Frontier Communications Corp. has inched toward triple digits with the number of workers it wants to hire at the company’s Conversation Center, 3301 Wayne Trace.
About two weeks ago, the Stamford, Conn., telecommunications firm said it needed to fill 70 positions, but on Tuesday, officials said the count had increased to 95. Originally, at least 50 of the openings were customer-retention jobs, while the remaining jobs were in business sales. The 25 additional positions are for billing representatives.
Frontier said it is has offered jobs to about 50 people already. Job seekers can apply at Frontier.com/careers. The pay range is $11 to $14.50 an hour.
Delta to add 3rd flight from city to Atlanta
Delta Air Lines plans to add a third flight between Fort Wayne International Airport and Atlanta, the carrier’s main hub, beginning March 2.
Dave Young, vice president of Air Service Development of the Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce, said in a news release that March is “traditionally a very strong month.”
Joe Esposito, Delta’s managing director, Domestic Network Planning, said the additional flight allows the carrier to offer “even more opportunities for convenient travel to destinations worldwide” through Atlanta.
Delta Connection partners Atlantic Southeast Airlines and Pinnacle Airlines will operate the service using 50-seat aircraft.
Erapsco lands $34 million contract
Erapsco Inc. has been awarded a $34 million contract to provide research, development and production engineering services in support of ongoing sonobuoy improvements. Sonobuoys are sensors that can search for and detect submerged submarines.
The Columbia City-based company will do 49 percent of the work in Columbia City and 51 percent in DeLeon Springs, Fla. A company official didn’t return phone messages Tuesday. It’s unclear whether the contract will lead to new jobs.
The contract, awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Maryland, is for indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity. The work is expected to be completed by November 2015, according to a Defense Department news release.
Novartis to eliminate 1,400 U.S. sales jobs
Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG said Tuesday it will eliminate 1,400 U.S. sales jobs by Jan. 1.
The company expects to take $85 million in one-time charges associated with the cuts. It did not say how much it expects to save.
Novartis said it has 6,449 employees in its U.S. general medicines business, meaning it will eliminate about 22 percent of the staff of that business. The company said it has 18,519 employees in the U.S. and about 100,000 worldwide.
E-reader costs factor in Barnes & Noble loss
Shares of Barnes & Noble Inc. fell sharply before rebounding on Tuesday after the bookseller reported a quarterly loss resulting from steep costs to develop its Nook e-reader and weak physical book sales.
The company also forecast holiday quarter net income below analyst expectations.
The company’s loss for the quarter that ended Oct. 30 was $12.6 million, or 22 cents per share, compared with $24 million, or 43 cents per share, a year earlier. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected a much smaller loss of 8 cents per share.
