FORT PIERCE, FL--Maverick Boat Group broke ground here last week on a new, state-of-the-art 106,000 square-foot facility where its Cobia line of boats will be built. The company will add more than 100 new jobs and already employs 287 local workers.
LITTLE FALLS, MN---Indiana-based Wabash National, which makes high-test, lightweight truck trailers, recently acquired the just-shuttered Larson Boat plant here and plans to invest $11 million to renovate and equip the facility. The company hopes to employ 70 people by 2019 and 100 or more within five years.
Large companies and small towns are sometimes a perfect fit. The most well-known example of this is Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which is the world’s largest retailer but is headquartered in tiny Bentonville, AR.
VONORE, TN—Yamaha Jet Boat Manufacturing USA Inc. will invest $17.7 million to expand operations at its assembly plant here. The company also expects to create 150 new jobs at the factory.
SWANSBORO, NC—Armstrong Marine Inc. will invest more than $8.4 millionto build a new assembly plant to make welded aluminum boats. The facility could create 200 jobs.
FORT WAYNE, IN—Brunswick Corp. has opened a new assembly plant here to make high-end pontoon boats and expects to add 200 jobs to its workforce by 2016.
NEW YORK MILLS, MN—Lund Boat and its parent company, Brunswick Corp., have agreed to pay $295,000 in back wages and interest to 185 female job applicants who were denied entry-level positions at Lund’s assembly plant here.
