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Schott Pharma expanding in Wilson with 400 jobs

(Business North Carolina)
Germany-based Schott Phama is investing $371 million in Wilson to build a pharmaceutical production facility that will create 401 jobs, officials announced Monday. It will be the first U.S. facility to manufacture pre-fillable polymer syringes, while adding to the nation’s supply of pre-fillable glass syringes, the company with six U.S. manufacturing facilities said in a release.

Cone, N.C. A&T move ahead on $32M east Greensboro economic project

(Winston-Salem Journal)
Cone Health and the N.C. A&T Real Estate Foundation confirmed their partnership on a $32 million mixed-use development in east Greensboro branded as The Resurgent. The development, which will begin its first phase in late April, is being focused on revitalizing the area around East Market Street, across from N.C A&T and close to U.S. 29.

Appeals court: White hospital executive fired due to Novant DEI plans

(The News & Observer)
Fourth Circuit appeals court judges upheld a Charlotte jury’s decision that white hospital executive David Duvall was wrongly fired from Novant Health in 2018 following implementation of a diversity and inclusion plan. “Novant Health … had no record of any documented criticism of Duvall’s performance or reasons for his termination,” said the three-judge panel’s opinion.

Century-old mattress store in Charlotte South End gets fourth-generation owner

(WFAE Radio)
Scott and Dori Hirsch are the new owners of Dilworth Mattress, a local business that has been in operation in Charlotte's South End since 1931, when it was started by Scott’s great-grandfather. In a world of high-tech manufacturing, 3-D printing and imported, near-disposable furniture, the Dilworth Mattress Factory still makes each mattress to order.

South Carolina Lutheran seminary moving to Hickory

(MinistryWatch.com)
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary will move from Columbia, South Carolina, to the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory in January. Enrollment has declined to about 60 from 145 when the two Evangelical Lutheran Church in America schools merged in 2012. About $2 million in annual savings are expected.

N.C. labor chief rejects infectious disease rule petitions for workplaces

(The Associated Press)
North Carolina’s elected labor commissioner has declined to adopt rules sought by worker and civil rights groups that would have set safety and masking directives in workplaces for future infectious disease outbreaks like with COVID-19. Commissioner Josh Dobson’s department held a public hearing in January when most of the people who spoke opposed the proposed rules.

Dollar General, Target among latest retailers removing, restricting self-checkout

(CNN)
Dollar General is pulling out self-checkout stands in 300 stores that have the highest levels of shoplifting and merchandise losses while also converting some or all of its self-checkout registers to regular checkout with cashiers. Meanwhile, Target is rolling out a new “express self-checkout” with limits of 10 items or less at most of its stores.

State’s EV manufacturing could spark rural economy

(WUNC Radio)
North Carolina is attracting a growing wave of new clean-energy companies, including several like Toyota that have made it a key part of what's becoming known as an electric vehicle “battery belt" in the southeast. In the process, these companies are reinvigorating a long-declining part of the state’s economy — manufacturing.