GARNER, N.C. – Each year the Triangle Business Journal bestows its SPACE Awards to the business leaders behind the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill region’s most prominent economic development projects, innovative commercial real estate developments, and largest commercial real estate transactions. This year’s Economic Development Award for New Industry was presented jointly to the Town of Garner and Butterball, LLC in recognition of the impending relocation of the company’s corporate headquarters from Mt. Olive, N.C. to Garner.
At a special awards ceremony held Jan. 31 at the North Ridge Country Club in Raleigh, Garner Mayor Ronnie Williams and Alice Johnson, Butterball’s vice president of food safety, government regulation and public affairs, accepted the award for the joint effort. Staff from the Garner Chamber of Commerce were also in attendance at the ceremony.
“For the panel of judges to choose the Butterball deal as the most significant in the entire Triangle region is incredible,” said Chamber President Neal Padgett. “It reinforced that the Butterball move is huge for Garner.”
In August 2007 officials broke ground in Garner’s Greenfield North business park on a $12 million, 71,400-square-foot facility that will eventually house Butterball’s corporate headquarters. The new headquarters will include executive offices as well as a state-of-the-art kitchen that will be used to educate retailers on the versatility of turkey meat. Butterball is the largest producer of turkeys in the United States, with sales of approximately $1.4 billion in 2007.
The town provided $180,000 in incentives for the relocation, and the deal is expected to bring around 150 corporate Butterball employees to Garner. Williams, Town Manager Hardin Watkins and Assistant Town Manager Rodney Dickerson negotiated the package on behalf of the town.
For more information, contact the Garner Chamber of Commerce at (919) 772-6440.
About the Garner Chamber of Commerce
The Garner Chamber of Commerce is an active organization made up of nearly 600 businesses and community groups. For more than 40 years the Garner Chamber has worked to advance Garner’s economic vitality and enhance the area’s quality of life. For more information, visit www.garnerchamber.com, call (919) 772-6440 or e-mail info@garnerchamber.com
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