Employer News

Max Jarman – Jun. 5, 2009
The Arizona Republic
Walmart, Arizona’s largest employer, plans to hire 1,300 people in Arizona this year to staff new and expanded stores and distribution facilities.
The company is hiring for a number of positions, including store management, pharmacists, human resource managers, customer service associates, cashiers and sales associates, among others. [...]

Business growth in the Greater Scottsdale Airpark area will bring another 13,000 jobs by 2020, most of them in professional, technical and financial services occupations, according to an updated economic study. The study also cited the need to redevelop older portions of the Airpark and recommended a shift toward more mixed-use developments to help [...]

Art Thomason – Jun. 2, 2009
The Arizona Republic
With a multibillion-dollar economic impact, the aerospace industry is the southeast Valley’s payroll leader, one of the region’s largest employers and a workplace for some of Arizona’s top research talent.
Collectively, Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa and Tempe are home to more than 200 private firms, a state university, [...]

Calif.-based company plans to add 150 jobs in city by end of year
by Angelique Soenarie – Apr. 30, 2009
Arizona Business Gazette

California-based SolFocus has expanded one of its global manufacturing sites to east Mesa and plans to quadruple its workforce by adding 150 jobs by the end of the year, officials said.
The facility, which opened [...]

Apr. 24, 2009 The Arizona Republic
Arizona’s largest water park is scheduled to open in mid-June in north Phoenix with thrilling water rides and yes, shade.
Wet ‘n’ Wild Phoenix will feature 30 slides on more than 35 acres in north Phoenix.
Wet ‘n’ Wild Phoenix, owned by the Village Roadshow, a Melbourne, Australia-based business, pumped $30 million [...]