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It could be a few months before YRC Worldwide Inc. can say how many new jobs are coming to Kansas City from a closing Ohio operation.
Jeff Rogers, president of YRC Inc., the Overland Park-based company’s (Nasdaq: YRCW) national less-than-truckload division, said in an interview Friday that officials still are trying to determine how to divide the 260 jobs affected by the sale of the former Roadway Corp. headquarters in Akron, Ohio.
YRC acquired the building as part of the 2003 merger of Yellow Corp. and Roadway.
Rogers said that 50 to 100 of the jobs will be eliminated and that another 50 to 100 will be relocated to other spots in Ohio. That leaves 50 to 100 being moved to locations outside the state, including the company’s Overland Park headquarters.“At the end of the day, there’s definitely going to be some jobs here in Kansas, but we don’t know how many,” he said, depending on such things as how duties are consolidated and how many Akron employees agree to relocate.
Other locations likely to get those jobs are in Des Moines and South Dakota........................
YRC waits to see whether Ohio closing brings jobs to KC - Kansas City Business Journal
Jeff Rogers, president of YRC Inc., the Overland Park-based company’s (Nasdaq: YRCW) national less-than-truckload division, said in an interview Friday that officials still are trying to determine how to divide the 260 jobs affected by the sale of the former Roadway Corp. headquarters in Akron, Ohio.
YRC acquired the building as part of the 2003 merger of Yellow Corp. and Roadway.
Rogers said that 50 to 100 of the jobs will be eliminated and that another 50 to 100 will be relocated to other spots in Ohio. That leaves 50 to 100 being moved to locations outside the state, including the company’s Overland Park headquarters.“At the end of the day, there’s definitely going to be some jobs here in Kansas, but we don’t know how many,” he said, depending on such things as how duties are consolidated and how many Akron employees agree to relocate.
Other locations likely to get those jobs are in Des Moines and South Dakota........................
YRC waits to see whether Ohio closing brings jobs to KC - Kansas City Business Journal