| Company | Comments | # Jobs | County | Article Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acro Industries Inc. | The company will expand its Rochester operations and add 55 jobs over the next three years. | 55 | Monroe | 5/13/2004 |
| Advent Tool and Mold Inc. | 25 | Monroe | 1/19/2004 | |
| American Coradius Inc. | The debt collection service will create 125 jobs over three years. | 125 | Wyoming | 4/2/2004 |
| American Fiber Systems | The company will expand employment by 31 people, bringing total employment to 65. | 31 | Monroe | 4/30/2004 |
| Australian Cancer Technology | Opened US headquarters in Pittsford. Twenty workers by end of year. | 20(Est.) | Monroe | 3/5/2004 |
| Batavia Downs Race Track | The race track will reopen and install video lottery terminals to cover the track's debt and operating costs. The track employed about 120 full- and part-time employees. | 120(Est.) | Genesee | 8/27/2004 |
| Buckmans Car Wash | Three new locations have been added -- Gates, Spencerport and Penfield. | 20 | Monroe | 10/13/2004 |
| Cannon Industries Inc. | The sheet-metal manufacturer plans to hire 25 people within three years. | 25 | Monroe | 10/29/2004 |
| Century Mold Co. Inc. | The company expects to add 50 employees over the next three years. | 50 | Monroe | 12/24/2004 |
| Century Mold Co. Inc. | 50 | Monroe | 11/18/2004 | |
| Clarity Customer Management Inc. | The customer contact center and marketing responses services company plans to hire 65 workers over the next three years. | 65 | Monroe | 10/29/2004 |
| Constellation Brands Inc. | The Canadaigua plant has added 60 workers at its Arbor Mist production lines, bringing total employment to 220 people. | 60 | Ontario | 5/21/2004 |
| CooperVision Inc. | The lens-manufacturing unit will add "a couple hundred jobs" within the next two years with the acquisition of Ocular Sciences Inc., making Cooper the world's third largest maker of contact lenses. The company currently employs 1,100 people in the Rochester area. | 200 | Monroe | 7/29/2004 |
| Delphi Corp. | The automotive parts manufacturer's upgrade project would retain 283 jobs and create 157 new jobs. | 157 | Monroe | 6/25/2004 |
| Diamond Contract Manufacturing | 20 | Monroe | 1/14/2004 | |
| D'Lisi Food Systems | The company plans to add 200 jobs this year. | 200 | Monroe | 1/29/2004 |
| Dundee Packing Company | Company officials expect to produce 45 new jobs in three years. | 45 | Yates | 4/4/2004 |
| Eastman Kodak Co. | The company plans a new factory that will produce supplies for turning digital images into high-quality photographic prints. Once open in mid-2006, the company expects to fill the 50 jobs with existing personnel. | 50 | Monroe | 12/21/2004 |
| E-chx | The payroll services provider is eligible for a capital grant and will hire an additional 31 employees. | 31 | Monroe | 8/19/2004 |
| E-chx Inc. | This company is a payroll processor located in Brighton. | 140 | Monroe | 1/21/2004 |
| Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc. | The Wisconsin-based construction firm plans to move to a Rochester office during the first week of February. They expect to hire 40-60 local workers for a downtown Rochester bridge project. | 40 | Monroe | 1/21/2004 |
| e-LocalLink | The company plans to hire between 50 and 100 employees in the next eight months. | 75 | Monroe | 4/6/2004 |
| Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack | The track has hired about 240 new employees, bringing its total employment to close to 300 full-time and 500 part-time workers. | 240 | Ontario | 2/17/2004 |
| Flour City Brewing Inc. | They plan to employ between 75 and 100 full- and part-time workers. | 75 | Monroe | 3/5/2004 |
| FM Resources | The office products business will merge with Merkel Donohue. The company will employ 70 and could add 35 employees in the next five years. | 35(Est.) | Monroe | 8/5/2004 |
| Gates Albert Inc. | 12 | Monroe | 3/5/2004 | |
| Home Depot | 100-120 full- and part-time positions. Construction is to start in June and the store will open in 2003. The grand opening of this store was in January 2004 and they employ between 100-120 people. (Updated 1/29/04) | 100(Est.) | Genesee | 1/10/2004 |
| Impact Technologies | The company is a high-tech engineering, consulting, and health management company that employs 28 people. | 95 | Monroe | 1/21/2004 |
| Klein Steel Service Inc. | The company estimates it will double its current workforce of 71 workers within three years. | 71 | Monroe | 10/27/2004 |
| Kohl's Department Stores | Kohl's is ready to hire for area stores opening in October in Greece, Henrietta and Webster. | 450 | Monroe | 8/4/2004 |
| Kohl's Department Stores | Kohl's is ready to hire for area stores opening in October in Greece, Henrietta and Webster. | 450 | Monroe | 8/4/2004 |
| LiDestri Foods Inc. | The company has broken ground on an expansion that is expected to be completed by mid-2005 and will add 38 workers to its 338-person workforce over the next three years. | 38 | Monroe | 8/18/2004 |
| Mercantile Solutions | The full-service collection agency plans to add 100 employees within the next 12 to 18 months. | 100 | Monroe | 10/29/2004 |
| Microwave Data Systems | By year's end, the company expects to hire 25 people in manufacturing, administration and research, adding to its Rochester employment base of about 250. | 25 | Monroe | 9/22/2004 |
| Millennium Machining | The Michigan company will buy the assets of Hauser Corp. and plans to add 145 positions to the 60-employee Macedon plant. | 145 | Wayne | 10/20/2004 |
| Nalge Nunc International Inc. | The company expects to add 150 employees with its acquisition of Pactech, a local packaging firm. | 150 | Monroe | 3/26/2004 |
| Paychex Inc. | The payroll company plans to boost the company's sales force to more vigorously sell its products. | 100 | Monroe | 7/9/2004 |
| Pioneer Credit Recovery | The loan collection company plans to open a third location in the area, in Batavia. The company already employs 850 at two locations in Perry and Arcade, Wyoming County. | 450 | Genesee | 9/17/2004 |
| State Farm Insurance | The insurer has a two-year plan to consolidate operations from Buffalo and Syracuse to Brighton. They are hiring claims representatives and processors over the next six months, adding to its current area claims workforce of about 70. | 50 | Monroe | 2/6/2004 |
| Sutherland Global Services | The company is shutting down its San Diego location and is moving 100 positions to the Rochester area. | 100 | Monroe | 10/15/2004 |
| University of Rochester | The U of R will buy a research facility, the former Wyeth Lederle Vaccines laboratory, and establish an expanded center for the study of cardiovascular disease. About 120 scientists and technicians from the UR medical center will move to the Henrietta facility. The university's goal is to double the number of researchers at the center within five years. | 240(Est.) | Monroe | 8/26/2004 |
| Verizon Wireless | The company plans to hire 200 full-time workers by the end of March. | 200 | Monroe | 10/7/2004 |
| Verizon Wireless | The company plans to hire an estimated 100 people -- customer service specialists and managers - by the end of March. | 100 | Monroe | 1/7/2004 |
| Verizon Wireless Inc. | The 100 positions plan to be added this quarter. The jobs are in addition to 185 positions the company added in the fourth quarter 2003. The call center employs nearly 600 people. | 100 | Monroe | 1/9/2004 |
| Washington Mutual | The bank is looking to hire several hundred telephone bankers at its inbound banking call center. | 200 | Orleans | 1/9/2004 |
| Zotos International | The manufacturer and distibutor of hair care products will renovate and upgrade its facility and will add about 40 jobs over the next three years. | 40 | Ontario | 12/28/2004 |
| Company | Comments | # Jobs | County | Article Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.B. Dick Company | 91 | Monroe | 8/20/2004 | |
| Alstom Signaling | The 130 workers are represented by the International Union of Electrical Workers/Communications Workers of America Local 323. The union says the workers are locked out and the company says the workers are on strike. Salaried workers and supervisors are still working at the plant. | 130 | Monroe | 5/28/2004 |
| Alstom Signaling Inc. | The company has shut down its plant for four weeks and workers will not be paid during the shutdown. | 115 | Monroe | 4/7/2004 |
| Batavia Downs Race Track | The track's owner, Western Regional Off-Track Betting, decided to close for the entire 2004 season, scheduled to begin in August. | 120 | Genesee | 5/28/2004 |
| Bosdyk's Restaurant and Lounge | The restaurant is closing. | 70 | Monroe | 9/8/2004 |
| Case-Hoyt | The commercial printing company will close by early April. | 290 | Monroe | 1/30/2004 |
| Charter One Bank | The bank is being acquired by Citizens Financial Group Inc. and its Auto Finance Group will be closed to eliminate duplication within the merged organization. | 400 | Monroe | 8/20/2004 |
| Danka Office Imaging Co. | 85 | Monroe | 2/5/2004 | |
| Eastman Kodak Co. | The company will eliminate 12,000 to 15,000 jobs worldwide over the next three years because of the accelerating declines in film sales and a need to be more aggressive in digital imaging. Approximately 5,000 layoffs are projected for the FL Region. This annoucement combined with the 3,500 cuts in April 2003 means total employment for the firm by the end of 2006 is projected at around 12,000 -- from 20,600 today. | Monroe | 1/22/2004 | |
| Fleet National Bank | The 200 positions will be moved to Dallas because of the Boston-based bank's acquisition by Bank of America Corp. The move is expected to be made sometime next summer. | 200 | Monroe | 9/10/2004 |
| General Motors Acceptance Corp. | The company is closing its field service office. The work will be consolidated into the company's Pittsburgh office. | 51 | Monroe | 8/24/2004 |
| Global Crossing | The company will cut 115 from its operations in the Rochester area in stages over the next five months. | 115 | Monroe | 10/12/2004 |
| Harris Interactive Inc. | The company will close its Rochester telephone research call center by the end of June, affecting about 12 full-time and 150 part-time workers. | 162 | Monroe | 2/3/2004 |
| Kidspeace | This residential facility for disturbed children is closing. | 400 | Seneca | 10/5/2004 |
| Kitchen Etc. | The home merchandise store is closing within 90 days. | 25 | Monroe | 7/15/2004 |
| Lauers Furniture | The furniture retailer is closing. | 20 | Monroe | 9/17/2004 |
| Pactiv Corp. | The company plans to eliminate 50 to 55 jobs from its technical center and manufacturing plant and relocate between 25 and 30 engineering jobs. | 85 | Ontario | 4/2/2004 |
| Pitney Bowes Management Services | Plant closing -- WARN Notice filed. | 60 | Monroe | 12/22/2004 |
| Roehlen Engraving | 70 | Monroe | 4/8/2004 | |
| Rood Trucking Co. | About 30 Rochester area drivers have gone on strike, refusing to drive for the Ohio firm that hauls U.S. mail in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. | 30 | Monroe | 11/6/2004 |
| Seneca Foods Corp. | The company is stopping production at its food processing plant in Marion (Wayne County)and transferring most of its employees to an expanded facility in Geneva (Ontario County)and laying off about 20 workers. | 20 | Wayne | 10/10/2004 |
| Tyco Plastics and Adhesives | The company is closing both its Macedon (Wayne County) plant, affecting 173 employees, and its Webster (Monroe County) warehouse, affecting 23 employees, in July. | 196 | Wayne | 2/6/2004 |
| Ultralife Batteries Inc. | 126 | Wayne | 10/6/2004 | |
| Ultralife Batteries Inc. | If military sales do not increase, the company may lay off 250 workers. | 250 | Wayne | 9/28/2004 |
| Upstate Litho Inc. | 50 | Monroe | 4/16/2004 | |
| USF Red Star Inc. | The company blamed the shutdown on a strike initiated by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 118. | 35 | Monroe | 5/26/2004 |
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