This mornings edition of The Daily Times - once again - helps to illustrate the differences in reporting styles between SBYnews verses The Daily Times.
You see folks - SBYnews has been keeping a tally on the dislocation of workers in our immediate area- unlike that of Governor O'Malley. So while our illustrious Governor O'Malley is down in Charlotte, NC blowing smoke up the "FANNIES" of the major networks - here at SBYnews we are helping to set the record straight.
Below - is a list for the exodus of businesses from our area - many of which exited under the O'Malley administration. So when O'Malley claims that the Obama administration created over 4 million jobs - we just wanted to set the record straight.
Under O'Malley and Obama's rule - our great State has lost an incredible amount of jobs. We hope that one of the major networks will catch wind of this so as to help keep America's eyes trained on the TRUTH.
Area Plant Closings - (Free Enterprise) - Wicomico, Worcester, Somerset, and Dorchester Counties
Business Identification Description No. of Unemployed
1. Sealy Upholster Company Unknown - best estimate 150+ employees 150
2. Field Container Corporation Unknown - best estimate 150+ employees 150
3. Dresser Industries/Haliburton 500 - 600 displaced workers. Facility moved to Austin, Texas
At production peak they employed over 1000 employees 600
4. Shawnee Homes Unknown - best estimate 150+ employees 150
5. Salisbury Engineering Unknown - moved entire operation to State of Delaware - just across State line
6. Heinemann Electric Unknown - previously located in Northwood Industrial Park, Naylor Mill Rd
7. Moore Business Forms 148 displaced workers. Factory announced closure on 07-27-94 148
Located in Snow Hill Maryland
8. Campbell Soup - Salisbury, Maryland 604 displaced workers. 604
9. Campbell Soup - Swanson Division 245 displaced workers - located in Pocomoke, MD 245
10. Campbell Soup - Mrs. Paul's Kitchen 200 displaced workers - located in Crisfield, MD 200
11. Montgomery Ward - Salisbury, MD 110 displaced workers - located Centre of Salisbury Mall 110
12. Gant Shirt Factory - Salisbury, MD 250 displaced workers - was 2nd largest shirt factory in the world 250
13. Jodi Shirt Company - Fruitland, MD 100 displaced workers - located in Fruitland, MD 100
14. Delmar Sportswear - Delmar, MD 90 displaced workers - located in Delmar, MD - owned by Pusey family 90
15. Ford Laboratory - Salisbury, MD 70 displaced workers - Salisbury, MD 70
16. Grumman Corporation - Salisbury, MD 401 displaced workers - employed 523 at peak production 401
17. Peninsula Press - Salisbury, MD 45 displaced workers 45
18. Preston Trucking Co. - Preston, MD unknown no. employees - filed for bankruptcy protection unknown
19. Chesapeake Bay Plywood - Pocomoke, MD 500 employees - plywwod plant shutdown, disassembled, moved to China 500
20. Ruddy Duck - Cambridge, MD 100 employees - factory shutdown unknown
21. Airpax Industries - Cambridge, MD 500 - (best estimate) at peak it employed 1500 - moved to Matamoris, Mexico 500
22. Service Merchandise - Salisbury, MD 50 employees - now Dove Point Facility - governmental entity 50
23. Purity Bacon - Salisbury, MD unknown - located South Divison Street - property purchased by college unknown
24. ES Adkins & Co. - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - Rt. 13, North Salisbury Blvd. - bldgs. Extensively leased by government unknown
25. Masten Home Center - Fruitland, MD unknown no. employees - Rt. 13, South Salisbury Blvd unknown
26. IMS - (MVP.com) - Salisbury, MD 40 - 50 employees - WBOC reporting - Old Campbell Soup bldg. & Lake Street 50
27. Powellville Garment Factory - Powellville, MD 100 - (best estimate) - closure announced 02/2001 100
28. Food Depot - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - last store to exodus Old Mall unknown
29. Ames - Fruitland, MD unknown no. employees - announced closure 11-14-2001 unknown
30. Ames - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - announced closure 11-14-2001-(Rt 50 & Tilghman Road) unknown
31. Central Tractor - Fruitland, MD unknown no. employees - announced closure 01-14-02 unknown
32. Nanticoke Homes - Greenwood, DE unknown no. employees - announced closure 07-15-02 unknown
33. Crown, Cork & Seal - Fruitland, MD unknown no. employees - announced closure 01-14-02 unknown
34. Stoney Point Decoy Factory - Crisfield, MD 35-40 employees at peak, DT reporter - Cording 45
35. Tyson Foods - Berlin, MD 600 employees - announced closure 04-19-03 600
36. Black & Decker - Easton, MD 1400 employees - announced closure 04-29-03 - announced plant move to Brazil & Mexico 1400
37. Pine Country Corp. - Pocomoke, MD 35 employees - DT reported 10-26-03 - operations ceased 09/03 35
38. Chesapeake Hardwood Mill - Princess Anne,MD 40 employees - Peggy Neck Road - closed 2002 40
39. Salisbury Steel Products Inc. 35 employees - closed 08-03 - Boundary Street, Salisbury, MD 35
40. True Value Hardware - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - announced closure 03-04 0 Isabella Street, Salisbury, MD unknown
41. Office Max - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - announced closure 02-04 - Rt. 13 North unknown
42. Helovet Pharma - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - announced closure 03-05 - Northwood Industrial Park unknown
43. Giant Food - Salisbury, MD 75 employees - announced closure 03-05 - Rt. 13 North 75
44. Super Deep Discount - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - announced closure 10-26-06 - Old Montgomery Wards site unknown
45. JV Wells, Inc. - Sharptown, MD Over 100 employees - many ancillary businesses-(indep. loggers - was MD's largest timber Co. 100
46. Nanticoke Seafood - Nanticoke, MD Was owned by Booth Fisheries, Rich Sea Pak, and most recently by Cape May Canners unknown
47. Islandic Seafood - Cambridge, MD 300 employees layed off 03-07, additional 122 laid off by end of 2007 422
48. Brunswick - Bayliner/Maxum - Salisbury, MD 180 employees - closed 2008 - moved operations to North Carolina spurred by tax incentives 180
49. Americhem Inc. - Salisbury, MD 30 employees - announced closure 10-23-07 - Northwood Industrial Park 30
50 Powerwave Technology - Salisbury, MD 100 employees, at peak employeed 300 - facilities sold to Tri County Council - (local gov. 2009) 100
51. Oddi Atlantic - Salisbury, MD 70 employees - closed 09-26-08 - (reported by DT rep. Gwenn Garland) - Owned by Iceland Co 70
52. Invista Plant - Seaford, DE 400 employees - subs. of Kansas based Koch Industries - (former DuPont Nylon plant) 10/08 400
53. Boscov's - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employee displacements/announced bankruptcy filing 08-04-08 - Salisbury spared unknown
54. Circuit City - Salisbury, MD 30 employees - anouncedclosure 01-12-09 - Rt. 13, N. Salisbury 30
55. Bob Smith Automotive - Easton, MD unknown no. employees - closure 03-09 - GM Dealer with another site in Federalsburg, MD unknown
56. Schaefer & Strohminger - Cambridge, MD unknown no. employees - closure slated for 04-30-09 - GM, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep Dealer unknown
57. Boater's World - Salisbury, MD 15 employees Salisbury store - 75 employees/Denton, MD - closure announced 04/09 15
58. Saturn of Salisbury - Salisbury, MD 15 employees - announced closure 05-01-09 - North Salisbury, Rt 13 15
59. Waterman's Restaurant - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed doors on 04-29-09 - building vacant on Snow Hill unknown
60. Second National Savings & Loan 500 employees - headquarted at Phillip Morris Dr. & Rt. 50 - Salisbury 500
61. Burke Equipment - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - moved operations to Delmar, DE unknown
62. Jacks Religious Gift Shop - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 01-2010 - Snow Hill Road, Salisbury, MD unknown
63. Superfresh - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 08-11 - College Avenue, Salisbury, MD unknown
64. Atlantic Bookstore - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 03-11 - N. Salisbury, Rt 13 unknown
65. The Gospel Shop - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 12-11 - S. Salisbury Blvd, Rt 13 - (Old Montg. Ward site) unknown
66. Shiela's Craft & Party World - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 12-11 - S. Salisbury Blvd, Rt 13 unknown
67. Benedict the Florist - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 11-11 - S. Salisbury Blvd., Rt 13 unknown
68. 84 Lumber - Fruitland, MD unknown no. employees - closed 11-11 - S. Salisbury Blvd., Rt 13 unknown
69. 84 Lumber - Pocomoke, MD unknown no. employees - closed 11-10 - Rt. 13 South, Pocomoke, MD unknown
70. Southern States - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 2008 - Rt. 13, S Salisbury Blvd. unknown
71. Southern States - Pocomoke, MD unknown no. employees - closed 2008 - Rt. 13, Pocomoke, MD unknown
72. Allied Building Products - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 06-11 - Moss Hill Lane, Salisbury, MD unknown
73. The Bike Shope - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 12-11 - N. Salisbury Blvd, Salisbury, MD unknown
74. The Sunroom Store - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 11-11 - moved to Berlin, MD unknown
75. Tex Mex Restaurant - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 2007 - Centre of Salisbury Mall unknown
76. Shoreland Freezers - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - site purchased by college & bldg. bulldozed - 2008 unknown
77. Acme - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - Twilley Center - closed 2007 unknown
78. Pani Pit Pizza - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - N. Salisbury - closed 11-2011 unknown 79. Mombo Italiano - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 12-2011 unknown
80. Checkers - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 09-20111 unknown
81. Rugged Warehouse - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed 10-2011 - located next to Target, N. Salisbury unknown
82. Salisbury Office Supply - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - closed and building taken over by county election - Bateman St. unknown
83. Barn None - Salisbury, MD unknown no. employees - Snow Hill Road, Salisbury - closed 11-2011 unknown
Displaced Workers 8605
Lost Income Tax Base Due To Local Business Closures - (Conservative Estimate as many of Wicomico's lost employee count are unknown).
The actual lost income tax base could very well be double the 8605 number.
8605 x$28,015 = $241,069,075 Gross Income by wikepedia.org for Wicomico County
8605 x $806.47 (Wicomico Local Tax) = $6,939,674 Wicomico Local Income Tax Base
8605 x $1,040 (Maryland Income Tax) = $10,181.522 Maryland Tax Base
Publishers Notes: There some additions to this list. We'll try to update you in the next few days.
62 comments:
O'Malley distorts everything he says. Who would be dumb enough to believe anything O'Malley or Obama says?
Grumann became Harvard Custom Manufacturing then Safran Labinal. Employees about 1000 employees currently. Not exactly shut down.
To 11:02 posting - I believe you have missed the bigger point. Look at the bottom of the article and it shows that we have lost 8,605 jobs. These are confirmed job losses. The actual number could be double that as some of the job closures does not list all of those that have been laid off.
I would classify this as an economic disaster by any standard - and that is putting it mildly.
Dresser and Campbell's happened under Reagan.
To Joe Albero CEO - SBYnews.
My advice is 'stay ye prepared' because one of the major networks is most likely going to contact you after they pick-up on this key information.
The job closure information is the most compelling information I have seen to date. I know most of these businesses as I have lived here all of my life and I can really relate to those former industries. It is a sin for our State to have allowed this to happen.
Looks like Ehrlich is as much to blame if not more than O'Malley.
Unions have done much of this damage.
Some members so proud of how they shut down Dresser Wayne they still brag about it. Idiots.
Good god almighty - where did you get this information. I recognise most of these businesses. But when you actually see them listed it is staggering. No wonder our City & County coffers are depleted.
Obama, O'Malley, Pollitt and Ireton all say: Blame it on Bush!
omally distorts everything. He was on cspan recently spouting off to some liberal professor from CA about how many jobs he created in MD in the "research and development" field. The liberal professor in a nutshell told omally that jobs in the reasearch and deveolpement field didn't mean crap. The look on omalley's face was to die for. he looked like he had just eaten a hugh pile of crap after the slap down he got from the liberal professor.
I could be missing part of the point, but many of these businesses were gone long before Omalley or Obama came along. Still, the list is compelling. It doesn't make the problem any better but seems both sides know how to 'distort' the numbers. In some cases, private locally owned business has been run down by large national corporations.
Regardless of political belief, there is no good job market here on the shore. The only industry worth mentioning is poultry and there are only so many of those jobs to go around. Construction doesn't happen without other jobs to create the need for it. Manufacturing seems to run for the border all too often.
"Unknown number of employees" for the majority of those listed. That really helps to paint a detailed picture. This list really proves nothing.
keep posting this as a reminder to all regarding the toll it's taken on our area. to see it listed this way is the best way to see the true picture. most of us remember these businesses and those relatives, friends and neighbors who worked there. the daily times just doesn't get how reporting should be done. before long the print media will be only a memory.
Just like obama, he has to lie because the truth doesn't back up his communist agenda.
The company I used to work for here in Salisbury (Construction) had 35 employees seven years ago. Now they have 9. And they are NOT alone!
Nanticoke Seafood , 100+ employees
moved to NJ 2005-2006.
Building is still not occupied and a falling down. Friends of the Nanticoke River insured that a wastewater lic. was issues to this NJ owner. He has let this place go and it is unsafe and an eye sore.
Whenb they closed it was a muli-million dollar business with a large profit margin ,of course the absentee owner didn't trust anyone , so he moved it.
so why dont you add the new businesses that have been created for a more truthful story
"Anonymous said...
The company I used to work for here in Salisbury (Construction) had 35 employees seven years ago. Now they have 9. And they are NOT alone!
September 3, 2012 12:44 PM"
This is common in this area as is employees agreeing to scale back their hours as to prevent layoffs.
To 11:22 Posting
I to will be surprised if FOX, CBS, NBC, or ABC doesn't attempt to touch base with Joe and SBYnews about these stats.
The facts speak for themselves and most all of SBYnews readers knows full well where these businesses were located. Most of the former business locations have been replaced by government entities like the Tri County Council building, Salisbury State University, Wicomico Elections office, etc. So instead of government downsizing in this recesssion what do they do - expand. Shame on you Obama, shame on you O'Malley. It is inevitable - the system will implode as the current infrastructure is unsustainable.
For the private citizens out there - we should sue O'Malley for diverting 324 million dollars of the ARRA stimulus funding to fund the school teachers pensions. This is outright blatant misappropriation of taxpayers money. What possible stimulus could be realized out of this misappropriation of funding. I am quite sure the Courts will agree with the taxpayers on this issue.
No wonder all these businesses have moved out of here - I don't blame them.
wow, if we balanced our check book like you have in this article we would always be in the red, good thing we have a column for deposits and not just debts
O'Malley has killed more jobs than he has created with more taxes and more regulation. I don't know if he is really that stupid or if he just wants to impress the Obama administration. He can't really believe the garbage that he talks about.
There is a lot of construction going on right now such as The Orchard, but most of the employees are out of town and out of state. That tired mantra of creating jobs in Salisbury doesn't count because the citizens of Salisbury aren't benefiting from the jobs. The extra apartments will bring in more outsiders placing a burden on City services such as Police, Fire, EMS, Public Works, Roads, etc. Growth does not pay for growth. It costs tax dollars and it is a burden on the city.
Pointless list. Many closed decades ago. I suppose in all that time there have been no new businesses coming to the area? None at all? Not one?
all governor's should have to take and pass drug test's!!
of course we must remember some of these businesses were of the "union variety"; hence the closings. but that's obama's playground. he loves the unions. this is why he's clueless and useless.
bottom line NO JOBS in this climate and under this administration. we have no choice but to fire him and get leadership that understands how to create jobs in the private sector. november 6th can't come soon enough...
Most of these companies died long before the Obama Administration became elected. This area/peninsula is not a business orientation area. I don't blame O'Malley or Obama. I blame the very voters who vote for people who do not have the middle class or poor best interest. You all need to look at yourselves for the downfall of business in this area. You guys keep voting for thses fools. This area is a peninsula. Not even an island. And, politically, you guys have yet to get it right. People are suffering and I blame the voters. Just check out the going on in Salisbury/Wicomico County administration. Blame yourselves for the mess.
Where is Ireton on this Labor Day?
Partying at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC. No doubt using vacation days paid for by the taxpayer.
Laura Mitchell is down there too.
Don't blame Erlich. Yes, some of these closing did happen before omalley's watch but the blame lies entirely on MD democratic stronghold in the state house and the senate. Erlich was contantly and consistantly obstucted by the democrats
Joe:
This list of closures cannot be attributed to O'Malley. Some can't be attributed to any elected officials -- for example stores like the "Food Depot" left the old mall because it had become derelict after others relocated to the new mall over 20 years ago when it opened.
Others were failing or went belly-up due to bad management.
It is posts like this that make many people doubt your bona-fides, both as a blogger and as a candidate for mayor.
Hilarious, headline mentions Distorted figures. This list dates WAY back! Talk about distortion.
To 1:26 p.m.
I just sent all of the parties listed below a link to SBYnews Job Closure List article:
1. Bill O'Reilly, FOX
2. Sean Hannity, Fox
3. Greta Van Sustern, Fox
I to will be surprised if they don't send an entire cast crew down here to expose this publicly. In my estimation - this is a black eye for all Marylanders - particularly the eastern shore.
Reference 2:28 PM Posting
Pointless - what planet are you from. You are probably one of those O'Malley cohorts that helped to run some of these businesses out of here. Pointless - I think not. The lost income tax revenues alone is a startling revelation.
ALL of these happened because MD is anti-business! This is a dumbocratic norm. And, our county has been just as bad (Wicomico) for over 20 years making it more difficult to do business. With the JUMBOcrat we have now, it has gotten worse and will continue to be. He's another idiot in a suit, with no business sense.
Someone needs to be held accountable in light of the listed closures. I know this to be the truth because I to have lived here all of my life. But I never realized that so many have fled our area until I stumbled on this article this morning.
SBYnews - you are to be commended for publishing this information. I'll be you the status quo will be sweating profusely in trying to hide this information.
2:28 Yes, nearly all SERVICE RELATED jobs, located on Rt13 have replaced good, high paying jobs. The unions have helped in this departure too. It isn't just the p-poor democratic leadership in our state and local governments. But it is all related to democrats. Not good for business.
Joe - it is said a picture is worth a thousand words - and this is one of those times. Not only the job closure list but also the vacant chair.
I hope you truly win the Mayoral election as this is devastating for any community to endure. And to think that our Mayor is down there in Charlotte showboating when people here in Salisbury are suffering from being under employed. I hope Ireton is removed from office after reading this information. Salisbury deserves better.
Dresser and Campbell soup closed under another liberal Glendenning.
I find this information to be incredible.
Where did you get this list? This is an excellent piece of journalism. I had no idea of our localities exposure until I read this article this morning.
If the national media were to ever get a hold of this information they will be all over it. And Ohio thinks that they have been devastated - wait till see this list.
To 11:16. I missed nothing. I was simply correcting an error. Do you know these numbers to be hard facts ?? I didn't think you did.
As Reverend Wright would say;
'The chickens have come home to roost'
Maybe now we'll soon see the wrath of the voters as they turn on the scoundrels who contributed to this mess. I hope that O'Malley, Miller, Busch, Conway, Cane, will soon get the message loud and clear.
Add HBCS to the list on Oct 1, 2012
11:18, I am 21 years of age, and I was born after the reagan years, and campbell soup was still up and running when I was little. Also dresser was still running. Joe, what about the cadmus industries that was in Easton. They had upwards of 450 employees right before they closed in 2009. They were formerly waverly presses. The business was started in 1949, then closed in 2009.
I hope SBYnews keeps the article posted front-and-center through the whole DNC convention.
As bad as the 'odor' it is sometimes necessary in order to effect change. Just like when ammonia is sometimes used to awaken a person from unconsciousness - posting of these stats should do the same. Our elected officials should be cautious because there is nothing here for you to be touting about.
Great article sbynews.
I just saw O'Malley on the news in Charlotte, NC being interviewed by Bob Schieffer. He is now touting on national TV that Obama's job generation performance record as being exemplary.
I am not joking - you must see it for yourself. This Governor is so out of touch with reality - just look at the job closure list. I know this business closure information to be true because I recognize almost all of those businesses that are listed.
Joe the timing of this article is impeccable as it is a RAPID RESPONSE to the DNC convention.
O'Malley, Biden, Axlerod and other DNC cohorts are now trying to re-write history. In light that the Obama administration now has a track record - they are trying to erase the job data.
I am almost certain someone from the national media is going to contact you regarding dissemination of this important information. These are actual factual closures and as much as I would like deny it - they are real and true. You really deserve a Pulitzer Prize as your timing could not have been better.
Businesses out.
Section 8 housing in.
See where this is going?
Campbell, Gant, Dresser, Ames, Crown Cork & Seal, Montgomery Ward, and Peninsula Press were under another leader.
5:37 Posting - you obviously are not from around here. These are all hard facts as I remember each of the businesses that are shown on that list. I have lived in Wicomico County for 62 years and I remember all of these and a few more. We used to have somewhat of a private industry economy - before our nation went socialist. Now - all that has changed we are on the verge of imploding. If you can't see it then you need to take off your blinders. The system is out of control and now feeding on itself as there is no reduction in our deficit. It is what your college professor often calls a no-brainer.
Little O' just like his liberal buddy Big O'. Both blowing up smoke on national TV, while companies are going out of bussines and people loosing jobs. Just say No To O' in November
Benedicts closed because they sold that corner for more than a million bucks. Poor, poor Benedicts. Believe me I know $$$$
I just sent a link to Rush Limbaugh's EIB network for the SBYnews article.
I to am certain that we are going to hear more about these massive factory closings in the very near future.
There is 64 days left until the election. As Clint Eastwood said - sometimes you have to just get rid of them.
4:38 PM
What makes you think they care?
Great article.Unless I missed something,every closing was within a 50 mile radius.I wonder how many more are barely hanging on?
Remember the car franchises that were here at one time (I know you mentioned Saturn but the "new" kind of car company wasn't such a good plan from the beginning). VW/Audi....(Lawrence), Acura (Good News), BMW (Cavanaugh), Iveco truck (Cavanaugh) and I think there was one more...maybe someone else remembers. I think that even though these buisnesses were lost over the years and through many different administrations there is a trend that is very apparent.
Distortions and lies
Oh surprise, surprise.
The Os ...two peas in a pod
Navtrak, Inc on northwood was closed, displaced about 100 workers total.
7:39 --
Benedict's had lost most of their customers to competitors, like the Harris market and the r place that sells plants on Eastern Shore Drive, various florists and How Sweet It Is. As you point out they got an offer that they could not (in their right minds) refuse for thier spot on Route 13. Hard to blame that closing on anyone but the competition and CVS.
This post grossly distorts reality by putting the blame on Obama for things that can't be attributed to him.
Creating government jobs insead of allowing small businesses to thrive does not count!
....or corporate cronyism in the form of regulations and excessive fees which the truly small business owner cannot afford is rampant under MD's on going democratic control of the statehouse.
Like for instance the MD Dept of the Environment is committed to running out the true family farms. Big Argibusiness is behind this as to run out any competitors. They lobby for regulation as a way to get around the anti trust laws.
Unless this stops the country will be run by a few big corporations.
Vote Romney/Ryan. Ryan is a huge supporter of small business and has fought against crony capitalism his entire political career.
To these we can add about a hundred good-paying jobs at Perdue corporate headquarters. Granted some of that was due to mismanagement in one of the departments (or an intentional move towards outsourcing) - but the state of the state is the major contributor.
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