Talbots at Surrey will add women's store
Specialty retailer Talbots Inc. announced Friday it will add a Talbots Woman store to its existing Talbots and Talbots Petites stores at Surrey Center.
The store, which will open March 6, will offer casual wear, business fashions, tailored sportswear and dressy separates made under Talbots' private label. The 2,100-square-foot store will have an opening day shopping reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m., with a drawing for gift cards at 7 p.m.
The Hingham, Mass.-based retailer operates 1,100 stores in the United States and Canada.
MCG Health decides to lay off 14 workers
MCG Health Inc. laid off 14 employees Friday as part of a "midyear course correction," a spokeswoman said.
"After seven months (of the fiscal year that began July 1), we were falling short of the budget targets," spokeswoman Deborah Humphrey said.
The company, which operates Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics, has about 3,200 employees, so the layoff is less than 1 percent of its work force, she said. The employees worked in the facilities services division.
Boeing loses contract on Air Force tankers
WASHINGTON --- In a stunning setback for The Boeing Co., Northrop Grumman Corp. and a European aerospace company won a $30 billion to $40 billion contract Friday to start replacing the aging fleet of Air Force aerial tankers.
The contract, announced by Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne, could be worth $100 billion as the Air Force replaces its fleet of roughly 530 mostly Eisenhower-era aerial tankers.
Boeing, which has built the Air Force tankers for the past half-century, had been heavily favored to win the competition.
-- From staff and wire reports
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