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Beretta to relocate to Gallatin, TN
Beretta is moving to TN! Woo Hoo! Glad to have them!
http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/features/228450
"The Beretta family has manufactured products and done business from the same town in northern Italy for almost 500 years.... when Beretta chooses a location for its business, we plan not just in terms of a return on investment within the next few years. We also start with the possibility that we will be in that location for decades, if not hundreds of years, to come."
Yesterday Beretta's Jeff Reh used those words as a preamble to the company's decision to relocate its 35-year old U.S. manufacturing facilities from Accokeek, Maryland to Gallatin, Tennessee.
That announcement means distinctly different things to the governors of Tennessee and Maryland.
If you're Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, it means you've brought 300 new jobs to your state. If you're Maryland's Martin O'Malley, you're looking for a way to explain that the state's anti-gun position will cost state residents jobs with one of the world's most stable companies.
Beretta officials joined Haslam and Tennessee Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty in Nashville yesterday to announce the move- and the construction of a $45 million dollar state-of-the-art manufacturing and research and development facility in the Gallatin Industrial Park. That construction, according to Beretta officials, will be finished this year.
http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/features/228450
"The Beretta family has manufactured products and done business from the same town in northern Italy for almost 500 years.... when Beretta chooses a location for its business, we plan not just in terms of a return on investment within the next few years. We also start with the possibility that we will be in that location for decades, if not hundreds of years, to come."
Yesterday Beretta's Jeff Reh used those words as a preamble to the company's decision to relocate its 35-year old U.S. manufacturing facilities from Accokeek, Maryland to Gallatin, Tennessee.
That announcement means distinctly different things to the governors of Tennessee and Maryland.
If you're Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, it means you've brought 300 new jobs to your state. If you're Maryland's Martin O'Malley, you're looking for a way to explain that the state's anti-gun position will cost state residents jobs with one of the world's most stable companies.
Beretta officials joined Haslam and Tennessee Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty in Nashville yesterday to announce the move- and the construction of a $45 million dollar state-of-the-art manufacturing and research and development facility in the Gallatin Industrial Park. That construction, according to Beretta officials, will be finished this year.
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Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
One of my regrets from Europe...I didn't get a chance to take the Berreta factory tour.
Jerry
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician
Anyway, I'm glad that Beretta is moving here. Gallatin is a good choice of locations, though I'd have preferred E. TN. I only have one Beretta pistol, but might just have to take a look at what they have when they get moved.
Jerry's right. No state income tax on individuals, so the workers will be better off financially. And food, housing, and such is cheaper than where they're coming from if the workers move here. Hope some more manufacturers head South; we'll make 'em welcome! :up:
― Douglas Adams
Jerry
I know it says 300, but are all 300 actual local hire.
It just had me thinking. One of the big ticket things on the last two elections in AK was oil Company jobs....Lately, Oil companies have been saying "hey we will bring 1,000 jobs to the state..." and everyone gets happy and allows them procede. But once on ground, that job number shrinks to <600 becasueht of all the outside hires the compnay brought in. So the Jobs were there, but they weren't all filled with alaskans...
Of course I doubt there are 300 jobs locals can fill in that town, but there are a bunch of jobs they can.
Of course, as soon as Tennessee voted the wrong way, Saturn got shut down by the unions and the liberal politicians! I don't think they're building any cars at all there now!
Jerry