2016 Successes
“A Dutch logistics company will add 200 jobs in Johnstown, in what’s being touted as a “great win” for the small village in Licking County. Bleckmann USA LLC is planning to set up a distribution operation – its first in the U.S. – at 188 Commerce Blvd., expecting to serve a prospective client which has not yet been publicly identified. The company mainly works with fashion retailers…" Get all the details here.
Cost Less Lighting, a lighting company based out of the Etna Corporate Park expanded their existing footprint to include a new 60,000 square foot manufacturing-purposed space. This investment of expanding their existing Central Ohio location will enable the creation of 20 new job opportunities over the first five years of operation and allow Cost Less Lighting the ability to better serve their customers around the world.
“A global beauty company will add cosmetics manufacturing to a distribution operation in Etna Township in a $4 million project that will add 73 jobs. New York-based Coty Inc., whose brands include Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, OPI and Sally Hansen, has a distribution operation at the site. The $4 million will go toward machinery and equipment to make cosmetic kits starting this summer…” Full story is here.
“American Electric Power announced plans to build a $20 million transmission regional distribution center on 100 acres in the county's Job Ready Site and Pataskala Corporate Park…” Read more details here.
