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HGS plans to boost hiring at new Jacksonville center
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Crossroads Distribution Center takes step forward
City issues building permit for speculative warehouse on Pritchard Road in Northwest Jacksonville.
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Hinduja Global Solutions HGS Chief Executive Officer Partha DeSarkar speaks at a ribbon-cutting for his company’s new offices at 6680 Southpoint Parkway. “This is the start of a relationship with Jacksonville,” said.
Company that offers customer assistance services says it plans to hire as many as 600 workers after gaining two new clients. BY DAVID CAWTON ASSOCIATE EDITOR
One of the area’s newest businesses already plans to expand its footprint in South Jacksonville.
At a ribbon-cutting Friday for its new customer service center at 6680 Southpoint Parkway, executives with Hinduja Global Solutions announced the company plans to add more jobs after already committing to hire 400 employees over the next few years. HGS specializes in global process management services for national and international clients. HGS Chief Executive Officer Partha DeSarkar said the Jacksonville office has hired about 250 employees since the company announced its expansion here
in September. “From what I know of the business that’s already coming through, we should be full pretty soon,” DeSarkar said. “This is the start of a relationship with Jacksonville.” Tim Schuh, the company’s North American president, said HGS hired its first Jacksonville employee Dec. 1 and since that time the company secured two new long-term contracts. “Based on that overwhelming
Miles River Partners was issued a permit Thursday to build its first Northwest Jacksonville project, which so far totals construction costs of at least $9.7 million. The 297,000-square-foot speculative warehouse, Crossroads Distribution Center, is going up at 6590 Pritchard Road, off of Interstate 295. Arco Design/Build Inc. is the contractor of the project at a job cost of $5.99 million. The permit is for the building shell. Tenant build-out will be done separately, although no tenant was announced. On Nov. 14, the city approved a permit for Arco Design/Build to clear and grade the 22-acre site and install utilities at a cost of $3.7 million. Principal Michael Bradley said previously that total hard construction costs for the first phase are anticipated at $12 million. He expects completion July 1.
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Alban is appointed president of Ring Power Corp. David Alban was appointed president of St. Augustine-based Ring Power Corp., assuming day-to-day leadership of the 57-year-old company. Randal Ringhaver remains chairman and CEO. Alban joined the company in 2001 and most recently was COO, a position he has held since 2015. Ring Power Corp. is North and Central Florida’s Cat — Caterpillar — dealer, comprising eight divisions.
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