Finger Lakes Region, 2005

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Labor Statistics
Finger Lakes Region, 2005

Business Expansions

Company	County	# Jobs	Article Date	Comments
Akzo Nobel NV	Livingston	12	11-18-2005	The company's plan to make commercially salable water-softening tablets would create a dozen or more jobs.
Alleson Athletic	Monroe	50	11-08-2005	The company makes and markets high-quality uniforms for every major sport. It expects to create 50 new jobs over the next few years.
American Motive Power	Livingston	200	07-09-2005	The company rebuilds locomotive engines and trucks.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers	Monroe	40	07-13-2005	The new store in Webster will employ 40 workers.
Bausch & Lomb	Monroe	200	06-01-2005
Bausch & Lomb Inc.	Monroe	100	01-12-2005
CGI Communications	Monroe	150	12-20-2005	The 90-employee company makes software that broadcasts streaming video over the Internet and creates online videos for businesses and municipalities.
CGI Communications Inc.	Monroe	120	02-25-2005	The company, which provides promotional material for municipalities across the country, plans to hire at least 30 employees every quarter in 2005.
Continental Service Group Inc.	Monroe	60	12-09-2005	The Perinton-based debt collector is looking to add 60 people in its student loan division.
CooperVision Inc.	Monroe	300	06-25-2005	The company will add about 100 new manufacturing jobs over the next year after the acquisition of a contact lens competitor -- on top of the 200 new jobs they will add when they open a new warehouse in Henrietta (Monroe County) next year.
Current Communications LLC	Monroe	110	12-23-2005	The company has signed a deal with a Dallas electric utility to provide broadband Internet service over power lines.
Faradyne Motors	Wayne	132	12-15-2005	The creation of this company will be a joint venture between ITT Industries Inc. (Goulds Pumps) and Minnesota-based Pentair Inc. The company will create electric motors for pumps.
Hammer Lithograph Corp.	Monroe	20	03-16-2005
Harris Corp.	Monroe	150	10-20-2005
Harris Corp.	Monroe	65	03-11-2005
Harris RF Communications	Monroe	150	07-08-2005	The company received a $50 million federal contract to provide military radios to the U.S. Army.
Keuka Footwear Inc.	Yates	30	02-16-2005	The Internet-based occupational footwear company initially plans to hire 10 to 12 full-time, as well as several part-time, employees and hopes to hire 25 to 30 employees by their third year of operation.
LMC Industrial Contractors	Livingston	30	07-09-2005	This company makes conveyor systems for sites such as airports and supermarkets.
Lumetrics Inc.	Monroe	11	12-02-2005	The company, which designs and manufactures a high-tech measuring device, plans to add 11 employees to its five-person workforce in the next 12 months.
MAGC Inc.	Orleans	100	02-17-2005	The controlled atmosphere storage facility is expanding and expects to create 100 new jobs over the next three years. In addition, the expansion could result in 200 new jobs on area farms.
Maximus	Monroe	16	04-14-2005	The medical management company employs 32 full-time people and plans to boost its workforce by about half.
Microwave Data Systems Inc.	Monroe	50	11-03-2005
Nicholas H. Noyes Memorial Hospital	Livingston	20	06-24-2005	An expansion project at the hospital will increase services and add about 20 employees -- from clerical staff to physicians -- over a one-year period.
PAETEC Corp.	Monroe	50	12-07-2005	The Perinton-based telecommunications company is seeking to fill about 50 open positions from engineering to sales.
Parlec Inc.	Monroe	20	06-24-2005	The machining company will add at least 20 workers and expand its product lines with an economic development loan.
Paychex Inc.	Monroe	480	07-20-2005
PeerConnect Inc.	Monroe	14	03-03-2005	The maker of software that helps secure e-commerce transactions could add as many as 14 people to its 10-person company in the next 18 months.
Pioneer Credit Recovery	Genesee	100	01-14-2005	The company hopes to have 100 employees working by the end of February and more than double that by later this year.
Pioneer Credit Recovery Inc.	Genesee	120	08-19-2005
Pliant Corp.	Wayne	20	04-18-2005	The factory will undergo an expansion between May and October.
Pliant Corp.	Wayne	20	02-24-2005	The plastic packaging manufacturer is expanding its plant and could add up to 20 jobs to its 440-person workforce.
Rochester Precision Optics	Monroe	75	11-16-2005
SPG Direct	Ontario	20	01-04-2005	The marketing consulting company will open a sister company, Wave Technology, to sell software designed to help its clients market their own products.
Staples	Monroe	50	09-09-2005	The company is hiring workers for its call center which supports its commercial delivery service for office supplies.
Sutherland Global Services	Monroe	200	11-04-2005
Target	Monroe	200	07-13-2005	The new store in Webster will employ 200 full and part-time employees.
The Sentry Group	Monroe	30	08-30-2005	The safe manufacturer is bringing some of its manufacturing back to Rochester from its plant in China and will add 30 jobs to its workforce of 400 over the next four years.
Unisys Corp.	Monroe	300(Est.)	06-21-2005	The company is moving from Ontario County to Monroe County. About 250 employees will be retained and 88 hired over the next five years.
University of Rochester	Monroe	25	06-03-2005
Verizon Wireless	Monroe	50	05-26-2005	The company has hired 121 people at its call center since January, and expects to hire 50 more in coming months -- that is on top of about 270 people the cellular company added in 2004.
West Group	Monroe	25	09-23-2005
Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp.	Genesee	100	04-29-2005
Xerox Corp.	Monroe	40	06-24-2005	The company announced plans to build a toner plant at its Webster (Monroe County) campus, creating 40 jobs.
YMCA	Monroe	95	09-21-2005
Zotos International Inc.	Ontario	40	08-16-2005	The company, which produces and distributes hair care products, plans an expansion that is expected to add 40 new jobs over the next two years.

Business Contractions

Company	County	# Jobs	Article Date	Comments
AB Dick Co.	Monroe	50	04-29-2005	The maker of presses and other equipment for the printing industry will close its area operations later this year.
Anderson Logistics	Ontario	28	01-18-2005	The company will be closing mid-March. The exact number of layoffs has not been determined as some employees will be offered relocation assignments.
Birds Eye Foods Inc.	Monroe	10	06-24-2005	The company has cut 10 administrative and management positions.
Caldwell Manufacturing Co.	Monroe	39	08-13-2005	Members of IUE-CWA Local 81331, are out on strike. The company has been able to sustain production by using temporary workers. Caldwell makes window balances for raising and lowering double-hung windows.
Chase-Pitkin Home & Garden Centers	Monroe	1648	10-05-2005	The home improvement chain will begin closing its 14 stores, 10 of which are in the Rochester area, early next year. The closing will affect 395 full-time and 1,253 part-time employees in the Rochester area.
Eastman Kodak Co.	Monroe	7500	07-21-2005	The company plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs, in addition to the 15,000 already announced as the photographic products company posted a loss in the second quarter from a year-ago profit.
Eastman Kodak Co.	Monroe	100	03-17-2005	The company will stop making raw paper and plans to shut down its paper mill.
Eastman Kodak Co.	Monroe	100	04-29-2005	The company is shifting assembly of its digital imaging kiosks to an undisclosed third-party contract manufacturer. This will displace employees from Kodak Park.
Eastman Kodak Co.	Monroe	450	08-26-2005	The company will stop making color photographic paper at Kodak Park, resulting in a loss of more than 450 jobs.
F.F. Thompson Health	Ontario	47	12-02-2005	The health system will eliminate 47.5 full-time positions through layoffs, attrition, vacancies and reduction in overtime.
Horizon Aerospace	Ontario	23	03-23-2005	Nine workers will be laid off on 3/24/05 and an additional 14 will be laid off in April or May.
JP Morgan Chase	Monroe	300	07-19-2005	The bank will eliminate 300 workers from its home equity center, leaving about 340 home equity office workers here.
Krispy Kreme	Monroe	20	06-10-2005	The company's Greece location has closed.
Meridian Automotive Systems	Ontario	80	09-16-2005	After cutting its workforce by nearly half during the last six months, the company had decided to close within the next few months, affecting about 80 employees.
Meridian Automotive Systems Inc.	Ontario	92	03-30-2005
Sonoco Products Co.	Ontario	40	08-19-2005	The packaging company announced it will close its factory over the next year.
Valeo Electrical Systems	Monroe	500	07-29-2005	The automotive parts manufacturer will close and work done at the plant will be transferred to a factory in Mexico.
Valeo Electrical Systems, Inc.	Monroe	625	12-29-2005	Layoffs are due to begin between 2/20/06 and will end in July or August 2008.
Viking Polymer Solutions	Orleans	70	12-13-2005	The company makes a variety of auto parts like radiator gaskets and motor mounts.
Xerox Corp.	Monroe	70	03-09-2005

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