Friday, December 26, 2003
For the past month, rumors have been reported that Buffalo would be the site of Geico's next big service center. The prize: a projected 2,500 new jobs over the next ten years. The center will start with 300.
The jobs will include call center jobs, and higher-end positions like claims adjusters that pay between $30,000 and $70,000 per year and more than half of the jobs at the center will be for college graduates.
Buffalo had a major league cheerleader: Warren Buffet. Buffett's Berkshore Hathaway owns Geico, and Buffet loves Buffalo. (Indeed, Buffet thinks the center will reach the 2,500 job target in five years.) Read more.
Today in our history of innovation...
In 1865, James H. Mason of Franklin, MA received the first U.S. patent for a coffee percolator.
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Buffalo scores big
