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FactSet Research, a Greenwich,
Conn., supplier of research assets for the investment
community, relocated one of its two primary data
centers from Greenwich to Reston. The move to
the state-of-the-art facility allows FactSet redundancy
in critical systems and the capacity for future
expansion. (02/17/04, Business Wire)
Rage Corp., a plastics manufacturer,
announced plans to locate a new facility in
Altavista. The $2 million investment creates
25 jobs. Virginia competed with Ohio for the
project. (02/10/04, Press release)
CMA CGM, based in France,
announced it will locate its North American headquarters
in Norfolk’s Lake Wright Executive Center
office park. The company, the world’s fifth-largest
shipping firm, will move 376 employees to an $11.5
million, 80,000-square-foot facility to be developed
at Lake Wright. The company plans to transfer
260 employees from Virginia Beach, and 116 from
New Jersey. (02/05/04, The Virginian-Pilot)
