7/29/09

1,000

About 1,000 employees will lose their jobs as a huge…cigarette plant closes in Concord.


 


…the plant was to stop production about 9 p.m. Wednesday.


 


Cabarrus County's jobless rate was approaching 12 percent in June, the highest rate in at least 25 years. Philip Morris is the county's biggest taxpayer.


 


Philip Morris plant in Concord to make last cigarettes tonight


Associated Press, July 29, 2009

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