International Business

Those AA batteries in your TV remote, alarm clock, smoke detector, and kid’s LeapFrog game most likely came from just outside Charlotte, North Carolina. In fact, every Duracell AA alkaline battery that’s sold in North America is made nearby in Lancaster, South Carolina — more than 1

Norfolk Southern Corp. broke ground Wednesday for its long-proposed Charlotte Regional Intermodal Facility at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

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The Charlotte Regional Partnership Charlotte Regional PartnershipLatest from The Business JournalsFollow this company wants to make sure the pipeline from Brazil remains open for jobs and U.S. headquarters facilities.

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A report released Tuesday by the Airports Council International showed Charlotte Douglas International Airport was the world’s sixth busiest airport in terms of takeoffs and landings last year.

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North Carolina will be home to the nation’s largest private fuel cell energy project, a nonpolluting, silent power plant that will generate electricity from hydrogen.

Apple (yes, that Apple) filed its plans with the N.C. Utilities Commission last week to build the 4.8-megawatt project in

Norfolk Southern Corp. Norfolk Southern Corp.Latest from The Business JournalsFollow this company and the city of Charlotte became business partners Wednesday, signing a lease that paves the way to add a freight center at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

The freight hub, known in the

Robert Bosch Tool Corp. will add 10 jobs to its Lincolnton facility as it spends $3.5 million to boost capacity there.

Bosch will spend most of the money on machinery for its abrasives business at the plant that’s been in Lincoln County for 35 years, says David Lee, Bosch’s Lincolnton packaging

Austin and San Jose led the United States in job growth last year, according to an analysis of the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics by Aaron Renn, who blogs as The Urbanophile. Houston, Charlotte, and Nashville round out the top five.

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Vahterus Oy, a Finland-based manufacturer, has opened a U.S. subsidiary in Matthews and plans to set up production here within three years.

The company makes welded plate heat exchangers primarily for the processing and chemical, refrigeration and energy industries. Vahterus Oy was founded in

It's not every day that the chief executive of 360,000-employee Siemens AG visits Charlotte (it has been four years) or that an employee is highlighted in the president's State of the Union address.

The twain met late Monday when Munich-based CEO Peter Löscher met Charlotte worker Jackie Bray,