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GOVERNOR'S INDUSTRY APPRECIATION LUNCHEON HONOREE CRITERIA
- Company must be a relocation, startup, or new branch or have experienced
a major employee/physical expansion.
- The industry must be consistent with the Nevada State Plan for Economic
Diversification and Development and is not gaming, tourism, hospitality,
construction, medical, educational/training, wholesale or retail sales.
The company must be a business that creates primary jobs and whose primary
market extends beyond the State's border. Qualifying companies include:
MANUFACTURING: including mining, mining support, assembly, remanufacturing,
recycling, and value-added products
DISTRIBUTION: including traditional warehousing and e-commerce
SERVICE: including research and development, mining services, front
office operations, such as corporate, regional or divisional headquarters,
and back office operations, such as computer service centers, customer
service, Internet services, telemarketing, and claims, credit, order,
accounting and other processing offices
- In Clark or Washoe counties, a new company must expect to create
at least ten (10) new jobs within the first twelve(12) months of operation.
In the remaining areas of Nevada, the required number of jobs created
is reduced to six (6).
- To qualify as an expansion, companies must increase their primary
employment by at least twenty (20) percent of their total employment,
with a minimum of ten (10) new employees.
- The company must have located or expanded in the year immediately
prior to the lucheon and must actually be in operation by December 31
each year for southern Nevada companies or by June 30 each year for
northern Nevada companies.
- Companies must pass a rigid background check for compliance with
state law and regulations, good ethics and fair business practices,
and other attributes that classify them as good corporate citizens to
the State of Nevada.
NOMINATION PROCESS:
Nominations are accepted from regional organizations within the company's
area of location or the company itself. The state prescribed Honoree
Nomination Form must be completed in full and submitted by the specified
deadline indicated in the form. For further information or questions,
contact Menyone Thomas at the Nevada Commission on Economic Development
at [email protected]
or phone (702) 486-2700 / toll-free (800) 336-1600. |
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