Wal-Mart will add 3,000 new jobs in North Carolina in 2009, the company’s general manager for the Carolinas David Carmon announced Wednesday.
Wal-Mart expects healthy growth throughout the second two quarters of the year. “In a time when many are suffering, we want North Carolinians to know that we are here to stay,” Carmon said in a written statement issued by the company.
The company operates 21 stores in the Triad and employed 9,700 people locally as of Aug. 22, according to Business Journal research. Wal-Mart did not provide a breakdown of how many of the new jobs would be in the Triad.
The company employs more than 51,000 people at 155 locations across the state, making it the largest employer in North Carolina.
Wednesday the N.C. Wal-Mart Foundation’s State Giving Council of North Carolina announced that it had awarded more than $7 million to nonprofits in the state in 2008. Two Triad groups received grants, the Hospice Palliative Care of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Street School. The amounts of the grants were not available.
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