GTA spreads to Reidsville bringing back overseas jobs
22 Sep '06
2 min read
Global Textile Alliance Inc (GTA) operating in Colfax and producer of mattress ticking and upholstery for furniture makers has traded with at least 15 textile companies globally to make parallel GTA products.
Governor Mike Easely stated that GTA is opening new units in Reidsville offering 48 textile jobs with $12.3 million investment in the country market.
It will spread out to former Burlington House building on Holiday Loop Road in east of Reidsville. GTA considered Reidsville due to a $100,000 grant from the Governor's One North Carolina Fund.
Burlington House Weaving Plant is accommodated by International Textiles Group (ITG). GTA declared its closure and relocation to Caswell County on June, 5.
GTA was making mattress ticking in Indonesia and China. It opted to move to US to evade duties, tariffs and fabric quotas and to engage the skilled employees of North Carolina. This move is contradictory to current textile trends.
State Representative Nelson Cole informed that their strategies and devoted employees were returning overseas jobs to North Carolina and improving economy which was proved by GTA's resolution to spread to Rockingham County.
Easely's office informed that GTA workers will get $580 per week excluding benefits which is more than the county's average $547 per week salary. The total number of GTA employees across the state will reach 100 with addition of 48 extra jobs.
Jamie Rorrer of Rockingham County Partnership stated that GTA had worked with them for three months on the enterprise and planned to relocate in late November.
She was uncertain whether the county was in competition with other regions for the venture.
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