced 300 new jobs at GT Technologies, job growth continues at Turbocor, and within Tallahassee's medical and financial sectors as well. I think the community needs a true Business Magazine solely dedicated to business reporting on a regular basis, not monthly, quarterly, but weekly or daily.

Edited by Florida, 18 February 2008 - 01:54 PM.

[poonther]

^I'm sure you are right.  However Tally should be pulling in 2.5 as many jobs as VLD and over 5 times as many as T'ville since we are that much bigger than them.  VLD always does a good job of getting the word out about job growth and new development in their community.

I think we may too, but I can't tell b/c when they publish a story in the Democrat, all I seem to see is the "haters and wackos" in the comment sections to the right.  Thank goodness they are moving that to the bottom of the page.  Thanks for the info FL!

[Florida]

County considers relocation effort for biotech firm

Economic development officials are seeking financial support from Leon County to help relocate a California company's biotechnology research operation to Tallahassee.

Cypress Systems Inc. would bring 18 jobs with the move. Its Excell Biotechnology Research Center would be involved in studies on Selenium in the prevention of cancer. The Leon County Commission will be asked at its meeting today to join with the Economic Development Council and the city in a partnership to help develop a 10,000-square-foot building estimated to cost $1.8 million.

The EDC is seeking input from the city and county on possibly providing matching funds for the relocation effort and will be presenting an overview of the project at the meeting.

[Florida]

Cypress Systems Inc. Website

[Florida]

MAINLINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
BPO Management Services and Mainline Information Systems Partner to Deliver Full Service IT Outsourcing

    ANAHEIM, Calif., March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BPO Management Services, Inc., "BPOMS" (OTC Bulletin Board: BPOM) a leading full-service business process outsourcing company focused on serving middle-market enterprises, today announced that its ITO Services division is partnering with Mainline Information Systems, Tallahassee, FL, an IBM Premier Business Partner and global provider of IT and business solutions with more than 400 employees, to provide managed hosting and co-location services, delivering complete datacenter solutions.

    By partnering together, BPOMS and Mainline can deliver flexible, customized disaster recovery, managed hosting and co-location hosting
solutions for mainframes, open systems, AS/400 iSeries and mid-range servers. "We are pleased to be partnering with Mainline," said BPOMS chairman and founder Patrick Dolan. "By partnering with Mainline," he added, "BPOMS can now offer its services to a broad new group of clients throughout North America." "This partnership," Dolan said, "is a great example of how service providers can come together and provide high value solutions to middle-market enterprises."

[poonther]

As I'm sure you've read EDC unveils new marketing plan.

I'm glad to read they are taking a regional approach to this and including Wakulla and Gadsden counties as well as Leon.  Now if they'd just understand that the metro includes Jefferson too and at least mention them.

Part of their new marketing approach is their redesigned website now called:

bepartofoursecret

Maybe if they didn't hide the website so far away in the COT site (much like the airport site) we wouldn't be such a secret.

I found it interesting that Branching Banking and Trust (BB&T) and here I thought it stood for Bubba Bank and Trust, employs over 400 folks in the area.  I'm curious, w/such a small presence here visually, how are they doing that?

Also what is ACS?  They are the second largest private employer in the region w/1200 employees.

[Go Gators]

I believe ACS is an IT type firm.  If that is the same ACS Im thinking of.

And I know BB&T acquired  Landrum-Yaeger & Associates (Insurance) and Regional Financial Corp, so that may have boosted there numbers.

Edited by Go Gators, 26 June 2008 - 12:23 PM.

[capoFamiglia]

poonther, on Jun 26 2008, 12:41 PM, said:

Also what is ACS?  They are the second largest private employer in the region w/1200 employees.

ACS is an IT company that has had the contract to process Medicaid claims for the state.  They lost a recompete to EDS, who will soon take over the processing.

My understanding is that although some of the ACS employees transitioned to EDS, many will remain in Tallahassee to support ACS business in other states.

[poonther]

Here's more about the economic stimulus package proposed by COT from WCTV:

The Tallahassee City Commission unveiled a plan to stimulate economic growth by becoming more business friendly.
The two part plan waives environmental permit extension fees for permits dated any time after January 1st, 2007.
The plan will also pre-permit ten development sites around the city... which will allow developers to quickly start building without having to wait for permits.
"So that if someone comes in to our community and says I would like to develop a business that employs 30 people, all that they need to do is turn in their building department application and actually get their permit, build their building and the are open," says Robert Herman, Tallahassee Growth Management Director.
"We have sped up the process. We've contemplated needs. We looked at environmental permitting. We have sites that are ready to be developed," adds Beth Kirkland who is with Tallahassee/Leon County Economic Development.
The extension on environmental permits will cover three years from the date they were issued or until December 31, 2010... whichever is later.


I'd love to see a list of the 10 pre-permit development sites. If anyone finds out this info, please share it.

Edited by poonther, 10 July 2008 - 10:04 AM.

[poonther]

Has anyone else received or read the hard-copy of our area's newest biz magazine?  It's called:

850

It covers all the counties in the 850 area code from Escambia to Jefferson.  While I did not receive the hard-copy of the magazine, my parents over in the PC area did.  I enjoyed reading it.  It looked professional and sleek as you'd expect a biz magazine to be.  It is done by the same folks that do the Tallahassee Magazine and will be quarterly to begin with, but they hope to make it bi-monthly soon.

I feel it's a great improvement over the Tally Democrat's Business Matters paper.  That supplement started out as bi-weekly, but has now just become monthly.  The Biz Matters paper mainly just covers the Tally metro area.  It started off pretty good, but has slowly been fading in my eyes.

I wish 850 success and like the fact that they've taken a regional approach.