From the Chatham News + Record: PITTSBORO — Gov. Roy Cooper paid a visit to the Gilero manufacturing facility in Pittsboro last Thursday to see how personal protective equipment is produced. Gilero, a medical device maker with a second location in Morrisville, shifted its production focus in April to help Read more…
The Chatham Economic Development Corporation is working in partnership with the East and West Chatham Chapters of the NAACP, the Chatham Chamber of Commerce, and other community and business organizations to identify Black-owned businesses in Chatham County. Our current list of Black-owned businesses in Chatham is available below. To join Read more…
Usually, Charter Furniture’s Siler City plant is hard at work with their employees producing the high-end furniture that decorates lobbies of well-known hotel brands across the country. Now, as it does for so many others, everything looks a little different. To keep their employees safe, Charter Furniture is in daily Read more…
Published by the Chatham News + Record SILER CITY — Along with other organizations in Chatham County, ranging from the nonprofit Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge to medical device manufacturer Gilero, Charter Furniture has begun to tailor its facilities and equipment to helping in the fight against COVID-19. The Siler City-based Read more…
Published by the Chatham News + Record SILER CITY — As people make runs to grocery stores, clearing shelves, fears of a shortage of food prevails. But in reality, workers in food and agriculture sector — that means agricultural production, food processing, distribution, retail and food service — are named Read more…
Published by the Chatham News + Record PITTSBORO — As companies and businesses around the world shift their production focus to making products designed to help fight the spread of COVID-19, a Pittsboro-based medical device manufacturer is doing the same. Kaitlyn Shaffer, the marketing communications manager for Gilero, said the Read more…
Published by the Chatham News + Record BEAR CREEK — As the state of North Carolina begins to “stay at home” as ordered by N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper last week, trucks and truck drivers are continuing their work to keep the supply chains moving — even as they face their Read more…
On Monday, March 23, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced new safeguards to help slow the spread of COVID-19. The measures are effective Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 5 p.m. Below are the key points of the announcement. Entertainment facilities without a retail or dining component are ordered to close, Read more…
Updated: 5.15.2020 at 11:20 a.m. The Chatham EDC, with support from partners at the Chatham Chamber of Commerce and Chamber for a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro, is compiling resources and advice for businesses amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. This page will be updated as resources become available. Reopening Your Business The Read more…
With the rapid pace of growth and development in the Research Triangle region, workforce development is a top priority for many. The Regional Skills Analysis survey aims to gain a better understanding of the current state of the local workforce, skill gaps, and trends in growth, hiring, and industries. In Read more…