Business & Tech
Carter's to Bring Hundreds of Jobs To Braselton
The largest branded marketer of baby and young children's apparel in the United States has selected the north Georgia city as the home of its new multichannel distribution center.
Six-hundred more jobs are coming to north Georgia. This time, Braselton was selected as the site for economic development.
On Wednesday, Gov. Nathan Deal and the CEO of Carter’s, Inc., announced the company will use a one-million-square-foot facility and open the center to support the company’s e-commerce, retail, and wholesale businesses in June.
The company expects to invest more than $50 million in the new facility and create more than 600 new full -time jobs in Georgia by 2015, according to a news release.
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“Carter’s new distribution center will have an immediate, positive impact on the lives of Jackson County residents,” said Deal in a released statement. “Encouraging job growth in the state is of the utmost importance, and we are pleased Carter’s has chosen to invest in Georgia and its workforce.”
Georgia QuickStart, the state’s oldest and most successful job training program, will support Carter’s in developing a high performance workforce for the new facility. The company will begin its hiring process in early May to fill positions in operations, engineering, inventory control, human resources and additional support roles. A job fair will be held May 9-12 at the new facility in Braselton. Interested candidates can visit www.carters.com/DCjobs to learn more and apply.
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