Looks like PETCO is bringing some jobs that are NOT call center-type (well maybe not all.)
San Antonio lures major PETCO support center with strong incentives package
SABJ - by W. Scott Bailey
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PETCO Animal Supply Inc., a leading national pet specialty retailer, says it will create a new satellite support center in San Antonio that will eventually employ up to 400 people.
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Castro says the company is expected to bring "significant, decision-making jobs" to San Antonio.
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Petco opening satellite HQ in S.A., bringing 400 jobs
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San Diego, Calif.-based Petco Animal Supplies Inc. will expand its headquarters to San Antonio next year, adding about 400 corporate jobs within three years, the company announced Monday at City Hall.
Petco will open its Satellite Support Center with about 100 employees, including several top executives, in June at 654 Richland Hills Drive in the Westpointe Corporate Center in Northwest San Antonio.
Between 40 to 80 employees are expected to move to San Antonio from the company's National Support Center in San Diego. As Petco's employment grows in San Antonio, the rest will be hired locally starting in 2011.
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There were a couple of hints to this in the last couple of months;
From Sept. 29th, 2010
S.A. wooing West Coast companies
by William Pack - EN
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San Antonio officials just back from a recruiting trip confirmed that the city is in the running to land at least one San Diego-based company by the end of the year. San Antonio also is expected to see three or four more corporate expansions before 2011.
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The newest California targets were thought to be biotechnology firms, but Hernandez said the company giving San Antonio a hard look works in another sector.
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and another from August 30th, 2010:
PETCO sniffing out home for 400 office jobs
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Petco is sniffing around North Texas for office space in a move that could eventually bring 400 jobs to the area.
The San Diego-based company is also considering San Antonio and Norman, Okla., for a back-office operations center, brokers familiar with the search said.
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The company might expand into as much as 100,000 square feet in the next few years and eventually move C-suite executives to North Texas, although a headquarters move is "a big maybe," the source said.
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In the last quote, change out North Texas for South Texas; this was in the Dallas Biz Journal