With over 1,000 small business calling Garner, NC home, Garner runs on small businesses. Every year during Small Business - Economic Development Weeks, we band together with our economic development partners to recognize the Garner small business community and the great contributions they make to our town year round.

Garner high school students have a great new opportunity to attend Wake Tech thanks to a new scholarship endowment. The Garner Economic Development Corporation (GEDC) has established a $250,000 endowment with the Wake Tech Foundation which will provide scholarships to graduating seniors at Garner Magnet High School and South Garner High School who wish to further their education at Wake Tech.

Amazon Logistics has signed various leases in an effort to open two new delivery stations in the Triangle. The new stations will power Amazon’s last-mile delivery capabilities to speed up deliveries for customers in the Triangle. Each delivery station will create hundreds of full-time jobs, starting at $15 per hour and offering a variety of benefits from day one. We expect these new sites to open in 2021.

Join us for the Garner Business Resiliency Series - 4 weeks of free business webinars:

Nov 3: Cyber Security with Jay Strickland, CEO WingSwept
Nov 10: Dollars & Cents with Kevin Dick, CEO with Carolina Small Business Development Fund
Nov 17: Protect Your Investment - Active Shooter Training with Lt. Paul Caldwell, Garner Police Department
Nov 24: On the Ready with Matthew Poole, Chief of Garner Fire and Rescue

The partnership between The Garner Chamber of Commerce and The Downtown Garner Association launched its first round in April and awarded small grants to 34 local Garner businesses and non-profits totaling $48,000.

As the pandemic continues, the decision was made to do another round to help small businesses in and around Garner.

Hansae Co,. Ltd., a leader in the global apparel industry based in South Korea, will locate its first U.S. manufacturing operation in Greenfield North Business Park in Garner. Hansae’s Garner facility will focus on producing personal protective equipment (PPE) for the U.S. market.

A Garner-based startup company, Sanctuary Systems, is doing its part to help protect local employees against COVID-19.

Sanctuary Systems recently has pivoted its non-woven textiles company to produce face masks for companies in the Triangle area. The startup originally was spun out of North Carolina State University and still keeps its close ties with the NCSU Nonwoven Institute.